Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 15, 2021
After postponing its Women in MICE Awards in 2020, 3S Media, together with Meetings magazine and theplanner.guru, officially launched this yearโs Awards during a virtual event hosted on GoToWebinar. The launch took place on 11 March 2021, during...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 14, 2021
BestCities, the Global Alliance of business events destinations, has announced three new appointments to its board, who will take up these positions in May 2021. These are: Kit Lykketoft, Director of Conventions at Wonderful Copenhagen, who will...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 11, 2021
Leading exhibition and event organiser Synergy Business Events is proud to announce the directorship appointment of Phetogo Kubheka. Kubheka will join Director Martina Komane and Managing Director Tiisetso Tau on the companyโs executive team. Tau...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 7, 2021
The Restart Expo was organised by Specialised Exhibitions, a division of Montgomery Group, and the Johannesburg Expo Centre (JEC) on the behalf of the South African exhibition industry. At the helm was Charlene Hefer, Portfolio Director: Mining...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 7, 2021
The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) recently held its 2019/20 Annual General Meeting (AGM), which gave some insights into how the venue has adapted to the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the events industry. During the AGM,...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 28, 2021
Get the weekโs MICE industry news highlights in a quick 2-minute video, brought to you by The Planner. This week we share Stats SAโs findings that hospitality venues lost R15.5 billion in revenue in 2020 compared to the previous year, and...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 26, 2021
It is common knowledge that the full tourism value chain has been badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, but seeing this impact in numbers in a recently released TBCSA report is grim. Prior to the second wave, in October 2020, an International...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 24, 2021
The SA Events Council, a coalition of 14 South African events industry associations, was created during theย Covid-19 pandemic to showcase the immense value of events and lobby for greater support fromย government and other stakeholders. For example,...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 21, 2021
SAACI, the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry, ran an Industry Pulse Survey in December 2020 which they have made publically available. At the time of the survey, whenย South Africa was in Enhanced Alert Level 1 which allowed...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 15, 2021
UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has made a call for entries for two of its awards;ย the UFI Digital Innovation Award and theย UFI Sustainable Development Award. Both awards are open to all companies from the exhibition...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 15, 2021
Get the weekโs MICE industry news highlights in a quick 2-minute video, brought to you by The Planner. This week we look at RwandAir’s temporary suspension of flights to 3 African destinations; the announcement by the Canadian Surgery Forum...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 11, 2021
The damage that the Covid-19 pandemic caused the international exhibition industry in 2020 has been put into figures by UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. This includes the following findings: Exhibition industry revenue...
