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Smart Travel: New Dubai Hotels Focus on Luxury, Reed & Mackay Expands to France, Customized Travel Study Analyzes Key Players and More

Smart Meetings

The addition will be led by Barbara Labrit, head of meetings and events for France, who is based in Paris. Reed & Mackay has also recently expanded meetings and events operations in Spain, Italy and the Nordics, with its global events team growing from six to over 165 employees since 2019. “I

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Smart Travel: New Dubai Hotels Focus on Luxury, Reed & Mackay Expands to France, Customized Travel Study Analyzes Key Players and More

Smart Meetings

The addition will be led by Barbara Labrit, head of meetings and events for France, who is based in Paris. Reed & Mackay has also recently expanded meetings and events operations in Spain, Italy and the Nordics, with its global events team growing from six to over 165 employees since 2019. “I

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SwissSkills Bern 2022 – Shaping the future for young people 

The MICE Blog

The experiential event format will showcase 150 professions and will allow attendees to engage directly with the employers and ask questions of current apprentices in the programmes. . The EuroSkills and WorldSkills events are two global events in which young people compete to showcase their skills and win gold medals for their countries.

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Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge Launches With Broad Industry Support

Convene by PCMA

With the launch of the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge on Nov. 10 during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, a wide-ranging network of global events industry players has united to fight climate change with the ultimate goal of eliminating the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Global events strengthen ADNEC growth for Q1 of 2012

Travel Daily Media

The post Global events strengthen ADNEC growth for Q1 of 2012 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. ADNEC (Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre) welcomed 64 events during the first quarter of the year with exhibitions, conferences, meetings and weddings at the venue, attracting more than 125,000 visitors.

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How UFI’s Kai Hattendorf Helped Launch the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge

Convene by PCMA

At the time, Hattendorf was chair of the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC), an advocacy organization made up of major international trade associations affiliated with the business events industry. 10, when Hattendorf announced the pledge to the world at COP26, there were 109 signatories, a figure that had grown to 225 by mid-2022. “The

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Are You Delivering What the Next-Gen Attendee Wants?

Convene by PCMA

By 2030, three-quarters of meeting attendees will be categorized as Millennials and Gen Z, he said. The big story we’ve been following is the conversation around the next generation,” he said, which is bringing not just demographic changes to the events landscape, but dramatic shifts in values compared to previous generations. “The

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