As The Meetings Show opens its doors for the seventh year, the event is shaking up its education programme to deliver more than 40 hours of learning in a variety of exciting new formats. The theme of the education programme will be ‘The Planner Journey’, covering the seven key stages of event planning: Sharpening Your Event […]

The Meetings Show returns to Olympia London this week with a stronger international focus than ever before, thanks to new and expanding exhibitors from around the world.  Already established as the leading event for the UK inbound and outbound meetings and events industry, this year visitors to the show will notice a substantial increase in […]

A digital pioneer and former SAS operative have been named as the keynote speakers at The Meetings Show 2019. The show’s education programme will open with a fascinating talk from Colin Maclachlan, star of Channel Four’s reality drama ‘SAS: Who Dares Wins’ and Channel 5’s ‘Secrets of the SAS’. Colin will be using the experience he’s […]

Take The Mike are running an interactive session at The Meetings Show on Wednesday 26th June at 1.50pm-2.50pm in the Pillar Room. Delegates will have an opportunity to see staff retention challenges of the workplace. Unresolved workplace issues can affect staff retention, dramatically increasing costs for replacing your valuable employees. Take The Mike aim to prevent this. […]

London’s highest-tech mini golf venue Puttshack is the host of The Meetings Show’s Hosted Buyer Welcome Reception. Taking place on Tuesday 25 June, the event will see more than 400 event organisers come together for an exclusive evening of networking, ahead of The Meetings Show officially opening on Wednesday 26 June. Puttshack is the world’s first super tech-mini golf […]

Join us on stand J700 at 3pm this coming Wednesday, June 26th to toast a successful first day of The Meetings Show, discover Sejuiced’s new Juice Round, learn about our new Club offers, network, share best practice and swap top-tips. Taking place over a two-day period on 26th and 27th June at Olympia in London, […]

Dotdotdot on behalf of Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience will be exhibiting at The Meetings Show in Olympia. Come and discover their unique venue & experience at stand F304. PLUS, date for your diaries:  An evening with Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience & Moët et Chandon on the 26th of June!  Email Cyrina@dotdot.london or come and say hello at […]

Lime Venue Portfolio will lead on an educational session taking on the issue of food wastage in the hospitality and events industry at The Meetings Show later this month. The session will discuss the impact of #FORO – fear of running out – within the events industry and its negative impact on the planet.  The […]

Join us on stand J700 at 3pm on Wednesday, June 26th to toast a successful first day of The Meetings Show, learn about our new Club offers, network, share best practice and swap top-tips. Taking place over a two-day period on 26th and 27th June at Olympia in London, The Meetings Show brings together more […]

Drop by the PA Life stand at The Meetings Show (stand J700) to experience Sejuiced’s new Juice Round initiative and for your chance to win two free weekly deliveries to your office. If you remember the milk round, you’ll love the juice round. The Juice Round is a new service from Sejuiced delivering delicious all […]

Networking plays an important role in business, so if you’re the one responsible for organising events designed to facilitate it, how do you ensure they work well for everyone? To help you plan the perfect networking event, Alex Softley, marketing manager at The Meetings Show, shares his five top tips… If you want to make […]

Centaur Media Travel and Meetings, which owns The Meetings Show, Business Travel Show and Travel Technology Europe, is to be acquired by Northstar Travel Group. In a statement, Northstar said the deal is expected to be finalised at the end of April 2019, with the entire Centaur Travel and Meetings team expected to join Northstar. […]

The Meetings Show officially opens for registration today, and to help highlight the new branding a show preview video has been created to help potential visitors get a feel for the event. Taking place over a two-day period on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th June at Olympia London, the event brings together more than 4,500 […]

Learning about the meetings and events industry has proven to be the most important personal development focus for event planners, reports new research. According to the study that was carried out by The Meetings Show, a survey of almost 200 planners found that 18 per cent would prioritise learning about the industry. Meanwhile, the same […]

Ahead of his talk at The Meetings Show on June 28, Héctor A. Venegas’, MD of planning and consulting company Engaging Meetings Ltd, reveals why networking is such an essential skill to have and how reluctant networkers can improve What will event planners gain by attending your session at The Meetings Show? I’ll be sharing […]

The Meetings Show will be celebrating the Year of the Woman next month, with a focus on the role women play in the meetings and events industry high on the agenda of its education programme. Women in Hospitality 2020 (WiH2020) will be using The Meetings Show, which takes place on June 27th & 28th, to launch the […]

As an extension of The Meeting Show’s existing education programme, the annual event is launching a new Pre-Show Conference 2018. The programme, which will offer more than 45 hours of free education across the two-day show, will be open to buyers attending the event. The half day Pre-Show Conference will be held at the Millennium […]

Unaudited figures reveal that The Meetings Show has seen an 11% increase in unique visitors and a 2.5% increase in hosted buyers as it welcomed close to 5,000 industry professionals for three days of business, networking and education between 14 and 16 June. The 3,203 unique visitors included 845 hosted buyers from a wide range […]