Source: CEIR
Today, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) released the 2017 CEIR Index Report. The CEIR Index analyzes the 2016 exhibition industry and provides an economic and exhibition industry outlook for the next three years. Despite a decidedly mixed performance early in the year and worldwide political turmoil in the second half, U.S. economic growth proved resilient again in 2016, with GDP rising a moderate but unimpressive 1.6 percent.

Source: TSNN
Aisles of pipe and drape; panels, roundtables, keynotes; networking mixers and the standard preshow marketing of emails, postcards and social media updates – safe to say, there is a tradeshow model. However, this model can make it hard for an attendee to differentiate one show from another.

Source: Exhibit City News
Environmental awareness is an essential part of 21st century life–including business. According to a 2013 global survey on corporate social responsibility, 94% of the 10,000+ consumers polled around the world said that they would be more likely to trust a company with social and environmental benefits, while 93% would be more loyal to that company.

Source: Trade Show Executive
A new study released today at the Exhibit Sales Roundtable in Washington, D.C. indicates that sponsorship and exhibit space sales are still growing. In fact, the 2017 Benchmarks & Trends in Exhibit and Sponsorship Sales report reveals that 65 percent of organizers reported year over year growth in exhibit space sales while 61 percent reported sponsorship sales growth over the same period.

Source: Forbes
When Mike Clum started his video-production company, Clum Creative, he was 18 and was ready to tackle the world. Six years and 15 hires later, the 24-year-old CEO has seen the best and the worst of hiring Gen z and millennial employees.

Source: Exhibitor Online
Global DMC Partners, the leading global network of Destination Management Companies (DMCs), announces their Global Standardization Program to offer meeting professionals a more effective and streamlined way to procure destination management services worldwide.

Source: MTCC
The Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Canada’s leading convention and trade show facility, has partnered with the mobile app Voyage Control to enhance the move-in experience for exhibitors, marking the first North American convention centre to offer this innovative solution.

Source: MarketWatch
Emerald Expositions Events Inc. has filed for an initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. The trade-show operator generated $323.7 million of revenue, $22.2 million of net income, $63.6 million of adjusted net income, and $89.6 million of free cash flow in 2016, making it one of the few profitable companies to have sought to go public in recent months.

Source: CEIR blog
Johnny’s smartphone alarm rang precisely at 5:30 in the morning, but today he didn’t need it. He was already sitting in the drive-thru of his favorite fast food restaurant awaiting his routine cup of coffee. It was Johnny’s first day at work as the new trade show director for an up-and-coming software company in downtown Atlanta and he was too excited to sleep.