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Event Sustainability Live Goes Stateside

Event Industry News

Event Sustainability Live (ESL) announces its inaugural edition in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of Event Tech Live, set to take place on May 1-2, 2024, at The Expo WMCLV.

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How IMEX Frankfurt Answered Critical Questions for a Sustainable Event

Smart Meetings

IMEX initiatives and efforts in this domain may provide inspiration and a roadmap of ideas for those teams seeking to apply practices in their own conferences, meetings and events. Carbon accounting is inherently different than other components of an event’s environmental footprint. A Place to Start. Getting Centralized.

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A New Hot Button for Sustainable Events: Water Usage

MeetingsNet

Proposed water restrictions in big meeting and incentive destinations underscore the need for planners to research conservation strategies at host properties as part of their sustainability efforts. Earth Day has come and gone, but the environmental issues affecting the meetings and events industry are persistent and shifting.

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Focus on Sustainability at Largest IMEX America Yet

Smart Meetings

She positioned the show as a bellwether event, offering a picture of business volume and pipelines that could be realized in 2023 and beyond. The People and Planet track will highlight tangible steps meeting professionals can take to reduce their events’ carbon footprints. See the report from IMEX America 2011 here ).

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Focus on Sustainability at Largest IMEX America Yet

Smart Meetings

She positioned the show as a bellwether event, offering a picture of business volume and pipelines that could be realized in 2023 and beyond. The People and Planet track will highlight tangible steps meeting professionals can take to reduce their events’ carbon footprints. See the report from IMEX America 2011 here ).

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TWT: Mirage Isn’t Closing…Yet

Smart Meetings

Yesterday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board unanimously recommended to the Nevada Gaming Commission that it approve Hard Rock International’s licensure and acquisition of The Mirage Hotel & Casino.”. Sustainability: IATA Teams with Travalyst, Radisson Joins GSTC. Radisson Joins Global Sustainable Tourism Council.

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Vegas-to-L.A. High-Speed Train Coming by 2028

MeetingsNet

A trip that will take just over two hours brings new possibilities for increasing meeting attendance in both cities—and for offering more pre- and post-event opportunities. government, while a group of legislators from California and Nevada wrote a letter to the U.S. billion loan from the U.S. It will be a remarkable showcase.”

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