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 […]
August 4, 2020

“Long Thinker Catalogue”: thinking ahead to A New Tomorrow

Find out the ECM Long Thinker Catalogue! As part of the initiative #aNewTomorrow, we invited 10 Long Thinkers – experts in their fields, industry influencers and purposeful changemakers […]
July 22, 2020

ECM launched first edition of ECM Summer School 2.0 for advanced professionals in the Meetings Industry

ECM launched this month the first edition of the ECM Summer School 2.0, which will take place online on August 24-26, 2020. Attendees will take a […]
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 […]
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 23, 2020

Global Destination Sustainability Index: 2020 Benchmark Goes Live

GDS-Index 2020 Benchmark Goes Live. June 18th 2020. The Global Destination Sustainability Index (GDS-Index), launches the 2020 criteria and opens the benchmarking period for business tourism […]
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 […]