Convene by PCMA

JULY 9, 2021

In April, the Glasgow Convention Bureau became the first DMO to join Tourism Declares Climate Emergency. One industry that both contributes to global warming and suffers from its negative effects is tourism. For most associations, hosting meetings and conferences fall into their regular operations.

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Tourism Tourism Government Sustainability 105

Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last summer, Kai Hattendorf, managing director and CEO of UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, was one of a handful of global industry leaders to whom Kathleen Warden, director of conference sales at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, reached out for help. Those efforts, Warden told Hattendorf, were going nowhere.

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Affiliate Events Regulations Conference 98

AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2022

Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g., Transformation plans to reach so-called net-zero emissions by 2050 are developed and submitted. Sustainability in airline industry. How BAS and PMS integration works.

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Sustainability Technology Technology Travel 95

The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

From a citywide safety perspective, the biggest challenge, according to Kim Joosten, Deputy head of security host city for the ESC was, ‘The constantly changing rules and regulations about COVID-19. We started with all the preparations in 2019, but when we started again in 2020 we didn’t know what we are going to have in May 2021.

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Venue Government Sustainability Events 148