Cvent Global Travel Managers Report Reveals 91 per Cent Manage Both Business Travel and Meetings
The 2025 report shows centralised travel and event sourcing is now standard, with 91% in Europe noting that this has led to cost savings.
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SITE to Host Incentive Summit Europe 2025 in St. Moritz, Switzerland
An intimate gathering of global incentive travel professionals heads to the Alps this weekend for connection, education, and destination discovery.
Italian Exhibition Group Receives the UFI Digital Innovation Award 2025
For innovative strategies on how to use technology to create a measurable impact on the performance of a trade show or organisation.
Scandic To Build a New Hotel in Uppsala
Plans to open a modern 236-room hotel in downtown Uppsala, together with landlord Vasakronan, in the rapidly growing Southern City area.
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center To Be Renamed the Thomas Michael Menino Convention and Exhibition Center
The name will be changed in honour of the city’s longest-serving mayor. An event to officially mark the name change will be held on Saturday, July 12.
World-Leading Rehabilitation Congress Returns to Stockholm
As the world’s leading congress in its fields, the event is expected to gather more than 4,000 participants from over 100 countries.
8.9 Million MICE trips to Germany in 2024
According to the IPK World Travel Monitor 2024, Germany once again ranks number one worldwide as a destination for business events.
Dubai Business Associates Celebrates Graduation of Milestone Tenth Cohort
Ten Emiratis formed a key part of the cohort selected from a highly competitive pool of 5,550 applicants from 160 countries.
Scandic To Open Alpine Hotel in Sälen
The property is in a prime location and will offer guests ski-in and ski-out access as well as a wellness area with a sauna, gym and pool.
19th EAPC World Congress Brings Leading Palliative Care Experts to Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre
The congress will take place in Finland for the first time, and is expected to attract around 3,000 healthcare and medical professionals.
Abu Dhabi to host the M&I Expo 14–16 April 2026
The expo will bring together the ‘MICE 1,000’, a handpicked community of influential global buyers and suppliers in the MICE industry.
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IMEX 2023: Robin Mack, Business Events Australia
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Copenhagen Legacy Lab on Creating Long-Term Positive Impact From Congresses
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IBTM World 2022: Noor Ahmad Hamid, Malaysia Convention Bureau on Legacy
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A Paradigm Shift
Long-term Consequences When global knowledge and expertise are shifting away, in favour of wall-building exercises.
Business Events Are a Priority for Abu Dhabi
Strategic Development Benefits like knowledge exchange and sector development underline why business events are a priority for the emirate.
China Creates Conditions to Strengthen Business Events
Economic Development The President of the Shanghai Exhibition Industry Association, claims that China’s exhibition and meetings facilities area ranks first globally.
Key Priority: Integrate DEI Into Every Aspect
Prioritise DEI Embrace inclusivity to create more meaningful, diverse, and impactful experiences for all attendees.
A Paradigm Shift
Long-term Consequences When global knowledge and expertise are shifting away, in favour of wall-building exercises.
Shaping the Narrative of Business Events in Africa
The Broader Impact The strategic foresight of Rick Taylor’s unrelenting decades of pioneering work towards the infinite horizons of futures imagined.
Athens New Role as a Global Metropolis
Radar One of Europe’s most significant urban regeneration projects, the Ellinikon, is underway in Athens.
AI Reduces Stress Over Work Tasks
Radar At least for employees performing new tasks at work, or that are tasked with performing many tasks.
Business Events Are a Priority for Abu Dhabi
Strategic Development Benefits like knowledge exchange and sector development underline why business events are a priority for the emirate.
Latest MI Edition
Words Are Containers of Power
Intro Atti Soenarso reflects on the currently ongoing world-stage blitzkrieg on free speech, and its implications.
A Paradigm Shift
Long-term Consequences When global knowledge and expertise are shifting away, in favour of wall-building exercises.
Can Your Observations and Memories Be Trusted?
Psychological Meetings Hans Gordon ponders whether we can trust our memories of events, or even the perceptions that formed them.
AI Reduces Stress Over Work Tasks
Radar At least for employees performing new tasks at work, or that are tasked with performing many tasks.
Business Events Are a Priority for Abu Dhabi
Strategic Development Benefits like knowledge exchange and sector development underline why business events are a priority for the emirate.
The Zambia Business Events Sector Is Headed for Significant Growth
Paths to Progress While putting ‘afronauts’ on the moon remains, Zambia has a rich mosaic of meeting facilities and supporting infrastructure ready.
Troubled and Divided
Intermission Cultural Personality of the Year, Haruki Murakami, hopes to contribute to connecting human hearts.
Shaping the Narrative of Business Events in Africa
The Broader Impact The strategic foresight of Rick Taylor’s unrelenting decades of pioneering work towards the infinite horizons of futures imagined.
Athens New Role as a Global Metropolis
Radar One of Europe’s most significant urban regeneration projects, the Ellinikon, is underway in Athens.
China Creates Conditions to Strengthen Business Events
Economic Development The President of the Shanghai Exhibition Industry Association, claims that China’s exhibition and meetings facilities area ranks first globally.
