MICE

The Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions has signed a strategic partnership with Meetingselect, which offers one of the most successful and largest corporate booking tools in the world.

Organised by the International Transport Forum at the OECD since 2008, the three-day conference that will kick off on Wednesday (23 May) in the city of Leipzig, Germany is the world’s largest gathering of transport ministers and policy makers.

SUN Beach&Outdoor Style, the 36th edition of the key international exhibition for the beach, outdoor and camping worlds, will be held simultaneously with TTG Travel Experience and SIA Hospitality Design at Rimini Expo Centre.

Greater Fort Lauderdale will be the host destination for the first-ever Pride of the Americas Festival. The 10-day event will be hosted by Pride of Fort Lauderdale and presented by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau and will include a parade, a beach party, arts festival, social events throughout the destination, and a human rights conference focused on LGBT+ rights.

The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association’s 35th Anniversary Global Convention took place 9-12 May at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, brought together approximately 500 tourism professionals representing 40 countries to share innovative ideas and best practices, making it the best attended and most globally diverse conference in IGLTA’s history.

Globalisation, localisation, city resilience, sustainability and legacy were some of the biggest challenges facing the industry that were discussed at the IMEX Policy Forum.

A new international network of DMCs is born: Preferred DMCs. Preferred DMCs is a boutique consortium of select Destination & Event Management Companies from around the globe specializing in bespoke high-end incentive travel and special interest groups, VIP travel, events, meetings and conferences.

During this year's IMEX, the Golden Stadttor Multimedia Award will honor Ray Bloom with the Diamond Award for Lifetime Achievement.

A joint project of the German National Tourist Board (GNTB), European Association of Event Centres (EVVC) and the German Convention Bureau (GCB) revealed trends and insights of Germany's meetings, conference, and events sector.

After another successful year for the international association meetings industry, ICCA captured a record number of 12,558 rotating international association meetings taking place in 2017, with 346 additional meetings taking place compared to 2016.

Member States of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) have gathered in Durban, South Africa ahead of Africa’s Travel Indaba for a two-day engagement to map a way forward in advancing coastal and marine tourism in the region.

Budapest will host UNICEO Congress “Leading events to the Future” on 27 - 29 June 2018. A non-profit event will bring together 200 head of events from leading corporations such as Microsoft, Nokia, Nissan, Schneider Electric, Porsche, Sanofi, Total, Orange, JP Morgan, Cap Gemini, Bayer, Schlumberger, Siemens, SAP, Merck, BP, etc. from more than 30 countries.

The Saudi Exhibition & Convention Bureau (SECB) has recently become a member of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), and has invested in a much larger stand at IMEX in Frankfurt 2018 where 23 venues, event organisersand services companies from the Kingdom will be partnering with the SECB. In addition, the SECB has become a sponsor of the IMEX Policy Forum.

Budapest, one of the most picturesque cities in Europe, was the backdrop for M.I.C.E.-in-the-bag’s latest pop-up event. As with the previous ones held in London, Stockholm and Florence, it used the unique recipe of MICE-in-the-bag: a one-stop meeting environment for delivery-ready suppliers and budget-ready buyers of MICE.