Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Accor Survey: “Meeting Expectations: The Future of Meetings & Events” World-leading hospitality group Accor operates a diverse hospitality group of over 40 hotel brands, from luxury to economy. Sophie Hulgard, Chief Sales Officer at Accor, says, “The total global meetings industry worldwide is forecast to be worth $1.78

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Event organisers believe that the number of dietary requirements amongst delegations will grow from 20%, in 2020, to 40% by 2030, according to research by Lime Venue Portfolio. The survey is behind the launch of Lime Venue Portfolio’s Meetings for Change package, which now offers organisers access to credible and sustainable menu options.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 17, 2024

ASM Global Europe, a leader in venue management and event strategy, will be attending The Meetings Show 2024 this week, where eight of its leading venues will be exhibiting. In particular, the teams at The Meetings Show will be showcasing the portfolio’s comprehensive conferences, meetings and events capabilities.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

As an award-winning leading UK academic venue, Keele University Events & Conferencing have just been awarded a ‘Green Meetings Gold Accreditation.’

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

BeaconHouse Events, a leading events agency in Newcastle upon Tyne, has launched the first of its Sustainability Supply Chain roundtables, bringing together key regional events industry suppliers to discuss how the sector can work together to reduce our event carbon, meet sustainability targets, and drive sector-wide change.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 29, 2024

The Venues Collection (TVC) will be participating in The Meetings Show this June to showcase its commitment to sustainability and its innovative dessert range that is made without dairy ingredients. Visit The Venues Collection at The Meetings Show on stand D63 to experience first-hand its pioneering sustainability initiatives.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 20, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus will continue its one meeting one tree promise at The Meetings Show next week with every business appointment, taking place on the venue’s stand, earning a tree planted in the Caledonian Forest. Through the meetings next week, the venue is looking to continue to build on that figure. “We

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 4, 2024

Confidence in the future growth and sustainability of the business meetings and events sector is returning, according to the Meetings Industry Association ’s (MIA) latest mia Insights. Similarly, 38% of organisations carry out social impact assessments.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

billion gallons by 2030, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. As a result of such policies, potential participants of meetings and conventions must determine whether there is sufficient value in attending, putting pressure on event hosts to show the return on investment from the in-person experience.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

With all the Covid-related layoffs and corporate downsizing, it might not look like the best time to get into the meetings and events industry. The Philadelphia-based university hopes to graduate flexible professionals prepared to manage both in-person and virtual events.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 9, 2019

The United Nations want to know how it can help the meetings industry better reach its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. PCMA already has committed to working with other industry associations and organizations, including the Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau, toward reducing the impact of meetings on the environment.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 25, 2022

The Meetings Show has pledged to reach Net Zero by 2050, cutting carbon emissions by 50% by 2030, in signing the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge. Jack Marczewski, event director of The Meetings Show, said: “It is vital that the events industry works together to achieve the net zero goal. Progress will be reported.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The industry can anticipate the need for investment in education and skills as their workforce looks towards welcoming millions of graduates and adding 800,000 jobs requiring vocational training by 2030. trillion investment opportunity in the green buildings sector by 2030. They can also look to investing in sustainable infrastructure.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Lime Venue Portfolio has launched a new initiative to meeting and event organisers that will underline its commitment to sustainability within the industry. Meetings for Change has now taken the learnings from this, and other initiatives within the business, and grounded them in a series of commitments to its customers.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

emissions-reduction conference, the Joint Meetings Industry Council has developed goals and strategies for drastically reducing carbon from events in the coming years. Construct an industry-wide roadmap towards net zero by 2050, and emissions reductions by 2030 in line with the Paris Agreement, with support and guidance on key issues.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

between 2023 and 2030, according to Grand View Research statistics. You can even use this data to recommend one-on-one or small group networking meetings with like-minded attendees who are a good ‘data match’, or who share similar goals from attending. The global virtual events sector was valued at roughly $78.53

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As 2024 fast approaches, we spoke to some of the business meetings and events industry’s leading figures to find out what they think the next 12 months will have in store for the sector. If we want to attract world-class business meetings and events, it’s essential that we market the UK as an accredited destination.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 8, 2022

It is within this context that the Joint Meetings Industry Council in 2021 committed to a net-zero carbon emissions target for the global events industry of no later than 2050; this also included a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030 (Joint Meetings Industry Council 2021a). So how do we get there?

