Suzanne Singleton will be taking over as Head of Associations at London & Partners following Becky Graveney’s departure after nearly 10 successful years attracting some of the world’s biggest congresses to the city.
The latest insights into the meetings sector will be aired in Brisbane as staff from Australia’s convention bureaux convene for their 27th annual flagship meeting from 7-9 September.
Social broadcasting is quickly becoming a game changer for those who have a message to spread. The European Society of Association Executives (ESAE) is holding a peer2eer session on 9/9/16 from 4-6pm in Brussels.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs). Philipp Steiner, Meetings Logistics Coordinator, explains how the organisation operates and the issues they have to deal with.
IMEX America has completely reimagined the 2016 program and format of Association Focus, its unique education and networking event for association professionals.
The newly formed international association of event hosts is hoping to share by collaborating as a group when it comes to hosting sports events around the globe. The idea formed this spring in Lausanne during the City-to-City session at the SportAccord Convention.
Pierre Goad, President of APACD and Group Head of Human Resources and Communications at HSBC, tells us more about promoting a pan-Asia-Pacific communication culture in an ever-globalising world.
For the fourth year, meeting professionals from around the world gathered to pick up insights provided by expert speakers at the Association Meetings Conference at Church House Westminster in London on June 13. More than 100 delegates attended the one-day conference featuring sessions on how to deliver value and use innovation in association meetings.
The Asia-Pacific Federation of Association Organizations (APFAO) had its first general meeting on April 10, 2016 hosted by the ASAE during the 2nd ASAE Great Ideas Conference Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong.
From 3 to 6 July, la Cité Nantes Events Center welcomed its peers as it hosted the AIPC Annual Conference (International Association of Convention Centres). It was the second time in AIPC’s history that France was chosen as the conference destination and the occasion for Nantes to showcase what they can offer to meeting planners.
The UIA confirms Brussels as the number two city in the world, and the number one in Europe in terms of the number of international conferences it hosts
More than two-thirds of the associations surveyed in 2015 by the UIA were not aware or did not use services provided by convention and visitor bureaux (CVBs).
The Union of International Associations (UIA) has undertaken statistical studies on the preceding year’s international meetings. Here you are the results!
Key players discuss about the success of the event
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Sicily, host destination of the 9th EFPA Italia Meeting at the Hotel Hilton Giardini Naxos, in Taormina. 800 professionals took part in the event together with the other participants and exhibitors. The total attendance reached 1,000, exceeding expectations of EFPA Italia’s organising committee.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a Regulation by which the European Commission intends to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the European Union (EU). It will become enforceable in more than 1 year from now, 2017.
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.
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.
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