This year Krakow will host the UNESCO World Heritage Committee session, the European Lotteries Congress and the European Congress of Transplantology Nurses. Adding prestige to Krakow are industry awards, with no other venue receiving the Meetings Star Award two years running.
Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) has today released a taste of what is to come at the much-anticipated Asia-Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo (AIME) Welcome Event.
An exciting and informative Education Programme is on offer for CONVENE 2017. This year’s list of guest speakers features a number of international meetings industry figures from around Europe who are eager to share and inspire industry professionals from across the Baltic Sea Region.
On 27 November 2013, Dubai, the city that over the last 40 years or so has probably best incarnated the progressive spirit of Expos, overtook Yekaterinburg (Russia), İzmir (Turkey) and São Paulo (Brazil) to win the right to host the 2020 World Expo – the first-ever to be organized and staged in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENA & SA) region.
International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) just launched its opening campaign – IT’S SHOWTIME – at international business events trade show, IBTM World, in Barcelona.
One of today’s myths that is shared by many policymakers across the globe is that Expo’s are a waste of public money. Their mission was to educate citizens to new discoveries when Internet was not invented so they have become obsolete. There is nothing falser that this, as was proven by last World Expo in Milan in 2015.
One can ensure a successful exhibition by effectively doing targeted marketing of the event to get feet at the event and to ensure exhibitors’ expectations are met. Tailoring the marketing of the exhibition to ensure that the right visitors are attracted is essential. See the CSIR ICC insights on the matter.
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.
To celebrate the launch of the brand new Headquarters, we have tried to give you, our readers, some food for thought. Designed as a series of articles, it will focus, this year, on World Expos. As you will read, the connections between associations and Expos are numerous and varied. But what’s in it exactly for associations?
IELA, the International Exhibition Logistics Association, is the only worldwide trade association dedicated to enhancing the professionalism of the transportation logistics and freight handling segments of the exhibition and event logistics industry. Christoph Rauch, IELA Chairman, tells HQ how they operate.
Last October, at the invitation of Atout France, about 120 hosted buyers from more than 30 countries converged for a few days in Strasbourg. The aim? To promote the French regions among international business tourism professionals and especially give them a taste of the Alsatian capital.
World champion cyclists, international HIV, AIDS and immunotherapy experts, tropical agricultural scientists and nursing and education professionals are among those heading to the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC) during the coming weeks as the Centre moves into its peak conference season.
Aloysius Arlando, Chief Executive Officer of SingEx, the management company of Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre and the first Asian to be elected to the AIPC (International Association of Congress Centres) board in 2012, has been named Vice-President.
La Cité Nantes Events Center has produced a new promotion film to present the Nantes destination and its congress centre to event organisers at regional, national and international level.
In this issue: a portrait of the the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), a focus on the latest ICCA statistics, an in-depth interview with Nikki Walker, from MCI, the UIA's thoughts on New Membership Models... and more.
Interviewed at IMEX this week, Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Convention Bureau Karen Bolinger unveiled Melbourne’s new brand positioning for business events and how Melbourne can transform events and people.
Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC) hosted a meeting of its potential associations, corporate clients and trade press on the sidelines of IMEX Frankfurt 2015.
Sunny weather, conveniently located conference venues, famous museums and elegant stores… Few cities can boast such suitable conditions as Madrid for hosting professional meetings, conferences, conventions and incentive trips. A business trip to Madrid seems less like hard work than most.
In order to encourage organisers of international multi-day conferences to choose Holland as their destination, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, NBTC Holland Marketing, and some twenty partners from the convention industry set up the Pre-financing & Guarantee Fund (VGF) in the late 1980s. The VGF fund helps conference organisers to cover pre-conference expenses, and other financial risks.
The Palais des congrès de Montréal has earned the highest level of quality certification attributable to convention centres. The AIPC Gold Quality Standards international certification confirms the Palais’ leadership in business tourism.
2015 kicks off with big news for the Palacongressi and the Convention Bureau della Riviera di Rimini (CBRR): the fusion with Rimini Fiera Spa, making it the new Business Unit for congress activities.
FITUR 2015 closed up with over 125,000 professional visitors, and a rise of 12% international professionals and 5% domestic visitors over the previous year.
A strategic alliance specialized in venue management
Summary:
To offer highly specialised venue management services in Europe and beyond: this is the confessed aim of Artexis-SMG, a joint venture company recently established by Artexis easyFairs and SMG.
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.