In-person, online, hybrid: How will Islamic economy lifestyle events be held this year?
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to restrict full-scale events, the online sector continues to thrive and one year on, some organisers are asking if big in-person affairs are at all necessary.
The world’s exhibition and trade show industry contracted by 68% last year, affecting 2.4 million jobs. In the Middle East, revenues were only 24% of 2019’s, in the Asia Pacific region 32%, according to the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry.
Where it was possible, Islamic economy events went online completely, or took the hybrid route. Among the bigger industry events last year, Dubai’s Global Islamic Economy Summit held a series of online panel sessions and webinars, and Turkey’s World Halal Summit went hybrid.
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