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The event industry’s Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge requires signatories to commit to targets aligned with the Paris Climate Accord, which includes achieving a 50-percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 on the way to net zero emissions by 2050. 31 through Nov. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

The venue now employs two dedicated team members focused on driving the business’ sustainability ambitions including its commitment to Net Zero 2030. The venue announced its commitment to becoming a net zero campus by 2030 last year, having already unveiled its comprehensive sustainable food strategy.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2021

MGM’s target is to reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and source 100 percent renewable energy in the United States and 80 percent globally by 2030. The post MGM Resorts International Hits Sustainability Milestone appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Healthy Meeting Resources Help Planners Start Meaningful Discussions Looking for an easy way to keep everyone healthy when putting together an agenda? A History of Meeting Well The current focus on healthy meeting spaces is not the first time brands have gone beyond accommodating “dates and rates” to differentiate their spaces.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Meeting venues, airports, car manufacturers and hotels have all been making efforts to tackle the question of climate change and longevity in the hospitality industry. Some meeting venues just dabble in sustainability, while others make it their MO. The post Best of 2022: Sustainability appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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EventMB

JUNE 23, 2022

Members commit to meeting criteria that make their carbon reduction efforts credible and aligned with the global goal of halving emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. . The post New Carbon Guidelines Can Transform Events appeared first on Skift Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 21, 2024

The official theme for Earth Day 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastic,” a call to arms issued by Earthday.org to reduce all plastic production by 60 percent by 2040 and to rapidly phase out all single-use plastics by 2030.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 1, 2022

The initiative aims to connect the events industry, globally, to the rapidly growing movement towards net zero by 2050 and is already seeing an influx of momentum from across the meetings and events community. The Scottish Event Campus recently announced its own aspirations towards Net Zero by 2030.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2024

Vincent, launches November 5 Read More : New and Renovated: Meetings in International Cities The Top 3 Travel Startups Breaking the Charts With global travel making impressive gains since the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020, some startups in the industry are seeing a boom in funding and sales. billion to an expected valuation of $1.59

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Data Science for the SDGs” was the theme of the 2019 Data for Good Exchange hosted by Bloomberg in New York City, which looked at how data science projects can help make progress toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Bloomberg).

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2022

Yasmin Diamond, executive vice president of global corporate affairs at IHG, said in a statement, “Transitioning to bulk amenities across our global estate was one of our first significant steps towards eliminating single-use items throughout the guest stay by 2030.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

ASM Global Europe’s, Head of Sales – Associations, Steve Daun added: “The choice by the BOA to use our venues between now and 2030 is a real accolade for not just the wider organisation but also the individual venues and their teams. billion regeneration project.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The Rotterdam Experiment meets that challenge head-on. For the event industry this means, among other things, space for co-creation, longer and content driven sessions, deep, personal and professional stories, retreats and new forms of being together.”.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But according to new research from Freeman, released October 8 at IMEX, the event industry is not evolving fast enough to meet the needs of the next generation event goer. By 2030, Gen Z will account for 35 percent of the workforce, right behind Millennials (40 percent) and overtaking Gen X (20 percent) and Boomers (5 percent).

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Continuing to deliver measurable value for attendees, confirmed business meetings also rose by a phenomenal 17 per cent in 2024, with 34,082 pre- scheduled meetings facilitated, in contrast to the 29,075 that took place last year. It revealed that international tourism arrivals are expected to hit a record 1.5

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To achieve our goal of being working Carbon Neutral by 2030, we have set out targets and working practises that are believed to support our aim. Regular meeting and roundtables with industry peers and sharing of best practice. Regular meeting and roundtables with industry peers and sharing of best practice.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Over recent months, facilitated by the “Joint Meetings Industry Council” (JMIC), more than one hundred stakeholders from across the sector drafted and finalised this commitment with the support of UNFCCC Secretariat (United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change). This work has to be concluded by the end of 2023.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2024

Catherine Chaulet “Inflation continues to hit the meetings industry hard. MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) market is expected to grow by 7.8 percent between 2024 and 2030, according to Grand View Research, and the European market is on a similar track.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

With 34% of its scope 3 emissions arising from its 4,000 supply chain, Sodexo’s net zero supply chain engagement strategy provides a framework for its supply partners to undertake key steps showing tangible progress to decarbonise before 2030.

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