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Smart Travel: Saudi Arabia MICE Industry Booms, American Airlines Shuts Down Group-Jumpers, $65 Billion Needed to Address Coastal and Marine Tourism Climate Issues

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Looking for a showstopping dining experience to feature at your next meeting? You’re not alone—a major conference is being held to address the G20’s fastest-growing MICE market. of leisure and meeting spaces. Regis Hotels & Resorts has teamed up with Ginori 1735 to offer your attendees a meal for the ages.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

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Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Heike Mahmoud, CMP

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Heike Mahmoud , CMP, was one of the first European meeting professionals to earn the Certified Meting Professional (CMP) designation through the Events Industry Council (EIC) in 2006. It is a seal of quality that is immediately understood and is one of the foundations for success in the international meetings industry,” she says.

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How an Event in Boston Is Making an Impactful Return

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The battle between in-person meetings and the now-waning Covid pandemic is the source of many comeback stories around the globe. 16-18 to have its first in-person event since 2020, the annual Academic Event Professionals (AEP) conference, to be held at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. TSEC is coming back Oct.

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Smart Moves in Lake Tahoe, Laguna Beach and More

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In 2006, he founded CR Sales Solutions and was the company’s president for over six years. Before his present positions, Croke held the role of vice president of sales and marketing at The National Conference Center in Washington, D.C. The post Smart Moves in Lake Tahoe, Laguna Beach and More appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings

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Meetings of every kind offer these opportunities. Personal meetings like these, whether brief or extended, between good friends or strangers, are fundamental. Someone to tell it to at conferences. Conferences, whether in-person or online, are also potential arenas for conversations. No conversations occur during lectures.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

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Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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