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What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

Smart Meetings

Read More : Well-being, Exciting Food and Natural Beauty: Experiential Incentives in Asia South Korea: Visit California Global Managing Director in South Korea Irene Lee reported that the market there is fully recovered and airlift is higher than it has ever been to California. What Germans really want is to be where no one else is.

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The Many Faces of South Korea

PCMA Convene

Business and leisure travelers go to South Korea for many reasons: shopping, beaches, intoxicating culture and historical sites, or some-times just to eat. Jutting into the Sea of Japan, South Korea is cut off from mainland Asia by its closed northern half, North Korea, meaning that everyone needs to travel in and out by air or sea.

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Calling for a Regenerative Business Events Industry

PCMA Convene

The world has the tools and knowhow required to limit warming and secure a liveable future, but it is time to act, said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee, a professor who researches the economics of climate change, energy, and sustainable development at Korea University Graduate School of Energy and Environment in Seoul. “We A World on Fire’.

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The Meetings Show to reunite the sector

Event Industry News

Korea Tourism Organisation, VisitDenmark and Gibraltar Tourist Board are just a handful of the international destinations ready to help planners find the perfect location for their next meeting or event while a large number of UK destinations, including Conference Leeds, Meet Leicester and London Convention Bureau will be doing the same.

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The Consumer Blockchain: Is it an Enabler of Business Growth?

Management Events

Being able to scan a QR code to see the product’s entire supply chain to verify if everything the business claims is true, especially with a business’ sustainability practices, is useful. There is a great project that is already live in South Korea. Next, sustainability and traceability.

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7 Ways that Travel Changed in 2017

SmartMeetings

New security regulations have made it difficult or impossible for people from North Korea, Venezuela and six countries with predominantly Muslim populations—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—to travel to the United States. Navigating Multiple Travel Bans. meetings as long as the ban exists.

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How To Market to Global Audiences

PCMA Convene

As a result, some organizers have begun investing more in international marketing as a way to achieve sustained growth for their domestic events. As examples, in China, the most popular search engine is Badu; it’s Naber in South Korea, and Yandiz in Russia. Over the past several years, U.S. Each has its own optimization criteria.