May 11, 2020 | Columns, Features, International Focus
by Aloysuis Arlando At what is likely to be seen as the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, centers around the world are engaging with clients and communities in some very different ways—all of which will leave them better positioned to play their role in driving not...
Apr 27, 2020 | Columns, Features, International Focus
In Response, UFI & SISO Launch Campaign “This Show Is Open” by Cynthya Porter With the number of people infected people approaching 100,000 since the virus emerged in December, the coronavirus, now named COVID-19, is wreaking havoc on the tradeshow industry,...
Apr 6, 2020 | Columns, Features, International Focus
by Aloysius Arlando, AIPC president As most of the world seems to teeter on the edge of a growing expectation of economic downturn, if not recession, it is an interesting time to reflect on what we may have learned through the last cycle. We would certainly be coming...
Feb 3, 2020 | Columns, Features, International Focus
by Cynthya Porter With an economy that continues to blossom at a pace faster than global economists predicted, Colombia has become the new darling of sales missions from the U.S. to Latin America, with everything from pork to medical equipment rising in popularity...
Dec 11, 2019 | Columns, Features, International Focus
by Cynthya Porter; Photo courtesy of AmCham Shangha Tension and uncertainty provoked by a tariff war between the U.S. and China has kept the economy, and the tradeshow marketplace in particular, off balance for the better part of 2019, at least in the U.S. Anecdotal...
Nov 12, 2019 | Columns, Features, International Focus
by Aloysius Arlando, president of AIPC For a number of years the meetings industry—and convention centers as their most visible representatives at the destination level—have been looking for appropriate vehicles to document and illustrate the broader benefits they...
