Monday, February 15, 2010
The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Friday, February 26, 2010
The UK’s Liverpool Convention Bureau has rebranded and launched a new marketing strategy.
“Liverpool has undergone so much change in the last few years, we needed to develop our services and branding to match,” said Carol O’Reilly, Liverpool Convention Bureau manager.
“We are in a fantastic position to open up the city and its [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The city of Liverpool and host venue BT Convention Centre, part of ACC Liverpool, last week hosted the prestigious Association of British Professional Conference Organisers Annual Conference, 21-23 January 2010.
Titled ‘Change Matters’, the three-day conference which drew over 50 high-profile conference and event organisers looked at how professional organisers [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The arctic weather that has gripped the nation over the past couple of weeks has led to a rise in claims for the cancellation of trade fairs and conferences, says specialist event insurer Hiscox.
As many as 1 in 10* people may have missed work last week, as much of Britain was blanketed in thick snow [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
A year round governmental campaign, ‘Keep Britain Talking’, aims to raise the profile of the UK meetings and events industry to encourage business in the UK to keep communicating through such means. As part of this initiative, Rose McDonald from Wyboston Lakes conference and training centres recently spoke at Thames Valley University to help promote [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
The team at Nottingham Conferences has committed to making conferences and events as green as possible across its portfolio by signing up to the University of Nottingham’s recent initiative; ‘Environmental Champions.’
The Environmental Champions Network was launched to encourage individuals from departments across the University to communicate and share ideas on environmental best practice and to [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
The idea of charging a fee for video and audio from conferences and events is old, and comes from the days of charging for tapes of presentations as a way of boosting revenue from live events. Those days are over.
Today, sitting in little old South River, Ontario, Canada I’m watching the live streaming event LeWebfrom [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Macdonald Hotels & Resorts’ conference booker’s scheme, ‘Live Like a Queen’ has generated just over £5.5 million in event enquiries since its launch nine months ago.
The popular scheme, which has been recently extended until March 2010, was launched by the hotel group as a means of thanking its customers, whilst providing an added incentive [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
London has seen off tough global competition to host the prestigious 2011 international SportAccord Convention, raising prospects of a multi-million boost for the capital’s economy.
The SportAccord Convention will see over 1,500 of the world’s top sporting officials and business people from more than 60 countries come to the capital for the six-day event. The convention [...]
Friday, October 23, 2009
By Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future
The event industry has been hit hard by the current recession but, while it is not expected to return to strenght soon, all is not lost. The following are my top ten key developments I expect the industry to undergo next year:
1. New Product Explosion – We will see a massive [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Some of Scotland’s most innovative and cutting-edge events organisers were honoured on friday night at an awards ceremony in Glasgow.
The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) scooped the Grand Prix for Event Services in recognition of its work at the forefront of Scotland’s international events industry.
Ben Goedegebuure, director of sales for the Glasgow arena, said: [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
Square Meal will bring a social networking element to its award-winning exhibition by hosting an event industry ‘Tweetup’ (a drinks reception exclusive to Twitter users) at its fifth annual ‘Square Meal’s Venues & Events’ show.
The networking event, hosted by Venues & Events editor Annica Wainwright and her team, will be held as part of the [...]
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Conference organisers staging events at the Harrogate International Centre (HIC) will benefit from improved services at Leeds Bradford airport, according to the venue’s director.
Stuart Quin, chief at the HIC, said that Ryanair’s recent announcement that it is to add 14 new routes and 63 additional flights every week at the travel hub will boost the [...]
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
WORCESTERSHIRE presentation and communication company the drpgroup from Hartlebury added to its roster of satisfied customers after staging the Strategic Risk Awards in Berlin.
The event saw 160 risk industry professionals from across Europe gather for the annual event, organised by Strategic Risk magazine, and the evening passed off so successfully that the company has already [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Hamish McRae, Ruby Wax and Kelvin MacKenzie will be delivering the keynotes at this year’s International Confex show from 24-26 February 2009 at Earls Court. They will be sharing some insight into the economy, their backgrounds, as well as imparting words of wisdom and hoping to inspire the audience as part of the free [...]
Friday, January 9, 2009
The boss of Manchester’s Out There Events believes that the current economic down-turn will prove to be good news for the events industry.
Marcia Incarico’s comments come as the company wins four new contracts to be delivered before the end of the year.
“We are experiencing one of our busiest times in terms of pitching, so business [...]
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
ABTA will not hold a series of UK events for travel agents next year to replicate its overseas conference as originally planned.
The news follows the recent announcement that the 2009 Travel Convention will be held in Barcelona.
At this year’s convention in Gran Canaria, chief executive Mark Tanzer outlined plans for an additional series of two [...]
