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Talking about Toronto’s tech boom
Mark Crawford, Business Events Toronto, writes about the tech boom taking place in Toronto, Canada. Toronto has emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing tech markets, and groups choosing the city for their meetings are poised to benefit from what’s happening here in the sector. Not only is Toronto an appealing international destination to people…
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Essentially speaking…
etouches, a cloud event management software company, brings a visual component to CMW’s new event tech section. The featured infographic includes data collected from a 2016 etouches global survey of 239 event planners. Taking you through the before, during and after of an event, etouches reveals key points in an event’s lifecycle and the steps to…
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The Flanders effect
Ramy Salameh says Flanders’ recent hosting of the Associations World Congress will have impressed these influential meeting planners who experienced the region’s ease of access and depth of heritage first-hand. The new Flanders Meeting & Convention Centre Antwerp (FMCCA) played host to the Associations World Congress (AWC) in March, with some 500 association professionals stepping through…
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A taste of Tangier
Stephanie Ackland’s Morocco MICE tour takes us to Tangier The North African city of Tangier is enjoying a resurgence. Situated at the northern tip of Morocco and Africa, it lies 20 miles (32.1km) from Spain and is raising its business profile and MICE offering. Tangier is a melting pot of cultures, but with a firm…
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Talking ’bout digitalisation
CMW embraces digital transformation, and gives room to event tech’s growing presence within the global events industry. Proceeds from global tech IPOs amounted to US$25.1bn in 2017, with 168% growth from 2016 (PwC, Global Technology IPO Review). The present-day digital dialogue is anchored in transformation and growth; and, as our event tech section reveals, advancements…
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Thabethe’s targets
South Africa’s deputy minister of tourism, Elizabeth Thabethe, tells CMW about a big new ZAR110m bidding fund, a delegate boosting initiative and other new business event strategies. What is the biggest challenge today for South Africa in marketing itself as an international conference and events destination? The major challenge is probably financial constraints. South African Tourism is…
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Blockchain, the new currency for conferencing?
Ramy Salameh looks at the implications of this new technology made famous by cryptocurrency Bitcoin and says it could be a major driver for meetings, as featured in issue 93 of CMW. Blockchain is being perceived as the next ‘game changer’ since the arrival of the internet. Its technology facilitates and underpins digital currencies such…
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Cvent partners with big brands
Event technology specialists Cvent has announced several notable organisations have chosen its Event and Hospitality Cloud platforms to run their meetings and events, and increase their revenue. These organisations join more than 25,000 Cvent customers based in over 100 countries. Cvent’s Event Cloud More than 80% of the Fortune 100 use Cvent to manage their…
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Future Meeting Room
Ramy Salameh reports on how Germany is thinking ahead with its Future Meeting Space project. Three million meetings, conventions and events take place every year in Germany, attracting 380m participants, making it second only to the US for international association conferences. Germany’s latest Meeting & Event Barometer, 2016/2017, showed that the number of international visitors…
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Fancy a festivalisation refresh?
Antony Reeve-Crook explores ‘festivalisation’ and the business of making the main event. The ultimate incarnation of an event, either industry or consumer, is the festival, and not just by virtue of their size. Festivals take a community and deliver an identity through shared experience. Whether industry specific such as the Cannes Film Festival, or more…
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Focus and flexibility
AIPC president Aloysius Arlando says flexibility is key to taking advantage of opportunities in the year ahead. Was 2017 a good year for the 186 AIPC members? In most performance terms, 2017 was in fact a very good year as a continuation of a growth pattern, since the global financial crisis in 2008, at a rate…
