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The Event Management Software Stack: What You Actually Need

The Event Management Software Stack: What You Actually Need

A practical guide to building the right event management software stack for trade shows and conferences, covering registration, exhibitor management, interactive floor plans, event apps, onsite operations, and analytics.

How to Monetize Your Event Floor Plan: 6 Revenue Streams

How to Monetize Your Event Floor Plan: 6 Revenue Streams

An interactive event floor plan can do more than help attendees navigate an event. When used as part of the event’s sales and sponsorship strategy, it can also create additional revenue opportunities for organizers. The most direct way to monetize an event floor plan is to sell booth space

Trade Show Industry Statistics 2026: The Numbers Behind Exhibitions

Trade Show Industry Statistics 2026: The Numbers Behind Exhibitions

Explore the key trade show industry statistics for 2026, including market growth, exhibitor spending, attendee behavior, economic impact, and technology trends.

The 15 Largest Exhibition Venues in Europe

The 15 Largest Exhibition Venues in Europe

Discover the 15 largest exhibition venues in Europe, ranked by indoor exhibition space, and learn how venue size affects floor plans, wayfinding, and event planning.

Trade Show Kiosks & Digital Signage: Buyer’s Guide

Trade Show Kiosks & Digital Signage: Buyer’s Guide

Trade show kiosks are free-standing screens placed throughout an event venue to help attendees search for exhibitors, find booths, and navigate the show floor. Digital signage can also be used to display event information, directions, schedules, promotions, and other content across the venue. When planning kiosks and digital signage

How to Attract More Exhibitors to Your Trade Show

How to Attract More Exhibitors to Your Trade Show

If you want to know how to attract exhibitors, start by making it easy for them to understand the value of your event and book their space. A live floor plan, clear pricing, self-service booking, and an easy rebooking process can help exhibitors make decisions faster. This guide covers

QR Code Wayfinding at Events: Setup Guide + Examples

QR Code Wayfinding at Events: Setup Guide + Examples

QR code wayfinding is a navigation method where printed codes placed at fixed points around a venue open your interactive floor plan already centred on that exact location. The attendee scans, the map loads with a “you are here” marker, and they get directions from where they’re actually standing

Fire Safety and Layout Regulations for Exhibition Floor Plans (US + EU)

Fire Safety and Layout Regulations for Exhibition Floor Plans (US + EU)

Exhibition floor plan regulations help ensure that attendees can move safely through the venue and reach an exit quickly in an emergency. The main requirements usually cover aisle widths, dead-end aisles, exit signage and clear sightlines, and booth height restrictions near sprinklers or exits. In the US, exhibition floor

Event Sponsorship Packages: Ideas, Tiers and Pricing Examples

Event Sponsorship Packages: Ideas, Tiers and Pricing Examples

Event sponsorship packages combine branding, activation opportunities, and audience exposure into packages that organizers can sell alongside exhibit space. Most events offer three to five sponsorship tiers — such as Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, or Title/Presenting/Supporting — with benefits increasing at each level. These can include logo placement, speaking opportunities,

Booth Numbering Systems: How to Number a Trade Show Floor

Booth Numbering Systems: How to Number a Trade Show Floor

A booth numbering system is the method event organizers use to label exhibit spaces on a trade show floor plan, making it easy for exhibitors, attendees, and event staff to find specific booths. Common approaches include sequential numbering (100, 101, 102), grid numbering (C14), hall-and-zone numbering (Hall A-

Exhibition Floor Plan Design: 12 Best Practices That Drive Traffic

Exhibition Floor Plan Design: 12 Best Practices That Drive Traffic

Good exhibition floor plan design starts with understanding how attendees will move through the space from the moment they enter. A well-planned exhibit hall layout uses clear entrances, appropriately sized aisles, strong sightlines, and effective wayfinding to guide visitors throughout the show floor and distribute attendee traffic across exhibitor

Trade Show Planning: 18-Month Checklist and Timeline

Trade Show Planning: 18-Month Checklist and Timeline

A trade show planning checklist breaks a full event build into fixed milestones — typically starting 18 months out with venue and budget decisions, moving through exhibitor sales and marketing at the 12-to-6-month mark, and finishing with logistics, staffing and floor plan finalization in the final weeks before

The 11 Best Event Floor Plan Software Tools in 2026: Full Market Guide

The 11 Best Event Floor Plan Software Tools in 2026: Full Market Guide

Choosing event floor plan software is harder than it looks because “floor plan software” can mean very different things. Some tools are built to design floor plans and sell booth space, others are all-in-one event platforms with mapping features, some focus on banquet and seating layouts, and others