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...
Sep 23, 2019 | Columns, Features, International Focus
by AIPC President Aloysius Arlando Disruption is taking place in many industries. Whether it’s the consolidation and merger of hotel groups in the hospitality industry; the economic uncertainty of Brexit; the impact of the Industry 4.0 revolution in the manufacturing...
Jul 25, 2019 | Columns, Features, Guest Columnist
by Julianne Jammers, SwissTech Convention Center, Lausanne, Switzerland At the heart of the associations value proposition is networking and professional development and the benefits of these two features are the often the strength of the membership. Meetings have...
Jul 9, 2019 | Europe, International, World
Under an overall theme of “Practical Strategies to Meet Changing Expectations,” the 2019 AIPC (International Association of Convention Centres) Annual Conference in Antwerp, Belgium, delivered as promised within a format that delivered sweeping changes from previous...
May 12, 2019 | Features, International Focus
by AIPC President Aloysius Arlando Convention centers today are increasingly facing a uniquely challenging—and somewhat contradictory—set of demands. On the one hand, they are expected to deliver their products and services consistently and to generally accepted...