Thursday 14th October 2021

Event industry grope for a way to adapt to the With-Corona era

Event industry grope for a way to adapt to the With-Corona era

Believe it or not, 70 percent of the year 2021 has passed as of today, and it’s been a quite strange time for everyone in the world. Although the vaccination scheme has brought positive prospects for the fight against the pandemic, the idea of getting many people together in one place has become something that automatically reminds us of the word “risk”.
 
How should we get along with it? This is the question many events companies are asking themselves.
 
Tokyo Motor Show, the biggest automotive show that draws over a 1.5million participants each year, was canceled for this year taking a relatively small number of expected visitors and the risk of public health into consideration. This is for the first time in 68 years of its history. The head of the promoting instate of this event Mr. Akio Toyoda, also known as the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, has implied that they might even change the name of the event from Tokyo Motor Show to Tokyo Mobility Show as it tries to adapt to the dramatic change of the world.
 
Comic Market, the most popular event in the Anime and Comic industry in Japan, drew 750thousant people last year even amid a pandemic situation. However, it has declared the postponement of the event for this year as well given the incomparable number of infected cases for this year. The degree of uncertainty has puzzled them.
 
The more those physically held events struggle, the more demand we as an Event Platform company have got to respond to. MEETING15 takes those needs seriously and continues to develop innovative ways to integrate physical events into the virtual online world.