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Change and innovation are hard. Design Thinking makes it easier |
By Marc Mekki, former serial entrepreneur turned speaker, author, trainer and MIT Sloan certified Design Thinking coach.
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CHEMNITZ: Meetings in the European Capital of Culture 2025 – C THE UNSEEN |
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In 2025, Chemnitz will be the European Capital of Culture. It is already worth exploring the city and the cultural region under the motto "C...
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AVAILABLE ONLINE – Report of the UIA Survey 2021 – COVID 19 Impact on International Association Meetings |
Impact on meetings behavior. The Union of International Associations (UIA) is pleased to present the report of the 2021 Survey on International Meetings Issues. The COVID 19 pandemic has a tremendous impact on the global travel and meetings industry and on the meetings behaviour of international associations. This special UIA Survey 2021 – COVID 19 Impact on International Association Meetings focuses on the changed approach of associations, when planning and organizing their international events.
The 2021 Report is now freely available to the public on the UIA’s website.
This 2021 Survey was made possible through the generous support of our sponsors: Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau, Seoul Tourism Organization, Polish Tourism Organisation - Poland Convention Bureau and VisitBritain.
For the next edition of the Survey, which will be launched in 2022, we will continue to explore and evaluate how international associations have reacted to the challenges of the global pandemic.
For more information, please contact Clara Fernández López: clara@uia.org
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International Meetings Statistics Report, 62nd edition |
Rankings & Trends. The Report provides two views of a sector now facing multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic; data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2020.
Download 62nd Edition Press Release Look inside 62nd Edition
For more information and for non-members to order: https://uia.org/publications/meetings-stats
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UIA Welcomes New Associate Member: Conference Advice |
Associate Member. The UIA extends a warm welcome to its newest Associate Member Conference ADVICE. Conference ADVICE offers modular scientific conference consulting, worldwide, live and virtual.
The team looks back on over 40 years of international experience in the planning of scientific conferences and is familiar with virtual conferencing and new meeting formats, with digital content platforms and with virtual exhibitions.
Conference ADVICE is happy to share its know-how when it comes to venue selection, technical implementation, organizational and content planning and also budgetary issues.
For more details on UIA Associate Membership, visit the UIA website or contact clara@uia.be.
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Why Oslo? |
By Kristin Guttormsen Overvaag, Oslo Enthusiast & Director of Conventions & Events at Visit Oslo
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Number of the month |
According to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the estimated annual global cost of moderately severe to severe pandemics is 570 billion USD. CEPI is a global partnership launched in 2017 to develop vaccines to stop future epidemics.
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