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Sector: Congresses
14 May 2020
ICCA Middle East Conversations: Virtual Chapter Meeting
Let’s get together and revisit ICCA’s past predictions on the meetings industry and compare top tips on crisis management from 2003 and 2020. Join us on 14 May 2020 at 11:30-12:30 (GST).
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20 May 2020
ICCA Asia Pacific Conversations: Virtual Chapter Meeting
If there’s one positive to come out of COVID-19, it’s the focus on our people – and the importance of staying in touch. When there’s still a lot of uncertainty, we are still focused on uniting everyone in the ICCA community to exchange information and stand together while far apart. The ICCA Asia Pacific Chapter Committee is…
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20 May 2020
ICCA African Conversations: Virtual Chapter Meeting
Over the past weeks, ICCA has been shifting from live meetings to online meetings, facilitating what we do best: sharing knowledge, business and developing global relationships. The next ICCA African Chapter meeting will be a virtual meeting via Zoom scheduled for Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 10:00 AM CET.
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20 May 2020
ICCA North American Conversations: Virtual Chapter Meeting
This Virtual Chapter Meeting will be an opportunity for us to come together and hear updates regarding the major concerns and measures impacting our industry during the COVID19 crisis from each of our three countries in the NA Chapter. We will also take time to hear from multiple Chapter members regarding new-found solutions or practices which…
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Business Events and the Future of the City
As the world’s population grows, the percentage of people living in cities is rising steadily. The future success of humanity is therefore more and more tied to, and even defined by, the future success of the city as a model. In that, of course, business events have a critical role to play. Professor Greg Clark has…
Australia: Leadership in Business Events
Australia’s business events landscape is surveyed here in a rich collection of articles. BESydney’s Lyn Lewis-Smith, ICC Sydney’s Geoff Donaghy, ACC’s Simon Burgess, MCEC’s Peter King, Brisbane Marketing’s Juliet Alabaster, plus the team behind JMIC’s (the Joint Meetings Industry Council’s) case studies, all offer up viewpoints. From Meetings International…
Durban ICC: Legacies in Sustainability
When President Nelson Mandela opened the Durban ICC in 1997, it was South Africa’s first international convention centre. It has since then been voted “Africa’s Leading Meetings and Conference Centre” by the World Travel Awards no fewer than seventeen times. But some of the venue’s greatest legacies lie in environmental sustainability. From Boardroom…
The DMMO COVID-19 Continuity Checklist
In 2017 Iceberg partner European Cities Marketing, in partnership with Toposophy, published eight bold statements in The Future of DMOs: The ECM Manifest that set out a vision for what DMOs (destination marketing organisations) could and should become. The final of these statements warned of ‘‘The New Normal’’, a world in which ‘‘crises of every kind have…
COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard (April 20th – 23rd)
COVID-19 has disrupted many things, including our sense of time. While the period of quarantining might seem interminable, our current reality and attempts to plan for the future have never been more fluid. The business events landscape used to take months and months to change. With the pandemic, it changed overnight and continues to evolve,…
COVID-19: Business Events Recovery Sentiment Survey
Working jointly with the Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP), PR agency Davies Tanner created a short survey of the UK events industry, designed to assist venues, destinations and other key sector suppliers in planning recovery activity after the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey is designed to provide a snapshot of sentiment across the UK business…
Coronavirus: Eventprofs Unite for the Fight
In the weeks since the coronavirus outbreak has ravaged the industry, event professionals right across the globe have been uniting in the fight against the pandemic. Competitors have grouped together to provide expertise where most needed, like Live for Life and Go LIVE Together in the US, and also Events4Covid19 in Portugal. From EventMB…
Coronavirus: UK Sector Sees September Restart
38 percent of the UK events industry believes enquiries and bookings will start to surge back in September. So says the recently published Business Events Sentiment survey, created by PR agency Davies Tanner with the Business Visits & Events Partnership. 556 sector professionals across the UK contributed. From Meetings & Incentive Travel…
Coronavirus: Azerbaijan Standardises Hygiene
In a move sure to be replicated across all destination marketing, the Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB), partnering with the country’s State Tourism and Food Safety Agencies, has launched SAHMAN (Sanitation and Hygiene Methods and Norms). PwC is to audit the initiative, which will cover all aspects of tourism. From Meetings International…
Coronavirus: ASAE Aid Plea Gains Ground
Another round of coronavirus relief has been passed by the US Congress without the inclusion of professional and trade groups. But there are signs that legislators are now aware of the need to widen out eligibility to such non-profits. Iceberg partner ASAE and thousands of other associations have been pressing the case. From Associations Now…
Coronavirus: Expo 2020 Delay Agreed
Expo 2020 Dubai’s postponement will allow time to reflect on how to improve people’s lives after current COVID-19 challenges subside. So says Dimitri Kerkentzes, Secretary General of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which has in principle agreed to postponing the event until 2021. An official vote will complete on May 29th. From Meetings International…
Coronavirus: Australia’s AU$35.7bn Event Losses
Australia’s economy is on course to lose AU$35.7 billion in direct spend over the next twelve months, while nearly all business events scheduled for 2020 are cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19. That’s according to latest figures from the Business Events Council of Australia. 92,000 industry job losses are expected. From CIM Business Events…
Coronavirus: Survey Reports on Layoffs
Meeting Professionals International has published the first results of an ongoing industry survey. 58 percent of respondents said that employees at their organisation have now been furloughed or made redundant. The suppliers have been hit the hardest, with 76 percent of staff furloughed (42 percent) or laid off (34 percent). From Association Meetings International…
IMEX Group Announce PlanetIMEX Platform
Iceberg partner IMEX Group has announced the creation of a virtual experience featuring 3D interactive islands called PlanetIMEX. Launching on May 6th, the platform will offer free access to a variety of industry content on community, education and networking islands, the first two available on the launch date. From Meetings & Incentive Travel…
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