Several industry players have released YouTube videos from their recent in-person meetings to demonstrate the cleaning, social-distancing, and other design measures needed to get live events happening again.
New research finds that meetings and exhibitions should eventually return to pre-Covid levels. But a potentially permanent reduction in other business travel could create cost and capacity issues for those flying to events.
A preview of the annual report looks at the effects of Covid on incentive travel’s ability to motivate, companies’ willingness to invest in travel rewards, and how programs will look going forward.
Infection specialists are now more concerned about airborne spread of coronavirus than surface-based spread, and advising venues to adapt their efforts accordingly.