Continuing a strong tradition of giving back to the local community in each host destination, delegates at the 57th ICCA Congress in Dubai raised a total of €5,555 and collected 591 pairs of glasses for local blindness prevention charity Noor Dubai Foundation through a number of initiatives.
Dubai Business Events (DBE), the city’s official convention bureau, secured a total of 261 successful bids for meetings, conferences and incentives in 2018, which are set to attract an additional 153,640 delegates to Dubai over the coming years.
Team FMCCA very proud with the achievement of its CCO Anja Stas
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Only four years after joining the meeting industry Anja Stas, CCO of Flanders Meeting and Convention Center Antwerp, joins the ICCA board as co-chair for the Sector Venues. She was elected with a vast majority of the votes.
PCMA has committed to combat child exploitation by signing The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism. In partnership with ECPAT-USA, The Code is the only voluntary set of business principles that companies and organizations in the travel, business travel and tourism industries can implement to prevent and eradicate the trafficking and exploitation of children.
In this final chapter of ESAE's regular segment, Chloe Menhinick shares with HQ about event legacy planning, differentiated stakeholder engagement & converging the offline & online experiences, and embracing the green generation.
Expanding on the diversity of ICCA’s official language(s) paves the way for our industry colleagues to take a moment and look at language learning as a cognitive and cultural enrichment.
During the General Assembly at the 57th ICCA Congress in Dubai, ICCA announced FIEXPO Latin America as the first “ICCA Language Champion”, marking the launch of ICCA’s first venture into providing multilingual services to its members. Providing Spanish translations of ICCA’s most important advisory publications and digital resources, the “ICCA Language Champion” programme will ensure more ICCA members have access to valuable meetings industry expertise in their native languages.
David Hidalgo, Show Director, IBTM Americas, looks forward to the future of business events in the region and reveals his passion for turning LATAM into a driving force in the business events sector.
With the New Year not far off, it’s the time of year when we reflect on 2018 and think about what changes or improvements need to be made for an even more successful year ahead.
Civic and corporate leaders from four continents will gather January 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a unique two-day discourse on how business events can create diversified and sustainable opportunities for economic and social prosperity.
Hamburg Convention Bureau and IAPCO have renewed their partnership through to 2021. The partnership which began in 2015 focuses on building networks with PCOs from around the world, showcasing Germany’s second largest city as a location for international congress business.
From dedicated contents to the most innovative formats, from awards to social media and communication, the engagement of young doctors can contribute to the success of a congress.
Innovative, accessible, multi-functional, modular: the new exhibitions park and convention centre of Toulouse (France) is worthy of a name that matches the quality of its facilities.
Becoming global is an opportunity for associations to grow, and it is also a main challenge they are facing. Understanding associations and their need for expansion and delivering a legacy is the first step in the membership marketing plan to successfully attract membership from different geographical regions and cultures.
Demand for meetings and events is forecast to rise between five and 10 per cent in 2019, with the average size of meetings also expected to increase, and Africa is ready to capitalise.
From 27 to 29 November 2018 in Barcelona (Spain) the Fira Gran Via complex held a key event in the field of meetings industry – world exhibition IBTM World-2018, in which Russia took part for the second time in the collective stand RUSSIA OPEN TO THE WORLD.
Glasgow is getting ready to welcome over 1,300 of the world’s top researchers and clinicians working in the field of motor neurone disease to this year’s International Symposium on ALS/MND. Taking place from Friday 7th – Sunday 9th December 2018, the 29th International Symposium is set to achieve record-breaking delegate attendance figures.
More than 60% of waste was saved at the first completely sustainable event which took place at the Prague Congress Centre (PCC) to the occasion of awarding the “TOP Responsible Company”.
Since its founding in 1992, Meeting Media Group, publisher of Headquarters Magazine (HQ), has been a trusted guide and voice for associations and the global MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) industry.