How Event Planners Are Finally Embracing Green Practices: New Report


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Planners are taking simple steps to address sustainability at their events, with a specific focus on reducing waste. How effective they can be in transforming their events, though, is another question altogether.

As sustainability has taken on a new importance in the global meetings and events sector, planners have struggled to make the right decisions to reduce their events' impact on the environment. Evidence shows, however, that planners are beginning to make the hard choices to improve their events despite the increased costs that often come with them. A new report from event ticketing and marketing platform Eventbrite shows that planners are more concerned with sustainability than ever before. The report polled 6,843 event creators who use the Eventbrite platform worldwide, with 2,383 in Canada and the U.S., from October 3 to Nov