Silicon Valley-based start-up Wordly is the overall winner of the IBTM World Tech Watch Award. The People’s Choice Award winner of this competition is Lineup Ninja. The awards were presented on stage at IBTM World 2019, taking place this week at Fira Gran Via Barcelona from 19-21 November. Intelligent interpreting services Wordly was crowned the […]
IBTM on 19 November announced that it has signed a new three-year contract with Barcelona Convention Bureau and Fira de Barcelona that will see IBTM World take place in the city up to and including the 2022 edition. The new contract builds on the existing 15-year relationship between the three organisations, with the next edition […]
At the beginning of 2020, Dr. Jürgen Martin Amann will become Chief Executive Officer of KölnTourismus (Cologne Tourist Board), the official tourism organization of the city of Cologne. Amann is currently the Managing Director of Dresden Marketing and he was the Procurator and Head of Ingolstadt Tourismus und Kongress GmbH until 2018. He will succeed […]
Gothenburg is at the top among the world’s most sustainable cities for the fourth year in a row according to the Global Destination Sustainability Index 2019. This was revealed on Wednesday at ICCA World congress in Houston. Global Destination Sustainability Index The GDSI was launched by MCI-Group together with the international organisation ICCA. On Wednesday […]
ICCA announced Estonia Convention Bureau as the winner of the 22nd edition of the prestigious ICCA Best Marketing Award (BMA) at the Closing Ceremony of the 58th ICCA Congress on Wednesday 30 October 2019 in Houston, Texas, U.S.A.. Estonian Convention Bureau’s “Go Wild, Choose Estonia!” is a creative storytelling destination marketing campaign from a small […]
ACS audiovisual solutions has concluded a multi-year contract with the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) for the construction of temporary conference rooms and the delivery of audiovisual facilities. The 28th annual congress of the EADV, which took place from 9 to 13 October 2019 at the IFEMA congress center in Madrid, was the […]
Ulrike von Arnold, Deputy Director of the Vienna Convention Bureau received ICCA’s highest honour during the General Assembly at the 58th ICCA Congress in Houston, Texas, U.S.A.. Announcing the award, ICCA President James Rees said: “Ulrike von Arnold has given an immense amount of her time to ICCA, in particular in her involvement with ICCA’s […]
Maastricht, the Netherlands will be welcoming the World Conference on Explosives and Blasting (EFEE) in 2025. For three days in September 2025, MECC Maastricht will host this event with a full focus on explosives and blasting. The international conference is attended biannual by around 450 explosive engineers from all over the world. EFEE World Conference […]
IBTM has revealed a double bill of not one but two inspiring speakers for their third keynote speaker slot, as well as a brand new ‘TED talk’ style speaker showcase event for IBTM World 2019, taking place at Fira Barcelona from 19-21 November. Aric Dromi and Margarita Mayo The third keynote speaker session, taking place […]
IBTM has announced that Lucy Bloom, award-winning business expert, author and international master communicator, will be the second keynote speaker at IBTM World 2019, taking place at Fira Barcelona from 19-21 November. Doing Business Differently Lucy will deliver a high energy session titled ‘Doing Business Differently’, where she will take the audience on a roller […]
