Frankfurt, 20 May 2013 After presentations from the two shortlisted destinations, Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia, and the Czech Republic capital Prague, ICCA President Arnaldo Nardone on behalf of the ICCA Board of Directors today announced at the mid-year ICCA meeting held alongside IMEX,
Frankfurt am Main – The Italian State Tourist Board ENIT will participate in the 11th edition of IMEX, a major promotions platform for the international meetings industry.
The rapidly expanding Group of 20 PCOs will for the first time exhibit at IMEX 2013. The Alliance was formed 4 years ago and holds now 20 member PCOs.
IMEX in Frankfurt 2013 will see the launch of a new education and networking event designed specifically for corporate meeting planners and senior corporate executives.
Fukuoka City in Japan and Davao City in the Philippines have both been selected as winners of the IMEX in Frankfurt Wild Card competition for 2013.
With the international, award-winning meetings, incentive travel and events industry trade show, IMEX in Frankfurt, just two months away, the IMEX Group has announced the full education line-up for its hallmark Association Day, which takes place at the Messe Frankfurt Congress Center on Monday 20th May.
Cites Collaboration With Key Suppliers & MeetGreen® as Critical Success Factor
Following the successful test and roll-out of a new, single email inbox for hosted buyers at IMEX America last year, the IMEX Group is introducing the same concept for all hosted buyers at IMEX in Frankfurt 21- 23rd May 2013.
- Education programme news; hot topics and speakers
Scientifically valid research conducted by the IMEX Group in partnership with the Meetology® Group has found that face-to-face meetings significantly outperform both video and voice-only when it comes to generating creative ideas.
The launch of a new pre-show education and networking event for corporate buyers, the introduction of a new hosted buyer email service and a new German language seminar programme are just three of the features making up a strong IMEX in Frankfurt 2013.
Analysis of business conducted by buyers at the second edition of IMEX America at the Sands Expo® in Las Vegas last October reveals that buyers placed – or expect to place – $3.3 billion of business as a result of attending the award-winning trade show.
Participation, Pricing, Political Prowess and Pursuit of Green With 2013 just around the corner, the IMEX Group (organizers of two award-winning annual exhibitions – IMEX in Frankfurt and IMEX America in Las Vegas) offer their top 10 predictions on trends for the year ahead. 1.Face-to-Face is “phat” – Despite years of scaremongering to the contrary, live [...]
The IMEX Group has issued a public report on the findings of the IMEX Politicians Forum discussion held during IMEX in Frankfurt in May this year. With meetings and business events integral to the development of knowledge-based economies and increasingly central to the prosperity and future growth of nations and cities around the world, the [...]
The German capital presents its meeting and convention offer at IMEX America Berlin, 5 October 2012 “Berlin – the place to be for conventions”: the visitBerlin Berlin Convention Office (BCO) is presenting Berlin as a destination for conventions at IMEX America in Las Vegas, together with nine providers from the hotel and event industry. Following [...]
London & Partners the official promotional organisations and convention bureau for London are inviting IMEX America visitors to ‘win a wheel’ of amazing London experiences in one prize. To showcase the vast range of new events, hotels and venues which are opening in London in late 2012 and throughout 2013, London & Partners have created a [...]
Asia’s largest integrated resort city to be represented at prominent meetings industry exhibition (Macao, October 3, 2012) – Sands® Cotai Macao will showcase its five international hotel brands, including the newly-opened Sheraton Macao, Cotai Central, at IMEX America in Las Vegas, America’s worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events, whichwill run the largest hosted buyer programme ever held [...]
Over the past 12 months organizers of IMEX America, the biggest trade show in the US for the meetings, incentive travel and events industry, have focused on enhancing the winning formula of business-building, value, networking and education that saw the trade show launch to such positive effect last year. As the second edition of the [...]
Booth #424 features more than 36 co-exhibitors; Press conference slated for Wednesday New York, N.Y. — September 26, 2012: Building on its success at last year’s inaugural IMEX America, the German Convention Bureau (GCB) is returning to IMEX America 2012, which runs October 9 – 11 in Las Vegas. The GCB booth, #424, is 20 [...]
