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Nearly 90 convention centre and exhibition centre managers were surveyed in France last September by Coach Omnium, a consultancy specialising in MICE and business tourism. Unsurprisingly, the "Survey on the impact of COVID-19 on French convention centres and exhibition centres"...

What is your reaction to the ban on trade fairs in Paris? Pierre-Louis Roucaries - I have to say that we don't understand it. With all the work that the industry, Unimev and its colleagues, have been doing for months with government departments to ensure the most stringent health protection possible in exhibition centres and trade fair halls, it is impossible to understand why...

On 30 September, business travel professionals were invited to attend the 29th EVP in digital format. Although they were unable to reveal the data from the traditional EVP barometer - an exercise made virtually impossible by the health and economic context - the American Express GBT managers did release a few figures. These are...

What is the current state of the events sector? Nick Dugdale-Moore - It varies a lot around the world. Our sector was one of the first to be affected: from March onwards, more or less all commercial events were suspended around the world, because all the attention was focused on the fight...

It was one of the sectors most rapidly paralysed by the health crisis, and it will be one of the very last to be able to resume its activity: the events industry will finally be back in action on 1 September, as the National Defence and Security Council recently made official. Viparis is Europe's leading conference and trade show host...

When will the capital be holding another trade fair? This is the big question that prompted the managers of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau (OTCP) to carry out a survey. Its first Barometer on the outlook for business tourism in Paris targeted seven priority markets, namely the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Italy and the United States.

Congresses cancelled, trade fairs postponed, corporate conventions and other corporate events postponed indefinitely... All of this put together, over the period from March to August 2020, the events industry estimates the cost of the current health crisis at nearly 15 billion euros in economic spin-offs. The ban on events followed by containment measures...

Like other tourism sectors, including the airline and hotel industries, the events industry is preparing for the upturn by taking into account health and safety issues, which are a priority for employees, event organisers, exhibitors, service providers and visitors alike. With this in mind, Viparis has joined forces with Bureau Veritas to define a set of standards aimed at...

On February 19, a press release from UFI, the Union of International Fairs, indicated that, according to the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the national authorities, the cancellation of major trade fairs and events in Europe, America, the Middle East and large parts of Asia was premature. Clear instructions had to be given...

Not surprisingly, the international spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus is prompting companies to take drastic precautions. This was recently demonstrated by the trade fair sector, where major events such as the Geneva Motor Show and the ITB Berlin Tourism Fair were cancelled. This principle of...

In your hand, when folded, it feels like you're holding a book: the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold is clearly a laptop unlike any other. Its leather 'skin' on the outside and its size (folded: 158 x 236 x 28 mm) make it a far cry from a conventional notebook, apart from the weight, which is...

According to the latest Business Travel Show survey, climate change is the biggest challenge facing the tourism industry in 2020, while individual buyers are more concerned about cutting costs, which will once again be their biggest issue next year. The Business Travel Show survey, conducted...

Every year, the Business Travel Show surveys thousands of travellers and travel managers across Europe to identify the issues facing them, their companies and the business travel sector in general. This year, for the first time, sustainable development features in the top 10...

Last year you inaugurated Hall 7 at Eurexpo Lyon. What are the advantages of this new venue? Anne-Marie Baezner - Designed by AIA Architectures, Hall 7 is linked to Hall 6 by two footbridges. This means that the two halls can be linked up to make it easier for visitors to get around the large exhibition areas...

Constantly growing and estimated to be worth almost €30 billion in France in 2019, the business travel sector meets every year at IFTM TOP RESA, which has become a key market place for bringing together its players and working on its major challenges. To keep pace with this growth, IFTM TOP RESA is launching a...

Europe's biggest event for new electronics, the IFA 2019 ("Internationale Funk Ausstellung") in Berlin brings together all kinds of products, many of them aimed at business travellers: laptops, secure data storage, headphones, smartphones, external batteries... everything that can make life easier for mobile professionals, in short. Several ranges...

The 40th anniversary celebrations are already a long way off for the organisers of IFTM Top Resa, who are now fine-tuning an ambitious 2019 edition. They plan to welcome no fewer than 35,000 visitors - compared with 34,000 at the previous event - to Hall 1 at Porte de Versailles, and to maintain the event's international momentum,...

At IFTM 2019, visitors are invited to discover the entire myCWT ecosystem, the B2B4E (short for "business to business for employees") platform. The business travel agency's top priority is to help visitors support and mobilise their employees during their business trips to ensure the company's success. Technology and innovation are at the heart...

Having celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, IFTM Top Resa 2019 is now approaching, and we already know that it will be putting business travel centre stage. This year's travel event, to be held at Porte de Versailles in early October, will include a number of events dedicated to business travel....

The VivaTech 2019 event, which opened in Paris on Thursday, once again put the spotlight on innovation in the broadest sense, with no fewer than 2,000 start-ups gathered in the 56,000 m² of exhibition space at Porte de Versailles. While the cameras were often focused on the VIP events organised at the Dôme de Paris (Emmanuel...