Event Industry Contacts

Sources of Events -- websites, calendars, etc:

BEST CALENDARS:
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www.conventionindustry.org/resources/cal.asp?showyear=2008
calendar of excellent events events, mostly AGMs for Ass'ns; from CIC who runs CMP and APEX, and are composed of 34 member orgs

http://www.mpiweb.org/cms/mpiweb/calendar/CalendarHome.aspx
interactive calendar users can upload events, searchable, by MPI

http://www.iaam.org/calendar/
Excellent events industry events calendar ...click on the year tab at top for future events, from International Association of Assembly Managers IAAM

http://www.pcma.org/Calendar.htm
industry events and pcma events calendar

http://www.iccaworld.com/evps/
listed by ICCA Intrnl Congress n Convention Ass'n, mostly ICCA Events but other good Industry Events as well

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EVENT INDUSTRY WEBSITES:
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http://www.btbtravel.com/s/Links-Associations.asp
Business to Business Travel Websites Group; nice list of Ass'n links

http://www.event-solutions.com/blackbookbrowse
searchable events planning industry contacts; from Event Solutions, they also host event entered in db (Jeff Sept 08)

http://www.exhibitcitynews.com/
Tradeshow Newspaper site; people section, classified section

http://www.wsaenet.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=6
From Washington Society of Association Executives, WSAE - Lists 136 Association Contacts ...good starting point to cold call Ass'ns to get on board with their AGMs & conferences (Jeff, Sept 2008)

www.corbinball.com/bookmarks
HUGE cache of events industry links; meeting planning resources, ass'ns, etc Including 160 meeting & travel association links; (Jeff Sept 08)

www.psmashows.org
The Professional Show Manager’s Association PSMA website; they send out industry info to their members, maybe worth contacting for promo/article; events calendar for members' events searchable by date range but weak on numbers

www.specialevents.com
Special Events Magazine's website, with lots of event tips sorted by sector; big annual event (entered in DB; Jeff Sept 08)

www.mimegasite.com
Big events industry site, with calendar but empty/error (Jeff, Sept 08)

www.tradeshowbiz.com
HUGE cache of industry assnt websites, trades shows etc

http://www.iaam.org/
International Association of Assembly Managers IAAM ; big member base, small events events calendar, Ass'n meetings listed

http://www.tsnn.com/
Trade Show Industry website with Expo tips; also thousands of events listed in searchable calendar - but no events events and must pay to register for full details

http://meetingsnet.com/
Meetings Industry Website; tips and articles on meeting planning; no events calendar (Jeff 2008)

www.expoweb.com
Online magaizine for Events Industry; Articles sorted by topic, issues, etc. No calendars found (Jeff 2008)

http://www.ifma.org/chapters_councils/council_listing.cfm
International Facility Management Association; contact details for council groups broken down by sector (ie acedemic, corporate, etc). Site also has listings for 126 ifma chapters worldwide. IFMA event entered into DB.
(Jeff 2008)

www.siso.org
Society of Independent Show Organizers SISO website...approx 2 events per year (no event info Aug 08, Jeff)

http://www.ceir.org/store_products.php?keywords=calendar+of+events&actio...
Tools for exhibition organizers but at a fee; CEIR is a non-profit organization with the mission of advancing the growth, awareness and value of exhibitions

http://mint.destinationmarketing.org/
Convention Industry Network Database. Must sign up and share info. MINT members gain access to the demographics, preferences, and histories of these meetings.

http://www.eventsindustryalliance.com/
No Events listed, but can contact Tom Treverton at tom.treverton@eventsindustryalliance.com, or call 01442 873331.

http://www.exhibitoronline.com/exhibitorshow/index.asp
event industry website, from EXHIBITOR Magazine, event: EXHIBITOR2009 entered into DB

http://directories.vnuemedia.com/btnonline/btn_results.aspx
DataBase of Convention & Visitors Bureaus (also other categories)

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SMALLER CALENDARS:
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http://www.tradeshowweek.com/toc-events/
Good events events listed, but weak on numbers/details and a bit short, from TSW Trade Show Week magazine

http://www.eventia.org.uk/
Calendar of Event Events, but short; from Eventia

http://www.eeaa.com.au/
searchable events events calender, Australia mostly; from Exhibition & Event Association of Australasia EEAA

http://www.iacvb.org/page.asp?pid=32
Small list of events, from DMAI

http://www.mic-colorado.org/calendar/calendar.html
Events Events Calendar but looks a bit smallish (Colorado only), from MIC (Meetings Industry Council) Colorado

www.site-intl.org/education/calendar
Incentive and Exec Travel Events calendar, searchable by name and date, but weak on details and light on future content (ie next year), from SITE Society of Incentive & Travel Executives

http://www.asaecenter.org/ProgramsEvents/Calendar.cfm?CalendarID=15482&C...
detailed calendar of ASAE events; big and small/training events for meeting managment; 'Centre for Association Leadership' ASAE

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FUTURE ACTIONS (only after 01/01/09)
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go through calendars for new events entered; check websites for new calendars, events, industry developments, etc.
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OLD NOTES:

Jeff, Aug/Oct 2008:
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quick google search didnt find much useful; went through all Steven's old notes which yielded a lot of industry association websites, leading into events calendars and events. Relevent websites are listed above, unless in some cases the website is tagged into the event entry (and therefore not listed here). All useful events industry event calendars I found are listed here. In cases where calendar was very short and/or only lists events for that org, large events were entered in DB and calendar is not listed here...upcoming events from these should be picked up when event entry is updated.

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Pulled over from the GEG PR Section 06.19.09:
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http://www.prlog.org/10077753-nu-su-the-ultimate-events-directory-has-gone-green.html
cool ezine story about an event site going green - also a site we might post an article to

www.bluegreenmeetings.org
Industry related site...can we get on here someplace?