Carina Bauer, CEO of the IMEX Group joins the conversation as the industry celebrates today the Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), 12 April. “The global meetings industry has taken great strides forward since 2001 when we launched the IMEX concept and I became totally involved,” says Bauer. “Looking back at the last decade I think…
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CMW’s international reporter Ramy Salameh finds a suite where LAX Airport meets ultimate luxury. Forget the crowded airport thoroughfares and lounges, the queues for immigration to boarding and waiting for baggage. Think: being delivered for departure directly to the aircraft steps and to be met on the tarmac on arrival by a chauffeur driven limousine… The…
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…
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…
Ian Edwards (pictured below), CEO ICC Wales and Celtic Manor Resort, shares his views on how to bring a new-build business events destination to market. The new International Convention Centre Wales (ICC Wales) is due to open at Celtic Manor, Newport Wales, in 2019. The venue will provide Wales with a purpose-built convention centre for…
By Lara Bushell, director & MC member, Conference Interpreters UK (CIUK) As we mark International Women’s Day, there is at least one branch of industry where everything is hunky-dory on the equality side. This remarkable exception is called ‘conference interpreting’. Indeed, to paraphrase George Orwell, in our farmyard women are more equal than others. We…
CMW attended the historic opening of Paris’ new convention centre, the largest conference centre in Europe. Despite a spate of tragic terror incidents in recent years, Paris is looking towards a dynamic future, with the 2024 Olympic Games on the horizon, and events including the Art Paris Art Fair 2018 billed to be bigger than…
By Brad Peters – director of International Sales and Tradeshow Development at Tourism Saskatoon Saskatoon, a gem of a city on the South Saskatchewan River, has been chosen by the New York Times as one of the world’s best places to visit in 2018. And no wonder. A big attraction is the brand-new Remai Modern…
Conventions and business events are evolving all the time. [In 2017] one of the leading exhibitors at the world’s largest motor show, IAA Frankfurt, took its involvement to new heights with a convention that reflected the future of the brand – outside of the main event. Mercedes-Benz took its involvement beyond the main stage of…
By Matthew Stubbs, CEO, BookingTek The meetings and events industry is thriving, says Issa Jouaneh, general manager of American Express Meetings & Events. In fact, the industry is set to grow in all regions of the world in 2018, according to the company’s latest research. But growth doesn’t mean the industry will stand still. Technology…
