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from Dec - 2020
Dec 2020 Vol 8 Issue 05 Voice of Asia’s Exhibition & Convention Industry
57 Award Categories
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38 Categories For Exhibition Organisers
14 Categories For Service Providers
03 Categories For Conference Organisers
02 Categories For Event Venues AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE EEA Ends 2020 On A Positive Note
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A war th m welcome to the 5 Annual edition of the Exhibition Excellence Awards 2020. I would like to welcome our esteemed jury, nominating organisations, partners, industry leaders & professionals who are attending (virtually) this iconic event from various parts of the world.
2020 shattered many dreams & indeed destroyed many aspirations. We are about to close a year, that was extremely difcult on our industry. With physical events coming to a halt, our industry suffered huge set backs. Our industry is a handshake industry and we thrive on human relationships. Furthermore, both the exhibition industry and travel & hospitality sector, work hand in hand. And so, with this pandemic, we were the hardest hit.
But it is no good brooding over our misfortune and talking about what all we have lost. We all We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Let us see what we did we gain in 2020!
Ÿ We gained experience
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Ÿ We gathered our thoughts
We united and embraced each other
We understood our human resources better and learnt to work remotely
Ÿ And most importantly, we explored the virtual and understood its dynamics better. We gured out that virtual will only complement the physical, and it will be a crucial aid to us.
I believe that while it's hard to be optimistic during difcult times, we should think of it as our only weapon & use it to ght and eventually we shall nd our way out. Let' s not just sit there waiting for the worst to happen because there ' s always one more thing that we can do.
Well friends, Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, rather only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
And nally, I remember a quote of St. Catherine, “To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
As a industry media we have put all our efforts to spread positivity and remain relevant in these hard times. We have served the industry with full conviction and we fervently believe that tough situations are to be braved with vigour and rm thfaith. We now bring to you – the 5 annual edition of the Exhibition Excellence stAwards. For the very 1 time, we are not meeting face to face and we will dearly miss raising a toast to your glory & achievements. However, all said and despite that, we will continue to recognize the excellence in our industry and honour its true champions. EEA will continue to inspire the industry.
At EEA2020, we have a supremely accomplished jury panel comprising of leading individuals both from the industry and outside it. We have also partnered with internationally renowned advisory rm – jwc GmbH to evaluate all the processes at EEA2020. The strength of EEA is reected from the fact that it is supported by The Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of MSME, The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, & National Small Industries Corporation besides leading national and international industry associations.
We had 57 nomination-based categories for Exhibition Organisers, Conference Organisers, Service Providers and Event Venues. This year, we also have 2 special felicitations under the Editor 's Choice Awards segment. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude towards our partners and sponsors who had rm faith and conviction in our vision and purpose, even in these hard times.
The Exhibition Excellence Awards are a sincere initiative for the industry and I hope that you appreciate our efforts. With this, I wish you all a happy new year with positive hopes that 2021 will be a year of revival for our industry.
Group Editor : Raghav Khosla Design : Firoz Accounts : Pappu Yadav World Map - News From The World Of Exhibitions
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Aero India 2021 on track for February 3 take - off
19th India International Mega Trade Fair kicks-off in Kolkata
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Interviews
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Global News
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Message from UFI President - Anbu Varathan
UNWTO report reveals worldwide easing of travel restrictions
Second part of UFI-Explori Global Recovery Insights 2020 report published
Messe Düsseldorf closes the Covid-19 year 2020 with a turnover of EUR 119 million
Leading photographic trade show in Cologne, photokina will be suspended until further notice
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Europe
The travel bans to France, Germany, Italy and non-European countries including Israel came as the latest figures showed the new variant of Covid-19 has led to a huge rise in cases, especially in London and south-east England. Ministers have admied that the latest lockdown measures could last for months and it has brought fresh cricism from Labour and the prime minister’s own party about how the crisis has been handled, in parcular Saturday’s “extremely egregious” u-turn on Christmas gatherings.
U.S.A
The United States marked the milestone on a day that offered a glimmer of hope: Front-line health-care workers began receiving the country’s first doses of a coronavirus vaccine. The injecon to Sandra Lindsay’s arm at Long Island Jewish Medical Center made her the first American to receive the coronavirus vaccine outside a clinical trial. The small dose of mRNA represented a giant leap in efforts to beat back the virus, a moonshot worth of hope amid a pandemic that has infected more than 16 million and killed more than 300,000 naonwide.
South Africa
The Restart Expo, which took place between Wednesday, 25 November and Thursday, 26 November at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in Nasrec, aimed to be an opportunity for the collecve industry to unite in demonstrang to the authories how exhibions and events can take place safely, with all the required COVID-19 health and safety protocols in place. "As an industry, we shouldn't be COVID-19 restricted, but rather COVID-19 managed, " says Craig Newman, group chief execuve officer of GL Events South Africa and former President of UFI, The Global Associaon of the Exhibion Industry.
Russia
Like neighboring China, which is struggling to reassure naons tesng its vaccines, Russia’s drive to convert what it calls a scienfic triumph into geopolical dividends has hit unexpected headwinds. President Vladimir Pun has pushed the inoculaon in calls with other world leaders since toung Russia’s approval of Sputnik V in August as the globe’s first Covid-19 vaccine. But many countries’ regulators have been unwilling to give Sputnik V fast-track approval - even as they welcome U.S. and European vaccines that first completed comprehensive trials.
Dubai
Dubai starts a free vaccinaon campaign from 23rd December 2020, using the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. Pfizer and BioNTech have said their vaccine is 95% effecve in prevenng the illness. The city’s media office tweeted, “Vaccinaon will use PfizerBioNTech’s vaccine and is free of charge."
China
Global trade is booming — just without the U.S. The long-awaited China-EU bilateral investment treaty (BIT), for which talks have been ongoing for seven years, will come to a conclusion by the end of the year, China's ambassador to the European Union, Zhang Ming, has said. Also, On Nov. 15, in a virtual ceremony, 15 Asia-Pacific countries signed the world’s largest freetrade pact, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The signatory states account for 30 percent of global GDP — larger than NAFTA or the European Union.
Australia
Industry longs for return of ‘touch-see-hear’ events. A survey of over 700 AV industry respondents for ISE has found that 98% are missing face-to-face events, despite the rise of digital alternaves. Some 42% missed meeng and networking with people the most, 32% missed the live experience of products and 21% missed direct exchange with suppliers and customers.
