Proudly hosted by four IAPCO PCO members — AFEA, CONVIN, ERA, and ERASMUS — together with IAPCO destination partner This is Athens–Convention & Visitors Bureau, this landmark gathering will bring the IAPCO community together in the birthplace of the first symposia, united in purpose to keep #UnlockingExcellence.
EIA (the Event Industry Alliance) and UFI have collaborated with Oxford Economics to assess the economic impact of exhibitions in the UK for the year 2024. The report highlights the exhibition industry’s contributions to the UK’s economy, including output, GDP, and job creation, driven by participant expenditures. View / download the report here…
From Boardroom: The Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow hosted the IEEE CleanTech Summit 2025 last week, launching a milestone series of IEEE conferences set to take place at the venue through 2027. The inaugural CleanTech Summit convened international leaders in engineering, science, and technology to address critical sustainability challenges — from renewable energy integration and…
This one-and-a-half-day event provides attendees with a unique opportunity to meet and network with European colleagues managing city cards schemes, to share knowledge and insights to stay ahead of the latest market trends & anticipate customers’ needs, helping participants to grow their business in a sustainable way as well as strengthening their professional expertise.
CityDNA International Conference is the premier platform for destination marketing and management professionals to push beyond traditional boundaries and embrace a future built on sustainability, digital transformation, and cross-sector collaboration. With a diverse range of expert-led sessions, this conference offers the opportunity to learn from the best and network with like-minded professionals.
Join peer CEOs to discuss and strategize about the future of your organisation, share best practices in innovation, change management. From budget constraints and political changes, digital transformation in the visitor experience, sustainability and shifting visitor behaviours, we will explore key challenges faced by our DMOs’ leadership and explore key paths for success and transformation.
The CVB Expert Meeting (open to all CVBs) is a compact 1.5-day format combining focused discussions, informal networking and shared moments around the table. Whether you are leading a bureau, managing operations or driving strategy, this meeting is built to offer both practical value and meaningful connections in a relaxed and open environment.
The Visitor Experience Expert Meeting (formerly TIC Expert Meeting) offers a mix of incentive and exchange opportunities for all attendees. This event is for managers and TIC front office professionals coming from small and large cities and working for either public or private tourist information organisations – whether they are CityDNA members or not.
This interactive session is designed for CVB professionals to exchange ideas, share best practices, and engage in peer-led discussions on key industry topics. After the discussions, we’ll continue with a networking reception, providing the perfect opportunity to connect with industry peers before IBTM World begins.
Participants gain insights into current issues, industry trends, and key customer perspectives, setting the stage for intense competition on the IMEX show floor. The Summit creates a global forum to assess key market challenges and develop innovative strategies, bringing together over 50 senior-level convention centre executives, client representatives, and marketing specialists.
Having advised civic leaders in over 300 cities worldwide, Prof Greg Clark is ideally placed to interview City Destinations Alliance (CityDNA) leaders on the role of business and professional events in shaping the evolution and competitive positioning of European destinations, showcasing intellectual capital, attracting talent, start-ups and inward investment, whilst safeguarding local citizens’ interests.
From Meetings International: The German Convention Bureau (GCB) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO have announced the launch of their new Research Centre for Future Meeting Studies (RCFMS). The Research Centre builds on and continues the work of the “Future Meeting Space” innovation network, which was initiated by the two organisations back in…
Under the theme “Bridging Minds: A Collaborative Innovation Journey,” EDGE Stockholm 2026 introduces exciting new features designed to make your learning journey even more impactful. Join colleagues from around the world for three days of dynamic education, meaningful connections and authentic Stockholm experiences — and help us launch the next decade of EDGE learning, leadership…
IMEX Frankfurt is where the global meetings, events and incentive travel industry comes together annually for the largest trade show of its kind in Europe. Where 4,500-plus global meeting planners connect with 3,100 suppliers from across the world, building powerful working relationships—to create better events, meetings and experiences.
The Annual Conference brings together members to consider key industry issues and hear from top professionals in a variety of related fields. A global gathering for convention & exhibition centre managers and industry partners to share best practices, explore innovations, benchmark performance, build networks and tackle challenges across operations, sales, marketing, sustainability and facility management.
Participants gain insights into current issues, industry trends, and key customer perspectives, setting the stage for intense competition on the IMEX show floor. The Summit creates a global forum to assess key market challenges and develop innovative strategies, bringing together over 50 senior-level convention centre executives, client representatives, and marketing specialists.
A targeted, cost effective form of training and development, providing the means to establish industry networks that facilitate future professional growth. Using a diverse international faculty and range of guest presenters, it offers a full curriculum and a comprehensive industry overview with ongoing updates of all key areas of centre management, operations, finances and marketing.
Vienna has a decades-long track-record of proactively harnessing its intellectual capital both to attract international meetings, and to ensure those meetings generate long-term legacies at both the local and global level. Here are some of the latest examples. From Boardroom…
Guy Bigwood provides optimistic and pessimistic perspectives on potential impacts on the travel, tourism and events sectors of the EU’s latest strategic world overview. Missing from his analysis is the certainty that these geopolitical issues will generate huge demand for new sectoral meetings where their implications, risks, and potential solutions can be debated and analysed.
This article provides an outline of the key steps cities need to take to create their own international events that can meet priority economic development goals: identify unique intellectual assets; coordinate disparate stakeholders; articulate a clear vision and event philosophy; bring in citizen voices; think about wider societal impact; use fresh meeting design-thinking. From Boardroom:…
From Glasgow Convention Bureau: This World Charity Day, we’re proud to reflect on the incredible partnership between the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – EAACI Congress 2025 and the Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity. In June, during the Congress held at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, over 350 dedicated runners laced up…
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