Antois-Leigh Nepgen | Jul 8, 2025
ILTM Africa today announced a major expansion for its 2026 event, becoming the first luxury travel marketplace on the continent to serve both inbound and dedicated outbound opportunities focused on the Middle East. The move responds to rapid growth...
Shanna Jacobsen | May 29, 2025
The Events Industry Council (EIC) and the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC)ย announced a new collaboration last week to align efforts in three critical areas:ย advocacy, research,ย and advancingย sustainability and ESG efforts, ensuringย maximum...
Shanna Jacobsen | May 28, 2025
The Perfections Group has joined forces with Lalibela Wildlife Reserve to bring purpose-driven safaris to Australasia. The Perfections Group will represent Lalibela across Australia and New Zealand, introducing the regionโs travel trade and...
Shanna Jacobsen | May 27, 2025
An exciting new industry report, The Future of Venues, was recently released. With feedback from more than 1 000 venue professionals based across five continents, the report is a collaboration between Momentus Technologies and Boldpush. โWe are...
Shanna Jacobsen | May 19, 2025
With the election for the next Secretary-General of UN Tourism just weeks away, leading candidate, Gloria Guevara, has set out a decisive new proposal to mobilise former tourism ministers as a global force for positive change. If elected to lead...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 25, 2025
As we look ahead to the 2025 IFES World Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico (June 17-20), the International Federation of Exhibition and Event Services (IFES) is excited to reveal highlights from the upcoming programme. This yearโs theme, Transforming...
lizette.jonker@3smedia.co.za | May 19, 2023
Earlier this year a list of the 10 most expensive cities for business trips in the world was published. Try these 5 tips to stretch your rands when travelling for business. The 10 most expensive cities in the world for business travel have been...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 29, 2022
Together with the Government of Barbados, Afreximbank will host the first-ever Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum to take place at the beginning of September. Under the banner of โOne People, One Destiny: Uniting and Reimagining Our...
Jul 8, 2022
Since 2001, the UFI Marketing Committee has organised the โUFI Marketing Awardโ, whose main purpose is to reward the best marketing initiatives undertaken by exhibition professionals. Since 2006 this competition is open to UFI members and...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 26, 2022
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2022 held in Kigali, Rwanda, ended on Saturday, 25 June 2022, with various heads of state and government expressing their commitment to an aligned vision for the future of The Commonwealth. Following its...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 10, 2022
M&A activity within the event tech space continues, with the latest acquisition of eventcore by the recently merged MeetingPlay + Aventri conglomerate. Event tech solutions group, MeetingPlay + Aventri (MPAV), announced yesterday that it had...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 7, 2022
On the back of several successful mergers and acquisitions of companies within the meeting and events software space in 2021, MeetingPlay and Aventri have announced that they will be consolidating their respective offerings into one entity. There...