1-2 February 2018

JNTO in collaboration with INCON, the global partnership of conferences, events and associations organized an expert industry seminar in Osaka on 1-2 February 2018. The Industry Seminar brought together leading international meeting planners with the local meetings industry and government planners to share best practice and develop skills for creating international bids.

Event documents:

• INCON/JNTO Industry Seminar Meeting Agenda (DOC, 518KB)

• INCON Introduction (PDF, 5.8MB)

Industry Seminar Presentations:

• AIM GROUP - Integrating Social Media in Destination Promotion with a focus on the Japanese SM Landscape - Giulia Sarri (PDF, 5.5MB)

• Arinex - Champions, challenges and change – the work you do before you start to bid - Roslyn McLeod (PPT, 14.9MB)

• Arinex - So what happens if you lose the bid - Roslyn McLeod (PPT, 69.4MB)

• Arinex/DEKON - ICOMOS Case study on developing the bid strategy -  Roslyn McLeod and Michael Kern (PPT, 64.7MB)

• DEKON - Difference in the management style between associations run by in-house staff and associations using core PCO / AMC - Michael Kern (PPT, 7.1MB)

• SmithBucklin - Managing natural disaster impacts on events - Carol McGury (PDF, 1.9MB)

• SmithBucklin - Tendencies and trends of North American AMC/associations regarding decision of destination - Carol McGury (PDF, 2.2MB)