U.S. Travel Association’s Roger Dow, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, and Rossi Ralenkotter of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to Speak at First Ever IMEX America Political Advocacy Forum Continuing its efforts to raise the political bar of the meetings industry and build broader awareness of its strong role in creating jobs and [...]
Results from the latest IMEX America Index of Optimism suggest that North American buyers and suppliers remain firmly optimistic about future business prospects despite having to face up to continued economic challenges. Just over 312 buyers and suppliers responded to the survey which was undertaken by the IMEX Group in July. (Total respondents: 312. Buyers [...]
- ‘Conference within a conference’ promises to put association planners ahead of the rest with new market-leading education and personal development education With a full day of professional development lined-up plus business leadership expert and author, Mark Sanborn, confirmed as keynote speaker, IMEX America’s Association Focus event will make a high-powered start to the award-winning [...]
Apple devices accounted for almost 80% of respondents favored technology platforms. When asked “which device would you most want to be stranded on a desert island with – given a good signal?” – the iPhone triumphed with 39% of respondents, whilst the iPad came a very close second for 37% of those surveyed. Although the [...]
A strong debut from IMEX America last year has resulted in significant increases from exhibitors and buyers for the award-winning trade show this coming 9 – 11 October at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas. Of contracts so far received, 20% of those who exhibited at the first show are returning with even bigger booths. [...]
In line with its principles of consistently reducing environmental impact, organizers of IMEX America, the IMEX Group, have announced key results from the inaugural Las Vegas show’s first sustainability program. The report was conducted by IMEX America’s sustainability consultants, MeetGreen®. During the debut of IMEX America in October 2011 in Las Vegas, the IMEX Group [...]
Having conducted extensive surveys and one-to-one feedback among both hosted buyers and buyer-attendees following the inaugural IMEX America last Fall, the IMEX Group is now set to introduce a range of new services and upgrades to enhance the trade show experience for both groups. Last October almost 1,000 non-hosted industry buyers – known as buyer-attendees [...]
Frankfurt, Germany – The 10th anniversary edition of IMEX in Frankfurt, the award-winning trade show for the worldwide meetings, incentive travel and events industry, closed on a strong note today, with IMEX Group Chairman, Ray Bloom, announcing a 21% rise in the number of individual buyer appointments with exhibitors during the show. In total over [...]
Airy Garrigosa, until very recently Director of the Barcelona Convention Bureau and serving as ECM Board member received the best recognition in the Meetings Industry. Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC) President Philippe Fournier has announced the winner of the 2012 JMIC Unity Award as Airy Garrigosa who formally received the award at the IMEX Awards [...]
Business events, as part of an aligned economic development strategy, can be a resource for achieving government objectives, say The Hon Nick Greiner AC, Chairman of Infrastructure NSW, and Lyn Lewis-Smith, CEO of Business Events Sydney. Presenting on this topic at the IMEX Politician’s Forum in Frankfurt last week, Ms Lewis-Smith and Mr Greiner addressed [...]
Frankfurt, Germany, May, 2012 – The US Green Building Council (USGBC) was announced as winner of the large meeting category of the IMEX Green Meeting Awards, presented at the IMEX Gala Dinner last week. The Award recognised its Greenbuild International Conference and Expo 2011, making the USGBC a record four-time IMEX Award winner, having won [...]
During the ICCA Member Networking Reception at the second day of the 10th edition of IMEX in Frankfurt last week, ICCA and IMEX celebrated 10 years of partnership. “ICCA is extremely proud to have been one of IMEX’s founding partners and, over the last 10 years, we have used the show to create our most [...]
The 10th IMEX in Frankfurt trade show opens today (May 22nd at Messe Frankfurt) with its traditional focus on generating strong business opportunities for buyers and exhibitors, high-level networking events and its largest ever professional development programme. 20 new hosted buyer groups have joined the hallmark IMEX hosted programme this year, which is set to [...]
This year’s IMEX, the leading world-wide exhibition for meetings, events and incentive travel, will be attended by the HBAA, where the association will divulge its International Charter and how overseas hotels and venues can benefit from the buying power of the UK’s most influential agencies. The International Charter represents a mark of integrity and understanding [...]
