Sustainability

David Gabathuler, Senior Legal Consultant with Brussels-based Kadrant, discusses how competition law is being recalibrated to ensure that industry can receive the necessary guidance to engage in collective action, in particular to help tackle climate change.

MEET TAIWAN is ahead of the curve as the team has been giving priority to supporting national and international associations in an effort to build a more solid future and create more value for their events.

As the world marches towards a more hopeful era, the meetings industry is being reshaped and repurposed under the umbrella of global sustainability. Opportunities for change and improvement rise everywhere and innovative countries like Norway see the benefit of working hard, alongside with associations, to create a more stable and sustainable future.

Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau (TCVB) Business Events Team has released the “Sustainability Experience in Tokyo” which offers ideas to international conference organizers aiming to make their events in Tokyo more sustainable.

In this third installment of Boardroom’s ‘Building Back Better’ series, Lane Nieset continues to explore why associations may be the key to advancing the ambitious goals of a better world – especially when it comes to health for all.

Switzerland has launched a new sustainable strategy aptly named Swisstainable, which has been developed by Switzerland Tourism, the national tourism board.

With solutions and strategic thoughts on next-generation events and congresses that leaves no-one behind, the guide underlines congress city’s persistent focus on green legacy,

Associations can play a critical role in sustainable practices. And should they join forces with an alliance of convention bureaux, such as the EU CVB Network, which puts sustainability at the forefront, they will create a winning situation for all involved stakeholders.

For our Building Back Better series, Madrid Convention Bureau makes the case for impactful events that leave positive change behind.

David Gabathuler, Senior Legal Consultant with Brussels-based Kadrant, discusses the implications of the future EU Carbon Border Tax and what role associations have to play in it.

In Boardroom’s previous article of this ‘Building Back Series’, we established that associations of all sectors will offer a vital contribution to getting back what’s lost from the pandemic and turn into an improved version which will shape a brighter future. The task at hand is not an easy one. That’s where global associations of Associations, such as ESAE, ASAE, the African Society of Association Executives (AfSAE), AC Forum and the Union of International Associations (UIA), jump in and help rebuild.

In the first part of Boardroom’s ‘Building Back Better’ series, we’ll explore why associations may be the key to advancing the ambitious goals of a better world, while also making major strides in achieving goals of their own.

Five European CVBs—part of an informal alliance of convention bureaus—share their perspective on how emerging as an intellectual capital may be key to remaining relevant post-pandemic.

Busan is running a new campaign whose slogan, 'GREEN MICE GREEN BUSAN’, is in line with what the city’s economy is about.

Faced by the pandemic, the meetings industry demonstrated once more its readiness to face any challenge as destinations started taking control of the issue at hand. Belgium’s region Flanders had a big part in the solution.

Geneva has managed to stand high in everyone’s preference as a destination exactly because it can offer what our sector needs at the moment, safe personal contact.