Tourism leaders will be tackling the key issues arising from Edinburgh’s ongoing success as a visitor destination head on next month, when they attend the annual Edinburgh Tourism Action Group (ETAG) Conference on Thursday 1 February 2018.
100% delegate approval ratings for BestCities Global Forum
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Delegates and organisers of the BestCities Global Forum were united in their praise for the four-day conference, which took place in Tokyo in December. One hundred percent of delegates surveyed agreed that they would recommend attending the BestCities 2018 event to other international association delegates, while a staggering 95% reported the Forum met or exceeded their expectations.
The Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) has confirmed that NewcastleGateshead will be the host destination for their 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting. The theme of the event is medical education with a global perspective, with esteemed keynote speakers flying in from around the globe to speak on the subject.
PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) announced strong financial growth and record revenue numbers at the final press conference held during its annual Convening Leaders event, taking place in Nashville, TN at the Music City Center this week, January 7-10, 2018.
The construction phases for Hall 10 and the Entrance West of the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre have been completed on schedule – CMT 2018 first event in the new building
Only two months remaining to the 6th edition of the European Association Summit (EAS). Join us on 8-9 March at the Square by registering with an early bird fee until 25 January.
On the 10th and 11th January 2018, the event and MICE industry will meet at the leading trade fair "BEST OF EVENTS International" in the Westfalenhallen Dortmund exhibition centre.
A year on from the official opening of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall, the iconic venue has established itself as a firm favourite among meeting planners and leisure visitors alike.
During its recently held CEO meeting for Capital and Major Cities in Helsinki, European Cities Marketing tackled new rising challenges through the issue of overtourism. This issue has risen up the agenda quickly across Europe and is becoming a source of concern for cities of all sizes.
Arnaldo Nardone, a MICE veteran in Latin America and former president of ICCA Board of Directors, tells HQ what Latin America can do to make a bigger mark on a global stage, and how FIEXPO, a hugely successful regional trade fair that celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, will transform into Ibero-American show in the future.
Elizabeth Thabethe, South Africa’s newly appointed Deputy Minister of Tourism, is a firm believer in “bleisure” travel—the combination of business and leisure travel.
Associations today no longer have exclusivity on sector news and information, nor do they have a monopoly on high-value opportunities to connect or converse with peers. Alec Walker-Love of the European Science Communication Institute talked to ESAE members on co-opetition, collaboration and more.
drp celebrated and ended their year on a high with an increased turnover of £21.5M, in comparison to last year’s £16.4M and a gross profit of £12M, at the annual Christmas Conference and Anything’s Possible awards ceremony, which was held at drp’s 212 studios in Worcestershire on 22nd December.
In the first edition of its awards for sustainable tourism, Turisme de Barcelona Consortium awarded the prize to the CCIB for its promotion of the social football school of the Trinijove Foundation.
Meeting architecture, programme design, cathedral thinking, just some of the current catch phrases for enhancing a meeting programme to lift it above others; but do events really make the most of the culture and country in which they are holding their meeting?
The European Academy of Neurology will host its annual congress in Vienna in 2021: around 5,000 participants are expected to attend the event at the Austria Center Vienna between 12 and 15 June 2021.
In this year’s last edition, we discuss something we certainly know a few things about: Competition. In 2017, many things have changed in my life that, in the end, have made me so happy. A lot has changed in my company and publications; the company has become younger, happier and more creative.
As a direct result of Oman’s new convention centre facilities, part of the new Madinat Al Irfan urban development, the Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre (OCEC) and the Oman Convention Bureau are celebrating a double-win having successfully won two major congresses; the World Hospital Congress in 2019 and the Royal Congress of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in 2020.
At the European Cities Marketing Meeting in Reykjavik, February 21-24, 2018, ECM will follow in the footsteps of the best of Jedi knights, looking towards the dark side to leverage and learn from a mindset that ignites innovation and disruption.
On 21 and 22 November, the Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre (OCEC) in association with the Oman Convention Bureau (Ministry of Tourism) and the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) celebrated a successful first ICCA Oman Meetings Association Expert Forum.
Hall 3C has only reached its topping-out ceremony, but one thing is already clear: it will be a jewel, and a new attention-getter in the southwest corner of the exhibition centre.
Many of us are familiar with ICCA as an industry organisation and with the events, they organise. Last month they hosted their 56th annual congress with a record attendance of almost 1300 participants.
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