Monday Insights – February 21st

This Monday’s Insights feature brings you the industry headlines you may have missed from the previous week.

Headlines

Manchester to host One Young World 2022 Summit from 5-8 September 2022. One Young World, is a global community of young leaders which has over 13,500 young ambassadors, over 2,000 of which will attend the summit, representing more than 190 countries.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak said:

“Manchester is one of the UK’s most vibrant cities, a melting pot of culture and creative thinking. So I couldn’t think of anywhere more fitting to host this year’s summit. Thousands of delegates including the most inspirational young minds will come together to strike up new connections and share the new ideas that will have a lasting positive impact for the world.”

Full details can be found at Conference News.

The mia and VisitBritain combine forces to attract meetings to the UK. A two-day event in North Wales will bring together those looking to attract business meetings and events to their destination.

Members of the Meetings Industry Association (mia), representatives from VisitBritain, and destination and event professionals from across the industry will gather in Venue Cymru in Llandudno, North Wales on 1-2 March for the Destination Summit 2022.

For more information on the event, read the full details via M&IT Magazine, here.

British Airways support the return of business travel by adding Newark-London Flight. On June 6, British Airways has announced they will launch a new daily flight between Newark Liberty International Airport and London Heathrow which shows a sign of support to the return of business travel in 2022.

Read more at Business Travel News.

Double take

EDGE Venues acquires Trinity Event Solutions.

“EDGE Venues has been through quite a journey since we officially launched the platform in 2018. Pre-pandemic, enquiries for meetings and events were at their highest, and then March 2020, as with the rest of the industry, it all disappeared. But at EDGE Venues, we were determined not to let the pandemic beat us. We took this time to evaluate our technology, make enhancements, and understand the needs of both our customers from a Trinity Event Solutions perspective, and those using EDGE.

“The answer was clear, a need for one concise message to the marketplace. With that in mind, and with the scale-up strategy of EDGE Venues, we made the business decision to merge the two companies. We are already successfully processing our Trinity clients through our EDGE’s RFP tool which has gone through significant enhancements throughout the pandemic, as we continue to make it the ‘go-to’ platform for meetings and events. The EDGE Corporate portal Metis is already giving deep insights of buying trends and activity and was invaluable for our corporate clients to manage risk mitigate costs and spend during the pandemic.” 

Jacqui Kavanagh, CEO of EDGE Venues