The UFI Board of Directors has elected Mr Corrado Peraboni, CEO from Fiera Milano Congressi, as the President of UFI for the 2017/2018 term. The decision was made at a board meeting during UFI’s Open Seminar in Basel, Switzerland.
The City of Vilnius is excited to announce the launch of GO Vilnius. Unveiled in May 2016, GO Vilnius is the city’s new development agency combining international investment, business development, and city marketing and tourism initiatives, including the work of the Vilnius Convention Bureau, under one umbrella organisation.
By 2050 70% of the world`s population of almost 10 billion people will live in cities. It is becoming increasingly critical for association executives to broaden their agendas to include strategies to help their organisation and its members become part of the ecosystem focused on creating more sustainable, healthy and prosperous cities.
Convention Edinburgh, the business tourism arm of the city’s official marketing agency, Marketing Edinburgh, has reported its most successful year to date, securing new conference and event bid wins worth £94.3 million to the local economy and a 10,000 boost in delegate numbers.
On the occasion of the 4th Women Deliver Congress, which aims to improve women’s and girls’ health, rights and well-being globally, almost 6,000 women and men from all over the world came together in the Danish capital.
In this issue of Headquarters: how associations can work better with destinations, a feature on France, an interview with Jan Tonkin as the new IAPCO president, a new section "Association Insights" by Mark Levin, the second piece of our EXPO series, an association profile of Efma... and much more.
The forum attracted more than 180 regional and global meeting experts plus association meeting planners. The new ICCA Middle East Forum marks the start of an annual education programme leading to the 2018 ICCA Congress in Dubai.
Today marks the beginning of the world’s premier pig health conference. Dublin will extend a warm welcome to nearly 3,500 pig health experts and practitioners to its shores, where the 24th International Pig Veterinary Congress & the 8th European Symposium of Porcine Health Management (IPVS & ESPHM) will take place
The goal of visit.brussels' new Association Bureau is to further improve the support available to international associations and to consolidate the global role of the Region in the work of these associations.
The European Association Summit (EAS), during which international associations exchange information, share knowledge, and network, held its 4th edition from 31 May through 2 June 2016 in Brussels, at SQUARE-BRUSSELS MEETING CENTRE.
Exhibition Centre Liverpool is preparing to open its doors for the world’s leading business event when the International Festival for Business (IFB) arrives in the city.
France is ranked 5th in the most recent ICCA ratings (International Congress and Convention Associations) hosting 522 international conferences and conventions. These encouraging statistics fortify France’s position as a destination where innovation inspires business.
The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) has become one of the first organisations in Europe to gain the recently established Quality and Environmental Standards - ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 - that replace the historic international standards that are due to be phased out by the transition deadline in 2018.
Thriving in a constantly evolving digitalized world
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Efma promotes innovation in retail finance by fostering debate and discussion among peers supported by a robust array of information services and numerous opportunities for direct encounters. Karine Coutinho, Deputy Managing Director, explains how the organisation operates.
The Oostende Convention Bureau has just launched a newly designed website, a professional showcase of the meeting facilities and opportunities in Oostende, revamped for easier access to all necessary information for planners.
In this second article of our World Expo series, Matteo Pederzoli puts Astana on the map and wonders how associations, like the ones you, our dear readers, represent, are planning to get involved in the 2017 Expo. There seems to be a lot of ways to do so.
The Italian capital has won the bid to host the International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery 2022; ICSES is to be held at La Nuvola Congress Centre in Rome in May.
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.