Gdansk Convention Bureau created a mobile application for tablets and smartphones. The advantage of Gdansk the app – GCBeVENTS is its availability for all mobile systems: Android, iOS (iPhone), Blackberry and Windows Mobile. The premiere of app prototype will be held at IMEX business tourism fair in Frankfurt, May 22-25, 2012. The app allows delegates to [...]
The 10th anniversary edition of IMEX in Frankfurt, opening next Tuesday May 22nd at Messe Frankfurt, is set to be the most televised and ‘talked about’ in the show’s 10 year history. The launch of IMEX TV – sponsored by Iguassu Falls, Brazil – today’s release of the updated IMEX App and a variety of [...]
Are the days of marketing a destination in traditional tourism terms numbered? How are cities finding new ways to harness the intellectual resources in their local universities and institutions? How can meetings management companies authentically position themselves as intellectual partners and not just logistics providers? ICCA’s Breakfast Seminar at IMEX looks at numerous examples of [...]
Meetings and events industry business and optimism is on the rise according to a group of North American buyers and suppliers surveyed in the latest IMEX America Index of Optimism, the IMEX Group announced today. Conducted in Q1 the Index asked 200 respondents to describe their mood over the previous six months and covered topics [...]
Visitors to the Meet Estonia stand (F270) at this year’s IMEX fair can be among the first in the world to try out Skype Station, an ultramodern communication booth that lets users make free video calls via the internet. Developed by the Estonian company AdTech, the stylishly-designed station not only works as a phone booth [...]
Wednesday 22 May, 08.45 at IMEX, Frankfurt The IAPCO / IPCAA Seminar “How do you fit into the healthcare congress stakeholder chain?” is certain to cause controversy and perhaps even discord ! Martin Jensen, of H. Lundbeck, representing ICPAA, will review, amongst others; Would you listen to what a convention bureau has to say? Is there a trend [...]
Asia’s largest integrated resort city to be represented at prominent meetings industry exhibition (Macao, May 3, 2012) – Sands® Cotai Macao will showcase its five international hotel brands in a newly designed booth this year at IMEX Frankfurt, the international show where the global meetings industry continues to do business while maximising connections and networking opportunities, featuring [...]
ICCA announces destination for 2016 Congress
Frankfurt, 20 May 2013 After presentations from the two shortlisted destinations, Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia, and the Czech Republic capital Prague, ICCA President Arnaldo Nardone on behalf of the ICCA Board of Directors today announced at the mid-year ICCA meeting held alongside IMEX,
Smartphone and Tablets Prompt Mobile Rethink, WTM Round Table Concludes
The move away from desktops towards smartphones and tablets is changing how the travel industry uses technology to connect with today’s multi-device consumer, concluded board-level travel industry participants at the recent World Travel Market Round Table into the Future of Mobile.
ICCA 2012 statistics: international association sector shows significant growth
With the release of the 2012 Top 20 Rankings for cities and countries, ICCA is reporting another year of continued strength in the international association meetings market.
Record £5.3b spent by APMEA countries in 2012 representing 28% of UK’s inbound tourism revenue
VisitBritain kicked-off its flagship international travel trade event, Destination Britain 2013, in Bangkok. Celebrating its 10th year, the tourism gathering will open with a record 35% of new suppliers, showcasing their strongest UK travel and tourism offerings.
World’s Second Largest LGBT Tourism Market Comes Out at WTM Latin America
Brazil’s USD$23 Billion Gay Travel Market – World’s Second Largest LGBT Tourism Market Comes Out at WTM Latin America
Bosch TownHall Meeting 2013 with VOK DAMS China
The experts for events and live marketing from VOK DAMS China have realized the TownHall Meeting 2013 for their client Bosch in Wuxi.
Seth Mattison to keynote on day two of AIBTM 2013 in Chicago
Educating Attendees on How to “Rock the Workplace”
Keynote Speakers Deliver Context for AIPC 2013 in Cape Town
The lineup of exemplary speakers on hand for the 2013 AIPC Annual Conference in Cape Town, South Africa this coming July 1-3 will provide delegates with a comprehensive insight into how the country is emerging as a major factor in both the global economy and the meetings industry.
