Legacy

The BestCities Global Forum 2025, which concluded this past weekend in Dublin stood as a testament to resilience and innovation in the global events industry.

The European Association Awards 2025 are now open.

Cycling Industries Europe's efforts to raise awareness, marked by winning this year’s European Association Award for Impact, demonstrate the power of collaboration and effective actions.

Ioannis Pallas, ESAE Managing Director, explores the intricate concept of legacy, differentiating it from immediate impact and emphasizing its lasting significance for associations.

Destination Canada recently unveiled the first results of its pioneering Legacy & Impact Study.

In July 2023, the 6th World Parkinson’s Congress took place in Barcelona, featuring the "Make the City Parkinson’s Ready" program whose impact hast just been measured.

In an interview with Boardroom, Gerda Marie Rist, the Lead of Copenhagen Legacy Lab, shares her unique journey and the innovative work being done at the Lab.

Vienna recently solidified its position as a leading destination for conferences with the successful hosting of the 2023 annual congress of the EASL.

Glasgow Convention Bureau recently revealed that the hosting of COP26 has delivered a lasting legacy for the Scottish city’s business tourism sector.

Always a frontrunner in both legacy and sustainability, Copenhagen CVB demonstrated in practice how the two, applied to conference planning, can make the desired, positive impact on the world.

As conferences are resuming in person across the globe, some destinations are looking to not only offer a warm welcome to delegates, they’re also developing long-term legacy plans that would have an impact on both the community and society as a whole. A prime example: Sarawak, the largest state in Malaysia, located on the island of Borneo.

Boardroom editor Vicky Koffa reports on BestCities Global Forum 2021, which took place last month in Madrid, helping associations integrate the notion of legacy-building into their internal strategy and modus operandi.

The concept of legacy has been on the lips of the entire meetings industry for quite a few years already. But the pandemic has amplified the necessity to use a systematic model according to which associations are given the right tools to achieve their mission. Copenhagen’s Legacy Lab has managed to cover this need.

Is your association all caught up with everything technology has to offer for your next meeting? Are you perhaps the kind of association that pays more attention in what a destination itself has to offer, even at times of the pandemic?

BestCities recently published a case study demonstrating how local hosts/associations can make international legacy even at the bidding stage and even if they don’t win the bid.

Australia’s Indigenous people have inhabited the island nation for at least 65,000 years, with some scientists believing their history goes back even further. A rich and variegated culture has developed over that time, and it’s one that ICC Sydney is keen to share with the world.