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The Mexican Exhibition Market – a Conversation with José Navarro

José Navarro, General Director, E.J. Krause Tarsus de México and Chairman of the UFI Latin American Chapter. José Navarro, General Director, E.J. Krause Tarsus de México is also the Chairman of the UFI Latin American Chapter. He along with Paul St. Amour, Vice President of E.J. Krause Tarsus de México are presenting the Viva Mexico! session at the upcoming Latin American Conference September 18-19 in Mexico City, Mexico. I had a chance to catch up with José the other day. Interview by Stephani [...]

By | 2018-08-09T14:19:45+00:00 August 9th, 2018|All, Americas, Exhibition Industry|0 Comments
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Build it and they will come

Plans for Hitex's new Hall 4 (Hyderabad, India). One of the things I’m most looking forward to learning about at UFI’s debut Latin American event in September, is plans for major venue development in the region. It’s not because I’m a huge fan of buildings you can see from space, it’s because venue development tends to happen only after public sector buy-in – and so it follows that venue development is an indication of a government’s commitment to the virtues of a burgeoning exhibition industr [...]

By | 2018-08-03T07:32:35+00:00 August 2nd, 2018|Americas, Asia – Pacific, Exhibition Industry, UFI Updates|1 Comment
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Insights into the Brazilian Exhibition Industry

Marco Basso, President of Brazil Informa Global Exhibitions Division. Marco A. Basso, is President of Brazil, Informa Global Exhibitions Division, a company he’s been with the last 22 years. Discovered by a head hunter to begin Informa’s operations in the country, he knew nothing about the exhibition business, but had a background in congresses and seminars. Like most of us, he said, “The exhibition business is a very dynamic industry and gets into your blood pretty quickly – but you have to h [...]

By | 2018-07-26T07:48:22+00:00 July 26th, 2018|Americas, Digital Innovation, Exhibition Industry, Exhibition Marketing, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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Is the UK government putting more stock in business events as Brexit looms?

Kerrin MacPhie, VisitBritain. While the UK is home to many of the world’s leading organisers, its event business at home is largely a domestic market.  But in light of the country’s upcoming departure from the European Union, the role of exhibitions at home has become increasingly important. Take for example the Farnborough International Airshow, which runs this week – 37 weeks before the UK is scheduled to leave the European Union. “This is an incredibly exciting time for aerospace. Not only [...]

By | 2018-08-03T07:45:41+00:00 July 19th, 2018|All, Best Practices, Europe, Exhibition Industry, Exhibition Marketing, Management, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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The insights of the Latin American region exhibition industry

Ana Maria Arango, UFI Latam Regional Manager talks about the state of the exhibition industry in the Latin American region. Interview by Nick Dugdale-Moore. Ana Maria, 18 - 19 September, UFI will be organising its first LATAM Regional Conference in Mexico. Can you tell us something more about the region and the exhibition industry market share/revenue? Latin America is a very diverse continent, not only in terms of the evolution of the exhibition industry, but in the diversity of their exhibitio [...]

By | 2018-07-12T14:26:54+00:00 July 12th, 2018|All, Americas, Exhibition Industry Research, UFI News|0 Comments
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UFI serves the industry on all fronts

Corrado Peraboni, UFI President 2018. UFI has been present in Latin America for quite some time now – our first member from the region, Corferias, joined us back in 1956 and hosted the Global Congress in Bogota in 1975, and then again in 2014. We now have 42 members in the region from eight different countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador and Mexico. While this covers the mostimportant exhibition markets, there are still several countries missing, and we hope [...]

By | 2018-07-06T11:20:49+00:00 July 6th, 2018|All, Americas, Exhibition Industry, Sustainable Development, UFI News|0 Comments
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What is sustainability and why is it important?

“A business practice that is economically viable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly is usually regarded as being sustainable. Corporations that include socially responsible and environmentally sound policies as core elements in their growth strategy very often create sustainable economic values,” according to the University of North Florida Center for Sustainable Business Practices. In the business world, sustainability is viewed as a system where a business organization communic [...]

By | 2018-06-28T15:27:37+00:00 June 28th, 2018|All, Best Practices, Exhibition Industry, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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Next steps towards sustainability

Christian Druart, Secretary of the UFI Sustainable Development Committee, talks about the sustainability in the exhibition industry, presenting the UFI Forum on Sustainable Development, taking place in Orlando, (USA), from 6 to 7 August 2018.  Interview by Monika Fourneaux Ceskova  This year’s theme of the forum is “engagement, collaboration and measurement”. How would you describe these three drivers? As you know, sustainability isn’t exactly a new topic in the event industry, however, if we ar [...]

By | 2018-06-27T10:40:06+00:00 June 20th, 2018|All, Best Practices, Education, Exhibition Industry, UFI News, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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Should associations be using M&A activity to turn national into global?

John Barrett , Executive director , Worldwide Cleaning Association ISSA The practice of using acquisitions and mergers to expand an organiser’s global presence is commonplace. But how about when an association tries to increase its influence using the same approach? Historically we've only seen a few private organisers from the US make their presence felt in the international marketplace. Diversified Communications did so in Europe with its health and seafood shows, and more recently EJ Krause [...]

By | 2018-06-15T10:53:02+00:00 June 15th, 2018|All, Best Practices, Exhibition Industry, Topics, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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Three reasons why to attend a trade show or a public consumer show unrelated to your business

In a recent conversation at ECEF, a one-day US conference for Association (NGO) and for-profit US organizers, I was speaking with some colleagues about visiting exhibitions in unrelated industries for fun. They looked at me in shock. As the discussion deepened, it turns out that they attend their own trade shows or competitive expos in their same sector, but never attend consumer shows (b2c) or trade shows in other industries. Or, in a couple of instances, only attend exhibitions produced by the [...]

By | 2018-06-08T08:31:17+00:00 June 8th, 2018|All, Best Practices, Exhibition Industry, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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