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The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Events

Attendease

With many global events being canceled due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, event managers are looking for solutions like Attendease as an alternative to bring in-person events online. With so much fear and uncertainty around, many event producers are considering alternatives to running in-person events.

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Tarsus Group celebrates a return to live B2B events in China

Event Industry News

Tarsus, the global B2B media group, has announced that it has successfully delivered six exhibitions over the course of just five weeks in China – a key territory for the business where it is one of the largest exhibition organisers in operation.

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How Global Event Planners Need to Think About China’s Secondary Cities

Skift

The W Xi'an in northwest China is shown here. Marriott International Skift Take: China has become a hot spot for global business travel and its secondary cities are evolving to accommodate larger conferences and conventions. What should event planners know? Marriott has a joint venture with Alibaba.

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Global events management and engagement agency Live Group announces growth in APAC with appointment of Dwirt J. Ang as Commercial Director 

Prestige Events Magazine

Ang joins events management and engagement agency Live Group from global market intelligence firm IDC, bringing with him a wealth of experience in international account management spanning across key markets in North America, Hong Kong, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.

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World’s largest exhibitions operator says physical events to return this year, as vaccine hopes spark recovery in consumer confidence

Event Industry News

Shares in Informa rose almost 2% on Wednesday, after the world’s biggest exhibition operator said that 2021 is likely to be a year of “return of physical events,” as hopes of COVID-19 vaccines spark a recovery in consumer confidence. That compares with a profit of £933 million a year earlier. Revenue is set to reach more than £1.6

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Event Heroes: How SEMrush is Building a Global Events Brand

Bizzabo

Each month we interview an events professional who is breaking the mold. This month we spoke with Aleksandra Panyukhina—Head of Event Marketing at SEMrush—about unifying a global events brand, leveraging events for every step of the funnel and tracking event ROI. Tailoring events to the buyer's journey.

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Globex update: Global exhibitions market to contract by c.70% in 2020

Event Industry News

This forecast is the only analysis that measures the direct impact of Covid-19 on the global exhibitions organising market. AMR’s methodology has focused on three factors – event cancellations, event postponements and the contraction of events. 70% contraction. Globex 2020 is available to pre-order up until 1 November.

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