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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.

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

Event Industry News

Florent Jarry, Head of AMR’s Global Events Practice says, “The pandemic is having a devastating impact across the global exhibitions market. However, the situation does vary strongly by country, with China and Brazil respectively least and worst hit. 70% contraction. UFI members receive a 20% discount.

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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.

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AMR launches Exhibition Recovery Tracker

Event Industry News

This new initiative provides a monthly quantitative view of how face-to-face exhibition activity is recovering across 15* major exhibition markets, by comparing it to pre-COVID event activity. We found speaking with organisers and investors there was a gap in how to pinpoint recovery movements within the exhibitions industry.

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