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The Problem with “Mega-COPs”: Can a 50,000 Person Conference Still Tackle Climate Change?

  • Published: 5th November 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Dr Hayley Walker of IÉSEG presents an analytical argument with challenging perspective on the effectiveness of “mega-events”, especially those originally designed as government-to-government negotiation platforms, but which have attracted the involvement of big business and different communities of interest. As an industry, shouldn’t we be advocating more strongly for “impactful & effective meetings” not “bigger…

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Aligning Your Event Hosting Strategy With Your Place Brand Ambitions

  • Published: 4th November 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

This excellent benchmarking project by City Nation Place offers a wealth of strategic yet practical advice on this critical issue, with perspectives from destination representatives and owners/organisers of a wide range of international events. Download the report to learn more and to understand how you can leverage events to deliver against your place brand ambitions.

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Making DEI Matter: From Principle to Practice

  • Published: 4th November 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

On this recent Boardroom Association Podcast, Alex Filicevas, Executive Director of the World Bladder Cancer Patient Coalition, and Charley Stoney, CEO of the European Association of Communication Agencies, put forward key steps associations of all sizes can take with relation to both Board best practices and conference diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) implementation.

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MEETING NEWS

  • Published: 3rd November 2025
  • Category: News
  • Host Destination: Global

Northstar Meeting Group’s flagship business events newsletter, with the option to sign up to lots of specialist feeds, including region-specific news, and the latest news of interest to association meeting professionals. Providing meeting planners and suppliers with comprehensive information and original content in the form of articles, magazines, podcasts, and videos.

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Our World in Data

The mission of Our World in Data is to make data and research on the world’s largest problems understandable and accessible. Sign up to receive a biweekly Digest with highlights of their latest and past work every other Friday, to keep abreast of research, insights, and product announcements.

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Thoughts & Observations on Business Events

Thoughts & Observations is a weekly newsletter by Kai Hattendorf. It shares updates, reflections, and analyses on the business events and exhibitions industry, covering topics ranging from market trends to industry practices and emerging developments. Each edition provides a concise summary of recent news, data, and professional insights relevant to event organizers and stakeholders.

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UFI Info Newsletter

  • Published: 1st November 2025
  • Category: News
  • Host Destination: Global

A monthly update of reports, news, events and insights into the exhibition and trade show sector from UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry – this is where the global community stays connected and informed.

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The Power – and Peril – of Recognition

  • Published: 1st November 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

David Adler critiques the self-promoting, excessive-growth industry that Business Events industry awards have morphed into, praises those who have stood up to say “count me out”, and highlights the attributes and achievements we should be recognising if we wish to promote our sector in a way that resonates with the outside world. From GatheringPoint.news…

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Towards a Better Strategic Understanding and Utilisation of Convention & Exhibition Centre Data

  • Published: 30th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Mark O. Schloesser, Senior Venue Consultant, Gaining Edge, calls for a more holistic approach to data management within major event venues. Reliable data across all key disciplines is essential for success, but depends on having a culture of accuracy, transparency and accountability – how many venues can honestly claim to have this throughout their organisations?

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New Report Published into 2026 Global Meeting and Events Trends

  • Published: 29th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

BCD Meetings & Events has released its What’s Trending 2026 guide. The report sets out what will shape meetings and events next year, with global findings and regional detail to help planners adjust programmes, budgets and formats in practical ways. The guide finds that meetings are now treated as strategic spend. From CMW…

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Are You Ready to Contribute to the Industry Advocacy & Storytelling?

  • Published: 28th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

The Iceberg, presented by the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC), exists to enable its Partners & Ambassadors to advocate the transformative socio-economic and societal impacts generated by business and professional events . The Tip of The Iceberg: A Visitor Economy Great work by the Events Industry Council (EIC), in partnership with Oxford Economics, has quantified…

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Cyber Resilience: Lessons From the Front Line

  • Published: 27th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

AIPC is strongly recommending that its congress centre members and other business events organisations should study and apply the recommendations in the World Economic Forum’s 2005 report, “The Cyber Resilience Compass”. Drawing on over 100 experts across industries, the paper distills real-world lessons on how to anticipate risks, strengthen collaboration, and transform cyber awareness into…

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How Do Events Change Our World?

  • Published: 27th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Dr Mike Duigan from the Centre for Events & Festivals clarifies how two very different but equally powerful conceptual frameworks – Theory of Change and Field Configuring Events – can be used in tandem to generate practical, lasting transformation, both in host destinations and more generally in service of the event-owning organisation’s mission.

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Destinations International Research Calls for Fresh Advocacy Model Amid Funding Reductions

  • Published: 23rd October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Destination leaders recently gathered in California as Destinations International shared new research and resources for destination organisations to strengthen reputation, advocacy, and long-term success. This included The Advocacy Leadership Imperative, produced with MMGY NextFactor and supported by the DI Foundation, outlining a model for destination advocacy that embeds it across governance, strategy, and performance.

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Putting a Price on Intangibles: The Curious Case of the DMC

  • Published: 23rd October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Padraic Gilligan considers the implications of the intangibility of key assets that make our industry. When business models rely on events which exist briefly, with no guarantees of future revenue, and on the intellectual and experiential capital of staff who could leave tomorrow, how can accountants and venture capitalists place a value on such businesses?

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Doug Emslie – The Marathoner of Modern Exhibitions

  • Published: 17th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

David Adler profiles one of the individuals who have done the most to shape the modern entrepreneurial trade show sector, and in doing so defines essential, universal leadership attributes for success, but also advocates for the importance of having societally valuable personal objectives in such a profit-centric ecosystem. From GatheringPoint.news…

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Incredible Impacts Programme Illustrates the Importance of Designing Intentional Outcomes

  • Published: 16th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Hip replacements in Africa, domestic violence abatement in Mongolia, autism inclusivity, First People’s engagement, public health structural transformation – the wide-ranging case studies highlighted in this Boardroom article have one thing in common: a shift from “recognising” the impact of events, to partnerships between organisers and destinations that proactively plan for positive outcomes and long-term…

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Can Subvention Be a Catalyst for Destination Transformation?

  • Published: 15th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Association-Destination-Matching platfom Conferli has conducted in-depth research that obtained data on subvention policies and practices at 115 destinations worldwide, revealing wide variations in decision-making, scale of financial support, and regional utilisation. Over 90% of respondents agreed with the prompt that subventions could be used to drive forward sustainability and destination legacy objectives, yet only 6%…

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To Be or Not to Be… An Industry?

  • Published: 15th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

“We have many of the necessary puzzle pieces… but need a much stronger mid to long-term positioning for our industry.” Industry thought-leader Kai Hattendorf argues that the Business and Professional Events sector has thus far failed to present itself as a genuine industry, and has been only intermittently successful in communicating the full spectrum of…

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Skift Meetings Forum 2025: 8 Top Takeaways

  • Published: 15th October 2025
  • Host Destination: Global

Skifts’s third annual summit for CEOs and thought-leaders in the Business Events Sector tackled some of our industry’s toughest issues. Their key findings are essential reading for all those who want to understand the ways and unprecedented speed with which our sector is evolving, and the future challenges that are heading in our direction.

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