Community Building Milestones Over A Decade of Sustainability
Community building is a multidimensional process, which aims at maintaining and improving the well-being of individuals, communities, and society as a whole. In our industry, bringing people together under one roof for attending a type of event is one thing, but does not attribute wholly to the concept of ‘building a community’. Meetings and events are […]
Lessons from a decade of dedication
It’s amazing to reflect that we started our sustainability journey over 10 years ago. Since then, the world has changed significantly, and aside from an increasingly isolated American President, the world’s governments’ and businesses are united in the need to tackle climate change, environmental degradation and social challenges head on. But what has changed for […]
Part II: The Rising C’s of our Urban Future
Last week we presented Part I of this two-part article: The Rising C’s of our Urban Future. Part I revealed the first four “C’s” as trending issues for destinations and cities of the future. Part II of this article discusses the last three: 5. Citizen Involvement The Smart City agenda until recently has been very […]
Part I: The Rising C’s of Our Urban Future
Cities have been the engines of knowledge, productivity and growth throughout history, and will be essential to the future competitiveness of nations and regions. As Smart City implementations become more mainstream, the market is now entering into a new phase: an important period where cities must engage all stakeholders and in particular the citizen to […]
An exclusive preview of insights from upcoming Destination Whitepaper – to be launched at IMEX
Over the past year research has been ongoing into pioneering thinking in sustainable destination management. Below are 4 of the key trends to be discovered in the soon-to-be-released whitepaper from the 2016 Global Destination Sustainability Index: Targeted Storytelling Advertising is out, storytelling is in. DMOs are segmenting consumer profiles and developing more reactive […]
Politics – the 21st century battleground for Corporate Values
The new President of the United States has brought us a few changes already, many bringing dismay to the population and leading to protests across the US, from cities, to airports to most recently- college campuses. A wave of morose resistance is rising and there is a growing citizen response across America and the globe. Amongst all […]
Sustainability driving innovation in better meetings
Many great things came out of the recent European Sustainable Event Conference in Copenhagen but this great video sums up the key points and delivers some of the energy from that event. The early adopters have known it for a while but here we have a selection of them on record sharing their expertise and […]
Power of simplicity
Innovation is often best when it’s simple. The following video is a great example of how a strong sustainability program forces an organization to reconsider conventional ways of working and rethink to improve the environmental, social and economic impact of its action. The case is in hand is with the London Olympics. Here David Stubbs, […]
