Over the last few weeks quiet a few people have asked me what they think will be the key sustainability trends in 2010. So for a keynote presentation today at MICE Travel Fair in Amsterdam, I made my first attempt at summarising some of the key aspects of change that will progressively transform the meetings [...]
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In continuation to last post, in Mexico i gave a second keynote at the National Tourism Congress about Creating and marketing sustainable destinations. In the attached presentation I talk about Risk and opportunities presented to Smart destinations around the “sustainability revolutions” Provide some examples of destinations who are leading the market Provide a framework that [...]
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Just got back from the Mexican Business Tourism Congress in Villahermosa. The Mexican government is waking up to the need of sustainability in the Tourism industries. This was the first “green” event organised to start a needed discussion about the future. Clearly Mexico has its problems, but several cities, businesses and the national certification authority [...]
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In preparation of the UN climate change conference cop15, the city of Copenhagen and the national meetings industry stakeholders are making a serious commitment to greening their wonderful city. In the attached presentation you can hear Jan-Christoph Napierski, head of Greening for COP15, talk about his challenges and priorities to increase the sustainability of the [...]
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Hugo Kimber of the Carbon Consultancy and I joined forced to give a combined training course on how to measure sustainability data in events and meetings. This was delivered as a workshop at the MPI event in Turin. Below is the presentation. If you would like to see the presentation with a recorded audio accompaniment [...]
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This week I had the pleasure to give a keynote at Green Meetings Germany. This was the most important event so far in Germany about sustainability in the meetings, events and exhibitions industry. It was held in the World Conference Center in Bonn, which was the former home of the German Parliament before it was [...]
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Last week I had the honor and the pleasure of speaking at the IAPCO general meeting. IAPCO (International Association of Professional Congress Organisers) is a non-profit organisation that represents professional organisers and managers of international and national congresses, conventions and special events. Following their objective of “raising standards of service and providing continuing education to [...]
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Following on my Michaels post earlier, I wanted to attached a presentation that we created to really define the business case for sustainability in the meetings industry. The presentation details the opportunities and costs benefits using a whole list of research data collected by us and many of the global top publications and consulting organisations. [...]
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With the growing trend of sustainability, many destinations are now preparing themselves as “green meeting destinations”. In 2008, we increasingly started to work with DMOs and CVBs who wanted to go green. Not surprisingly cities are seeing that green has financial, branding and motivational benefits. The following presentation highlights the high level findings of some [...]
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