Today, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the US announced that fully vaccinated people are no longer required to wear masks—outdoors or indoors. This is huge for the event industry.
Fourteen months ago, event venues all over the world went dark. This has proven to be the most damaging period for the event industry in decades. Sadly, many smaller companies did not survive the industry-wide calamity. Others scaled down to next to nothing. The longer-term impact of Covid-19 on this industry is yet to unfold completely.
Will the prospective participants at various industry events rush to attend in-person events? On the one hand, there is undoubtedly a pent-up desire to take part in events—tradeshows, sales meetings, conferences, or incentive trips. On the other hand, until herd immunity is achieved on a global scale, there will be some hesitance on the part of some—however few—to take part in any large-scale in-person events.
Virtual or at least hybrid events are likely here to stay for some time yet. In the meantime, both organizers of in-person events as well as potential attendees will still be looking to some measures that reassure them of their safety in attending an in-person event. There are already advanced health screening services emerging to meet everyone’s health and safety requirements with confidence and peace of mind. As we return to in-person gatherings, event organizers look to create, maintain, and communicate health and safety guidelines for their events. Ideally, when screening support is needed for an event—large or small—there should be a secure, cloud-based platform on which event planners can rely for testing, contact tracing, or vaccination.
Here are three pillars of a robust health and safety screening platform:
Converts guidelines and requirements into simple and enforceable policies and procedures;
Securely gathers and communicates pertinent data and policy acceptance from potential participants; and
Easily grants participants digital access.
Armed with a secure and strong health and safety screening solution, in-person events can return providing event planners with robust tools to collect data for compliance and liability purposes.
Here’s to the revival of the event industry on a better and stronger footing.
To plan your next event fully equipped with the state -of-the-art health and safety solutions, call on the professionals at Global Management Services for your peace of mind.