Category: Road Show & Conference News
Internal relations emerges as key challenge facing in-house PCOs at ABPCO round table
Making a business case internally for event resources and cross departmental support emerged as a key challenge facing many in-house professional conference organisers at ABPCO’s round table event held at the QEII Conference Centre this week. Attended by conference organisers from some of the UK’s largest associations, including UCAS, British Association of Dermatologists, British Small [...]
Robinson College Shortlisted For Prestigious National Award
Staff in the Conference Office at Robinson College Cambridge are celebrating being shortlisted for one of this year’s coveted Conference Awards. The College is through to the last eight in the ‘Best Venue Customer Service ’ category in the Conference Awards 2013, the only academic venue in the listing. The entry required Robinson to meet [...]
Venues urged to consider alternative Wi-Fi revenue models during ABPCO Wi-Fi debate at International Confex
Venues, PCOs and technology providers came together at International Confex last week to explore how to develop models for offering Wi-Fi free of charge to conference delegates as part of the ABPCO Conference Cloud campaign. The session, hosted by ABPCO Head of External Relations Michael Foreman, featured a panel made up of William Jones of [...]
UKEIS profile findings show geographical spread, shape, size and scale of UK Meetings Industry for the first time
The first of the UK Economic Impact Study (UKEIS) results were announced by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Foundation at International Confex today. The results, which provide a detailed profile of the UK meetings and events industry, are the first of their kind. Key profile findings include: Over 1,301,600 meetings took place in the UK and [...]
Conventional conference venues driving unconventional prices
Hotels that are traditionally busy during the winter months hosting conferences and other services such as meetings and events, are offering unusual seasonal discounts to encourage business, whilst less conventional venues are increasing in popularity, according to ConferencesGroup, the umbrella brand for the UKs top venue finding services, Conferences-UK.org.uk, ConferenceVenues.com and CorporateDesk. Discounts of up [...]
Senate House boosts conference and events catering offering
Senate House, the art deco centrepiece of the University of London, has completed a £600,000 refurbishment of its kitchen, in time for the busy Christmas period. The renovation, completed this week, 3rd December 2012, has taken place over the past five months and will see the Bloomsbury venue increase its service speed, menu choice and [...]
53% of U.S. conference attendees plan to attend a conference in the next six months.
Conference Houndtm , the global conference discovery platform, today launched the Conference Hound Index or Houndexsm. The Houndexsm is the result of extensive online interviews of adult Americans and is intended to serve as a quarterly leading indicator of attendee intent for the conference and trade show industry. The survey was conducted by Survata, an independent online [...]
Event Marketing Solutions Launches European Lab-On-Wheels For Ab Sciex
Event Marketing Solutions (EMS) is taking a global life sciences technology firm on the road to engage food safety testing, biomedical research and pharmaceutical brands across Europe. AB SCIEX, the world leader in life science analytical technologies, commissioned a specially-designed laboratory-on-wheels from EMS for a tour of European countries to promote mass spectrometers to new [...]
Aztec in force at World Travel Market 2012
Aztec Event Services has mustered its considerable resources for World Travel Market, 5-8 November 2012, at ExCeL London. World Travel Market (WTM), produced by Reed Exhibitions Ltd., is one of the leading global events for the travel industry, a four-day business-to-business event for UK and International travel professionals. Building on previous successes at WTM, Aztec [...]
The Brighton Centre increases Internet Bandwidth by 1900%
The largest purpose built conference venue in the South of England upgrades connectivity to 200Mbps for the 2012 conference season. The Brighton Centre, which this year completed a £1m refurbishment designed to enhance the venue’s appeal, announced it has installed a 200 Mbps (megabits per second) Internet connection. The installation allows The Brighton Centre to [...]
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