Sector: Conventions
Olena Pavlyuk | Destination Marketing in a Country at War
Destination Marketing Organization University (DMOU) Podcast: When the moderator went to the audience this year at the Annual Convention of Destinations International asking, “what keeps you up at night,” Lviv’s Olena Pavlyuk held out her mobile device and replayed a recording of an air raid siren. In this fascinating episode of DMOU, Olena shares how…
Controversial Laws Make Some States a Harder Sell for CVBs
Convention and visitor bureaus are not political entities; their job is to attract and welcome travelers. Given that charter, nearly all try to keep hot topics out of their messaging. But when divisive legislation has a growing number of meeting planners opting to go elsewhere, how should they respond? From Northstar Meetings Group…
‘Anti-Woke’ Bills are Costing Florida Millions of Dollars
A slew of new bills signed into law by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has draped the Sunshine State in controversy, spurring protests, lawsuits and travel advisories warning the state is ‘openly hostile’ toward people of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ community members. From CNN…
PCMA Convene Magazine | Adjusting to Changes
A European medical association has found that its pre-pandemic siteselection strategy, which prioritized a legacy engagement project, has not proven to be viable in the current environment. By Michelle Russell: The pandemic has upended destinations’ view of business events as some kind of “subsidiary of tourism,” UK-based global urbanist Greg Clark, who spoke at the…
Associations Creating Impact – Not a Trend, the New Normal
By Maraika Black, Advocacy, Policy, and Public Health Coordinator, European Association for the Study of the Liver: Health conferences have traditionally focused on actors directly involved in the field – specialists, medical experts, general practitioners, researchers, nurses, and allied health professionals. It has long since been a source of prestige and professional mobilisation for delegates…
Western Canada’s MICE Destinations Are Pillars of Success
By Jeff Heilman, from Meetings Today: Destination Canada’s Business Events team has a remarkable record of creating innovative initiatives, backed by in-depth market research and analysis, to promote, amplify and advance the Canadian meetings industry. This evolving program is geared principally to Canada’s priority economic sectors. These comprise life sciences, agribusiness, advanced manufacturing, finance and…
AIPC Delivers Ongoing Legacies Through Future Shapers Program
AIPC’s second Future Shapers intake graduated on Tuesday 18 July, following a competitive on stage pitch to solve convention centre industry challenges, at the AIPC Annual Conference in Luxembourg. In the grand finale of their eight-month accelerated leadership programme, two teams competed to convince the industry’s CEOs and senior leaders… From The Association Magazine…
PCMA Project Spark: De-Mystifying & De-Stigmatising AI
PCMA and its Singapore-based event tech partners, Gevme, unveiled the launch of Project Spark at IMEX 23 in Frankfurt in response to the growing fears within event planner communities of the impact that AI will have upon their productivity and jobs. But Sherrif Karamat CAE, the organisation’s Chief Executive, explains that it isn’t AI which…
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