Contents
Features Regulars
12 >> Convene
The Baltic Sea Region MICE show is
3 >> Editor’s letter
6 >> Global snapshot
lighting up Vilnius in February
31 >> Open for business
Australia projects its MICE
resilience, despite the firestorm
43 >> A quiet revolution
Simon George visits Prague, a city
trying to deliver on demand
45 >> Democratic hospitality
Vitali Vitaliev discovers a unique
Scottish treasure
8 >>
International news
57 >> IACC on future venues
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63 >> AIPC on the war for
talent
Big Interview
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition
Centre’s Bob O’Keefe provides insights
from a long and illustrious career
66 >> Gallery: ICCA’s Asia
Pacific Summit in
Penang
49 >> Ace of MICE
Turkey shows its hand ahead of its
upcoming annual industry event
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55 >> Dubai Association Centre
The emirate’s new association HQ is
Paris
offering a new hub vision
61 >> Venues 2.0
A major
modernisation
project and a
booster for
start-ups come
to the French
capital
Florent Jarry enters a new era for
event venues as 2020 rolls around
65 >> LA, reinvented
Tom Hall finds Los Angeles in the
process of rethinking conventions
50
COP25
39
Tel Aviv
Business and history meet in Israel’s financial
and cultural hub
William Thomson
reports from the
green zone at the
UN’s climate
change summit
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