CIMunity: Conference & Incentive Management

Global DMC Partners’ free “Together at Home” Webinar Series continues

03/31/2020

During this time of social isolation and uncertainty, GDP offers a creative way for hospitality, meeting and event professionals to grow and learn...

COVID-19 crisis: Air France-KLM takes measures

03/30/2020

Faced with these growing restrictions on the possibility of travelling and a strong downward trend in demand which has resulted in a drop in traffic...

MEETinLEEDS strengthens its Sales team with new recruit

03/27/2020

The conference and events facilities for the University of Leeds, MEETinLEEDS, is bolstering its team with the appointment of a brand new Conference...

ICC Wales hosts ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter Conference 2020

03/27/2020

The ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter Annual Conference 2020 was held at the ICC Wales on 11th and 12th March. Over 100 venues, destinations and suppliers...

Positive Collaboration and Agility Champion over Adversity

03/26/2020

The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (the Centre) successfully hosted the recent Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the...

New NHS Nightingale Hospital to open at ExCeL London to fight Coronavirus

03/26/2020

A new hospital will open to provide support for thousands more patients with coronavirus, NHS England has announced.

We believe in the power of events - do you?

03/26/2020

Read the message from Gianluca Buongiorno, President AIM Group International.

ICCA: Stand together while we are far apart

03/25/2020

Read a message from ICCA-President James Rees.

IBTM Events launches online resource hub IBTM Connect

03/25/2020

IBTM Events today launches a new online platform, IBTM Connect, an online resource hub for business events professionals to access and share knowledge...

CIM 2020/1
Stories for destinations
Convention bureaus are using local networks and launching innovative destination marketing campaigns. Passion and creativity are often as effective as large budgets.
Initial contact. Clara Fernandez Lopez emphasised how important convention bureaus (CBs) are for association convention planners at the Union of International Associations (UIA) Round Table Europe in Brussels in November 2019. According to the UIA’s 2018 Survey on International Meetings Issues, 34 per cent of all associations worldwide are not...
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CIM 2020/1
Future scenarios
The BestCities Global Forum brings together partners and planners of international events. Its main topic is the future of the global association and meetings industry.
Sharing knowledge. The annual Global Forum of the BestCities Global Alliance takes place in Copenhagen from 8 to 11 December 2019. The federation of eleven convention bureaus has set itself the goal to “harness the power of collaboration and community to create positive impact through business events,” emphasises its new Managing Director Lesley...
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CIM 2020/1
Better prepared through an effort to anticipate
Professor Dr Ingo Rollwagen of the Design Faculty at Hochschule Fresenius on the challenges and opportunities of the 2020s
CIM: A new decade has started: can we expect the 2020s to be “golden” like the 1920s?
Professor Ingo Rollwagen: There is a chance the new decade will be the start of a digitally dynamic renaissance, one of greater awareness in both a material and a non-material sense. Structural change in information and knowledge technologies is leading to...
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CIM 2020/1
Nature and the human factor
People make the difference. Precision targeting must be the credo for organisers. The new appreciation of nature promotes sustainability, is inspirational and brings new insights.
Reorientation. “Reality shock means that we have to give up decades-old certainties because, among other things, we are being confronted with an overdose of world affairs and complexity,” says journalist Sascha Lobo, explaining the alarming title of his new German-language book “Realitätsschock” (reality shock). The acronym VUCA (volatility,...
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CIM 2020/1
Digital and sustainable
Data and digitalisation will be fertile ground in the new decade. ‧Future-oriented conferences are considering how sustainability and ethics can be taken into account.
Looking ahead. At the beginning of this new decade, what we need is a heightened focus on the challenges of a world that is becoming increasingly complex. The 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos closed with an urgent appeal to combine economic growth with environmental objectives. Uncurbed expansion and growth can no longer be allowed, given...
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CIM 2019/6
Five questions for Fiona Pelham
CIM: Is the industry aware of the Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) signed by 193 World Leaders at the UN in 2015?
Fiona Pelham: They are definitely becoming more aware! Over 40 per cent of the event professionals who took our survey in August, to make a commitment to act on the sustainable development goals, said they knew about the SDGs.
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Join the GMID Virtual Discussion

03/25/2020

Join the discussion on Tuesday, April 14 to unite the events industry on Global Meetings Industry Day: Virtual.

New dates for ISE and ISA as SITE launches Member Communications Campaign

03/24/2020

Today the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) announced re-scheduled dates for Incentive Summit Europe (ISE) and Incentive Summit Americas...

Meetings Mean Business Canada: Update on COVID-19 from MMBC Chair Clark Grue

03/24/2020

Read his message here.

A message from the PCMA Board Chairs

03/23/2020

Read their message here.

MPI: Emergency Preparedness for Events Certificate Program

03/23/2020

MPI’s Emergency Preparedness for Events Certificate Program gives you the tools you need to effectively plan for—and respond to—crisis situations and...