Stories for destinations

Stories for destinations

by | 19.03.2020 | CIM 2020/1, Product

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...
Future scenarios

Future scenarios

by | 18.03.2020 | CIM 2020/1, 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...
Better prepared through an effort to anticipate

Better prepared through an effort to anticipate

by | 16.03.2020 | CIM 2020/1, Focus

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....
Nature and the human factor

Nature and the human factor

by | 11.03.2020 | CIM 2020/1, CIM 2020/5, Focus

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...
Digital and sustainable

Digital and sustainable

by | 10.03.2020 | CIM 2020/1, CIM 2020/5, Focus

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...