Last year’s inaugural summit was staged in Malmö, but the second event will be held in a Danish seaside manor.

The latest showbiz-style Meetings & Incentive Travel Industry Awards 2019 will be staged in London on March 1.

Five trends are expected to ‘disrupt’ the business events industry over the coming five years, a study finds.

Meeting and events planners across Europe are invited to the Meet Estonia 2019 workshop and fam trip.

One of Sweden’s biggest travel agency chains has bought Akademikerresor, an agency focused on business and conference trips.

An ‘education programme’ line-up has been confirmed for the Baltic Sea Region MICE exhibition Convene 2019.

Construction of Prague’s O2 universum, which will host events and congresses, has progressed to its final stage.

The grand opening of Oodi, a new library, public space a centre for events, ties in with Finland’s Independence Day celebrations this week.

A hospitality tech event in Dubai is deploying a robot to launch proceedings, in what could be a first for the meetings industry.

Stockholm Arlanda Airport and United Spaces have unveiled a pop-up version of the flexible meeting spaces opening in 2019.

The Estonian Convention Bureau and Visit Estonia are launching a new campaign this week at IBTM.

A competition has been opened for architects to create an extension to Gothenburg’s Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre.

Convene says it is continuing to generate strong interest in the Baltic region, fuelled by a generous Hosted Buyer programme.

Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace is collaborating on five-star hotels at Bluewaters, a “revolutionary addition to Dubai’s luxury hospitality scene”.

The Swedish capital is named in the 2018 Global Destinations Index, while other markets are listed as trending for 2019.

The “great success” at the Danish-Swedish first edition will be followed up with a second event next October.

The complete modernisation of Helsinki’s biggest conference and events venue is part of a big vision for the area.

The Climatorium would “protect the asset of salt water”, host conferences and exhibitions and work with the area’s other tourist attractions.

Karen Østerbye transitions from Icelandair’s PR chief for Scandinavia to a new job at the region’s second-biggest expo venue.

Anki Sandberg of the Trollhättan Convention Bureau is excited about the future for Sweden’s network of convention bureaus.