The Hague webinar series

Outlook on the meetings industry and shared best practices during and post COVID-19 disruption.

In 2020 The Hague Convention Bureau hosted a series of webinars to address the current pressing matters that arose due to Covid-19 disruption, share best practices and provid with insights & advice. You can watch all the webinars on this page.

Changed perspective: a second view on the future

📆 24 September 2020 | 🕒 16:00 - 17:00 CET

This webinar discussion with industry leaders touched upon changing and new perspectives in the business events industry, as we revisited the last six months and looked ahead to the next and beyond:

Topics covered:

Did the development of the crisis change your perspective on matters?
What new opportunities can be incorporated in the longer term in the meetings industry?
Industry resilience and new collaborations and ways of doing sales and marketing.
Mental health. Advice from our peers in different continents dealing with the situation.

Webinar content and full recording available here

How to best leverage strategic business partnerships

📆 27 August 2020 | 🕒 16:00 - 17:00 CET

During this webinar, done in cooperation with Ottawa Tourism, we discussed the importance of strategic partnerships in business and examined successful partnerships that bring you a long way, especially in challenging times.

Forming the partnership: here we will discuss what are successful partnerships, how do you measure them, how are they formed, types of partnerships, etc.
How are the international partnerships evolving and emerging, what are the trends?
How to leverage partnerships when planning your 2021 budget?

Webinar content and full recording available here

Hybrid event | How viable are the new ways of meeting?

📆 2 July 2020 | 🕒 16:00 - 17:00 CET

The Hague Convention Bureau has hosted its first hybrid event at World Forum The Hague.

This hybrid event with international speakers from our industry has addressed the viability of the new ways of meeting.

The live-streamed webinar was combined with our traditional partner event.

Webinar content and full recording available here

How are destination marketing communications strategies evolving right now?

📆 4 June 2020 | 🕒 16:00 - 17:00 CET

In this episode of The Hague Convention Bureau’s webinar series we talked about  B2B marketing communications:
📍 Where are the marketing activities, trends and budgets shifting to?
📍 Inventive campaigns and solutions.
📍 Neuromarketing perspective.

Webinar content and full recording available here

How are sales activities in the meetings industry evolving in time where there is little demand?

📆 7 May 2020 | 🕒 16:00 - 17:00 CET

During this one hour free interactive webinar with our panelists we have continued our discussion on the outlook of the meetings industry.

This time we deepened into investigating sales activities and how covid-19 has interfered and changed our approach and communication towards our current and potential clients.

Our international panelists have shared their perspectives.

Webinar content and full recording available here

What can the global meetings industry do and expect due to Covid-19?

📆 9 April 2020 | 🕒 16:00 - 17:00 CET

Due to the required self-isolation across the globe the world has come to a standstill. The economy and the industries are being impacted hard (due to the spread of the virus). One industry in particular is the meetings and business tourism (MICE) industry. This is the first time the world is facing such drastic measures in a virus situation.

In this webinar we presented the various viewpoints from all over the world to learn what can we as a meetings industry do and expect due to Covid-19:

What would be the advice from our peers in different continents dealing with the situation?
What can we learn and adopt from them (best practices) in order to get back on our feet as soon as possible after the virus is contained?

Webinar content and full recording available here

Stay tuned about our upcoming webinars