Industry Research

ICCA’s extraordinary archive of industry (and social) change. This is where you can scroll through and find out what key figures have contributed across the years. Other features include interviews, profiles, insight, articles, reports, stats, best practice, and more. We’ll be curating the Resources library in due course but for now, enjoy ICCA in all that we have gathered.

Posts From: October 2018

Report finds knowledge transfer worth more than economic impact at 2018 European Congress of Radiology

Oct. 30, 2018

The monetary value of information presented at this year’s European Congress of Radiology, in Vienna, amounted to €813m, according to a groundbreaking new report. Calculated by adding up the…

Case studies: How can destinations implement innovative sustainability initiatives?

Oct. 24, 2018

Sustainability takes on many forms, and not all are environmental! The Global Destination Sustainability Index, an initiative supported by major meetings industry organisations such as ICCA, IMEX…

Back to the Basics of Legacy

By Rémi Dévé on Oct. 19, 2018

Legacy has been the talk of the industry for some time now. Some will think it has everything to do with the efforts some people make to justify what they do, others will point out it is the industry…

Association meetings: ignore the doom-mongers

By James Lancaster, Editor at AMI Magazine on Oct. 19, 2018

Sometimes the best theories are just that: theories. No matter how much you pummel and shape them, they refuse to comply with reality. Sometimes this creates a kind of cognitive dissonance in those…

As Technology Changes Association Events and Exhibitions, These Five Elements Will Likely Stay the Same

By Corbin Ball on Oct. 19, 2018

We are living in a time of unprecedented technology change. How will these changes affect association meetings and tradeshows? Will they remain a central form of education, networking and marketing…