Key Priority: Integrate DEI Into Every Aspect
Prioritise DEI Embrace inclusivity to create more meaningful, diverse, and impactful experiences for all attendees.
The Soloist’s Symphony
Radar She had always been told that the orchestra was everything, that the collective harmony trumped individual brilliance.
Oman Continues Its Progress Towards Sustainability
Sustainable Impact In a testament to their efforts, Oman was recently named the least polluted country in the GCC.
Imex Frankfurt Education Programme: Designed to Inspire and Impact
The Power of Knowledge Full rundown revealed, with over 150 professional and personal development learning sessions.
The Rules of Forgiveness
Sharma Robin Sharma on how getting brilliant at forgiving others delivers benefits to you as a leader, producer and person.
How to Create Competitive Advantage and Set Your Meetings and Events Apart
Create Advantage Scott Steinberg on clever and cost-effective strategies to help stand out, and stay one step ahead of the pack.
How Many Scientific Conventions Will the US Lose Under Trump?
Kellerman Roger Kellerman on the consequences of driving knowledge and talent oversees, or just plainly into the sea.
Featured
Al Shindagha Museum Hosts the International Council of Museums General Conference in 2025
Hopes to draw over a million visitors, with the theme “The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities.”
New Environment Authority Plans to Double Green Spaces
Will promote sustainable practices and aims to make Dubai a top-10 ranked city in leading sustainability indices by 2033.
Dubai’s Metaverse Strategy Aims to Make It One of the World’s Top Ten Metaverse Economies
Seeks to attract more than 1,000 new companies in the blockchain and metaverse fields.
The Dubai Mindset
Atti Soenarso: While there is no single right or perfect framework for foresight, lacking a guide means abandoning control over the future.
Dnata: Logistic Efficiency Is What Matters
It is all about optimisation, and the technology helps visualise what’s happening in your business as accurately as possible.
New 1.6 Km-Long Al Khaleej Street Tunnel
Vital component of ambitious project to reduce travel times from 104 minutes to 16 minutes, serving a million residents.
Expo 2020: From a Six-Month Event to a Six-Century Destination
Developing Expo City Dubai, the World Expo’s legacy city and an innovation-driven, people-centric city of the future.
RTA Earmarks AED278 Million for a State-of-the-Art Street Lighting Project
Employs the latest smart and sustainable lighting technologies for the climatic conditions.
Latest MI|BIR Edition
The Paris Olympic Spirit 2.0
Intro Atti Soenarso on the power of an Olympic reset reshaping the image of both event and country, and on bottling its spirit for years to come.
The Business Events Industry Can Help to Create a More Peaceful World
Urban Planning Seoul Tourism Organization President Ki Yon Kil on sustainable urban development and the necessity for stable geopolitics.
Northshore Vision 2050 Legacy Plan Beyond the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games
Legacy Infrastructure Transforming the Northshore Hamilton district into a thriving hub of residential, commercial, and sports infrastructure.
Global DMC Partners Results and Key Findings of Q3
Meetings & Events Survey The business events industry faces ongoing cost challenges and the need for larger budget increases.
Global DMOs Operate with Dysfunctional Funding Models
DMO Funding Models Internationally, market success doesn’t always correlate with market resourcing, and could even have adverse effects on funding.
Bratislava Can Become One of Europe’s 20 Most Important Business Event Cities
Strategic Development A wide range of stakeholders know that this industry has a far-reaching economic impact on the city and its brand.
Having a Dedicated Convention Bureau with Political Support Is a Game Changer
Strategic Development The philosophy has remained unchanged since launch: to be experts in their destination, Slovakia and Bratislava.
Increase the Representation of Women in Leadership Roles
Advancing Women The disparity of women in business events versus women in leadership positions within the industry is particularly striking.
Ethiopian Airlines Signs Contract for Mega Airport City
Investment The new airport facility will handle up to 100 million passengers annually, making it of the most significant aviation hubs worldwide.
Rethink Digital Slide Presentations
Achieve New Heights Mike van der Vijver is against the default thinking that slideshows are necessary. They are just one of many options.
Business Events in Brazil Is Booming
Economic Development Boosted by many global companies and corporations now considering the country an important investment destination.
Global Events Are Crucial in Exchanging Knowledge and Experiences, Fostering Collaboration and Innovation
The Value of Business Events Politicians in Prague and the Czech Republic recognise the importance of business events.
How to Boost Learning and Engagement at Your Events
New Learning Models The practice of gamification offers a means of addressing current needs and boosting engagement and takeaway.
DXB Breaks Mid-Year Record with 44.9 Million Guests
Boosting Economy On track to break records with 91.8 million annual guests forecasted for 2024, after market resurgence.
Most Companies Today Are Only 80 per Cent Efficient
Brain Check To achieve a change for the better, you need to know enough to understand the problem and what can be done about it.
When Content No Longer Matters, Is Analytics the New Religion?
Kellerman Roger Kellerman ponders why metrics themselves now appear more important than what’s actually being measured.
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