August 5, 2020

European Cities Marketing: staying relevant by our members’ side

Digitalisation, relevance, resilience, recovery: during these unprecedented times, it is the association’s imperative to stay by its members’ side, adapting its strategy and being flexible. Since […]
July 20, 2020

This Time, Let’s Not Party Like It’s 1999

LONG THINKER PANEL David Peacock, Senior Advisor, Future Tourism Group, Simpleview Inc.   I’ve never met Elke Dens, but I wish I had. Last week she […]
July 15, 2020

Never waste a crisis: Make destination marketing meaningful

LONG THINKER PANEL By Elke Dens, Chairman of European Travel Commission Marketing Group and Marketing Director of VisitFlanders   Destination marketing has been in a deep […]
July 8, 2020

For business tourism to recover, society must recover first

LONG THINKER PANEL By Genevieve Leclerc, Co-founder and CEO of  #MEET4IMPACT   While the present sanitary crisis has indeed been a devastating tsunami for business events […]
July 7, 2020

European Cities Marketing call for an open and permanent dialogue between European institutions and local destinations

PRESS RELEASE. ECM call for an open and permanent dialogue between European institutions and local destinations. Travel & Tourism is one of the world’s largest economic […]
June 26, 2020

European Cities Marketing announces new members of Executive Committee and Board

During the virtual Ordinary & Extraordinary General Assemblies of European Cities Marketing, held on June 10, 2020, ECM members elected Board and Executive Committee representatives. As […]
June 16, 2020

The Convention Bureau of the future: Customer Centricity, Digital Innovation and Interdisciplinary Teams

LONG THINKER PANEL By Matthias Schultze, Managing Director GCB German Convention Bureau The COVID-19 pandemic brought the event industry to a virtual standstill overnight. After the […]
June 12, 2020

The Future of the Experience Economy

LONG THINKER PANEL By B. Joseph Pine II,  co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP and co-author of The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money […]
May 22, 2020

Travel influencers can play a critical role in the recovery. We just need to think differently about them

LONG THINKER PANEL By Kash Bhattacharya, Editor of the blog BudgetTraveller.org and founder of AdoptaHostel.com Starved of travel during the pandemic, we’re all consuming more travel […]