Press Releases

Oct 2, 20202 min read

Crisis Communication │ The start of our Recovery

COVID-19 is a human crisis that has meant a Business Unusual mind shift. Many businesses and organisations have faced disasters in the...

Oct 2, 20203 min read

What is in store for us on Level 1?

As we enter Alert Level 1 in South Africa, the relaxation of regulations around capacity at events has allowed for a 50% venue capacity...

Sep 22, 20202 min read

SAFETY FIRST FOR THE EVENTS INDUSTRY

As we enter Alert Level 1 in South Africa, the relaxation of regulations around capacity at events has allowed for a 50% venue capacity...

Sep 16, 20202 min read

Events sector engages with government

As the representative of the events industry sector in South Africa, the South African Events Council (SAEC) has spent months working to...

Sep 4, 20203 min read

What can I do for my Industry?

To all the fence-sitters out there The SA Events Council is an industry-wide coalition which unites 13 event-industry-related...

Sep 3, 20202 min read

Reigniting Business in the Corporate Sector

On the 1st of September, the PCO Alliance Network in partnership with Focus Rooms, The Capital Hotel Group and Cape Town International...

Aug 25, 20203 min read

Lives vs. livelihoods

The hardest choice we need to make today is choosing lives over livelihood. When we were first exposed to COVID-19 in South Africa in...

Aug 25, 20202 min read

Hybrid events are the new normal

As the impact of COVID-19 swept across the world, colleagues in the speaking and events industry suffered the same devastating...

Aug 4, 20203 min read

South African Events Industry comes together to #LightSAred

The Covid-19 pandemic has dealt the global Events Industry a crippling blow and as the South African creative industries enter the fifth...

Jul 30, 20204 min read

First to Close, Last to Reopen

As many will no doubt be aware the entire events industry of South Africa has been at a complete standstill since the ban on public...