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Qatar – The New Choice for Exhibition Organisers

Ahmed AlObaidli Qatar National Tourism Council. (A contribution from UFI Diamond Sponsor: Qatar National Tourism Council) Fast-developing countries provide a plethora of opportunities for exhibition organisers. Fast-developing countries with a vision, offer a destination of choice. Our country’s vision to be a place that welcomes the world, providing seamless and curated experiences to visitors and exhibitors, has seen it top the Middle East in various rankings. Thanks to a visa policy that al [...]

By | 2019-01-28T15:31:29+00:00 January 28th, 2019|Exhibition Industry, Middle East – Africa|0 Comments
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Trade wars – What is your plan?

Trade wars are poison for our industry. I think this is a statement the majority would support. By Tesi Baur, CEO MBB-Consulting Group Exhibitions rely on free-trade, on a non-political platform for open discussion, on building relationships with customers, suppliers, partners and even competitors. The opportunity to trade without the constraints of suffocating red-tape, to conduct business in foreign regions without complex bureaucracy and to have the opportunity of forging partnerships to brea [...]

By | 2018-10-12T09:20:26+00:00 October 12th, 2018|All, Americas, Asia – Pacific, Best Practices, Europe, Exhibition Industry, Middle East – Africa, Topics, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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Stephane Garelli on the economy & the exhibition industry

Stephane Garelli, Professor at IMD, and the founder of the World Competitiveness Centre and Professor at the University of Lausanne. With a few weeks to go to UFI's Global Congress, we reached out to Stephane Garelli, who will deliver a keynote about global economic developments. He is a Professor at IMD, and the founder of the World Competitiveness Centre and Professor at the University of Lausanne. Stephane’s work focuses primarily on how countries and businesses compete in International mar [...]

By | 2018-10-01T14:03:44+00:00 October 1st, 2018|All, Americas, Asia – Pacific, Best Practices, Europe, Exhibition Industry, Middle East – Africa, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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UFI Next Generation Leadership Grantee – meet Lilian Burgardt

2018 UFI NGL Grantee - Lilian Burgardt, Head of Digital Products - Informa Brazil. Meet Lilian Burgardt, Head of Digital Products - Informa Brazil, one of the four recipients of the UFI Next Generation Leadership Grant (NGL). Lilian Burgardt, one of the four recipients of the 2018 NGL Grant, and I had a chance to catch up earlier this month. The UFI NGL Grant is awarded to future leaders of the exhibition industry for exceptional initiative in driving change and innovation within their differe [...]

By | 2018-09-13T14:06:48+00:00 September 13th, 2018|All, Americas, Asia – Pacific, Best Practices, Digital Innovation, Europe, Exhibition Industry, Exhibition Marketing, Management, Middle East – Africa, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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What should/could event engagement tech do for event organizers to survive and thrive in the digital age?

Stephan Forseilles, Head of Technology and Digital Transformation, Easyfairs. Written by Stephan Forseilles When Swapcard's Ilan Goren asked me if I'd be interested in contributing an article to their Blog on "What event engagement tech should /could do for event organizers to survive and thrive in the digital age", I jumped on the occasion. It's not everyday that you can have such a "blue sky" approach to the question. The first remark that often comes up in discussions about the future of th [...]

By | 2018-08-24T11:50:04+00:00 August 24th, 2018|Americas, Asia – Pacific, Best Practices, Digital Innovation, Europe, Exhibition Industry, Exhibition Marketing, Middle East – Africa, UFI News, UFI Updates|12 Comments
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#GED18 celebrations are just around the corner!

  Corrado Peraboni, UFI President It was wonderful to see so many of you earlier this month in Verona at our annual European Conference, especially as it took place in my home country Italy. Thank you again to my friends and colleagues at Veronafiere for hosting us so graciously, and to all our speakers for sharing your insights! During one of the breaks, I took a moment to watch the UFI team’s video showcasing some of the highlights and activities from last year’s Global Exhibition Day ( [...]

By | 2018-05-31T16:01:34+00:00 May 31st, 2018|All, Americas, Asia – Pacific, Best Practices, Europe, Exhibition Industry, Middle East – Africa, UFI News, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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What’s New in Attendee Acquisition?

I recently asked the following question on LinkedIn: Hi exhibition industry friends. Out of curiosity, what other attendee promotion/recruitment tools are you doing besides print, death by email and digital-based outreach? The reason I asked the question was two-fold: It seems many show organizers are over-dependent on emails to get the job done for recruiting quality visitors; and wanted to know what else industry colleagues are doing. A number of people answered, and there were over 1600 views [...]

By | 2018-05-25T09:29:38+00:00 May 25th, 2018|All, Americas, Asia – Pacific, Best Practices, Europe, Exhibition Industry, Exhibition Marketing, Middle East – Africa, Operations & Services, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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Showcase Africa’s culture and economic opportunity

If the 84th UFI Global Congress in Johannesburg last month made one thing clear about Africa’s appeal to global exhibition organisers, it’s that while appetites may be whetted; work needs to be done to make much of the continent accessible. According to Carol Weaving, Chairperson of Association of African Exhibition Organisers (AAXO) and MD of Reed Exhibitions Africa, delegates were clearly investigating which African countries offered stability and room to grow their shows, the venues to house [...]

By | 2017-12-12T15:35:55+00:00 December 12th, 2017|All, Exhibition Industry, Middle East – Africa, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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Raising the odds of our exhibitions’ success

With the evolution of exhibition formats, markets are expanding, shifting in such a way that our businesses are continuously presented with new revenue sources. Much of this comes from the digitisation of exhibition businesses. Exhibitions co-exist with online counterparts and therein lies a great deal of potential revenue, be it derived from the collection and exchange of data, dissemination of content or good ol' fashion sponsorship and advertising. As anyone on their way to Johannesburg this [...]

By | 2017-12-11T15:22:10+00:00 October 31st, 2017|All, Middle East – Africa, Topics, UFI Updates|0 Comments
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The IFP Group’s Joker Program

Insight by Diana Salman, HR Strategic Change Manager (IFP Group) and UFI NGL Grant recepient. In playing cards, the Joker is Wild. Being able to be anything the holder needs it to be, it makes any hand stronger. The Joker Program is UFI member IFP Group’s answer to moving their operations team seamlessly across their six offices in five countries as needed. Diana Salman, HR Strategic Change Manager for the company and 2017 #NGLGrant recipient shared how her company came up with the idea. IFP Gro [...]

By | 2017-12-08T09:40:10+00:00 October 11th, 2017|All, Education, Human Resources, Middle East – Africa|0 Comments
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