The spring season kicked off this week with MCE North & West Europe, so far Europe Congress’ biggest event of 2025. Over 250 MICE event professionals gathered in London for 2.5 days of productive match-made B2B meetings, sophisticated dinner evenings, and engaging city experience tours.
Following the record-breaking success of the 2025 Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event (AIME), independent post-show research and analysis projects $400 million (AUD) in business transactions between exhibitors and buyers within the next year, marking a significant 21% increase compared with AIME 2024.
With the rapid advancement of technology, particularly AI (artificial intelligence) and automation, questions about the future of jobs are becoming more prevalent. In the tourism industry, these concerns are even more pronounced as digital transformation, sustainability, and changing consumer preferences reshape the sector.
The Dead Sea Expo Dome a closed and exclusive complex for cultural events, conferences and live performances, has launched in the Dead Sea in January 2024. It will become the most significant and large cultural point that opens for the first time outside the borders of Israel's central cities.
Booking.com, one of the world’s leading digital travel platforms, and the Maldives Marketing & Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on promoting the Maldives as a premier travel destination.
Europe Congress’ third annual Events Club Associations Forum successfully concluded after three days in Riga, Latvia. The forum, attended by over 150 event planners and service providers, is a chance for association event planners to meet with suppliers across Europe and beyond to build new partnerships for large-scale MICE events.
Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC/ Visit Maldives) has launched the thrilling “Visit Maldives Hackathon” in partnership with Dhiraagu, SparkHub LLP, PSM, BCC, MOTE and NCIT aimed at both local and international participants aged 18 and above.