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New Report: IMEX 2022 Reached Net Zero Carbon Events Goals

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IMEX America Moves Toward a Sustainable Events Future IMEX America 2022 was the greenest one yet. A detailed report prepared by MeetGreen explained how the largest industry event made progress toward its Net Zero Carbon Events goal while pointing to even more improvements IMEX and other event organizers can make in the future.

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Brand USA Focus on MICE and Special Events Could Expand Annual Global Travel Beyond 90 Million in the Future

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Thats up 40% from 2022, but still about 15% below 2019 levels. Read More: Todays Best Practices for Visas and International Travel To understand what the increased traffic through Global Entry means for the meeting professional community, we asked the two executives what the strategy is for growing worldwide travel. In Washington, D.C.,

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Building a Circular Economy in Events: How Two Major Meetings Reimagined Sustainability

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Attendees volunteered in the Sustainability Hub at Greenbuild in Philadelphia, PA. Business events have long been designed with this one-off/single-use mentality. Gilham said the message is conveyed that its a sustainability not a budgetary decision. How can we adopt more of a reduce, reuse, recycle approach?

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Four Business Travel Trends and Forecasts Impacting Events in 2024

Event Marketer

And amid it all, sustainability watchdogs are championing corporate policies that are focused on monitoring their organizations’ overall business travel emissions. A number of organizations, event properties and venues are using sustainability campaigns and air emissions tools to help track and offset activities.

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Tips and Takeaways from the 20th Experiential Marketing Summit

Event Marketer

Winners Unveiled: The 2022 Ex Awards. Sustainability goals. The brand’s that are most successful in making strides in sustainability are those that are setting specific goals. Cisco’s sustainability strategy includes extensive goal-setting and deal-breakers, like designing to reduce waste by a specific percentage.

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More In-person Meetings in 2023, Says Amex GBT Forecast

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This is expected to continue well into 2023, according to a new report, “ 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast ,” by American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT). Global in-person attendance is predicted to rise 3.3% Read More : WTTC Survey Assesses Cities’ Sustainable Tourism Growth.

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UBQ Is Turning Garbage into Events

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UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. In collaboration with Palram, manufacturer of thermoplastic sheets (moldable plastic, essentially), PLANETech World 2022 , to be held in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept.