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Agriculture and Agritourism in Virginia Beach

Smart Meetings

Virginia Beach’s agricultural industry tells a story beyond economics Every morning David Trimmer wakes up thinking about the viability, sustainability and growth of the agricultural industry in Virginia Beach. Williamson and her team work directly with the convention center’s sustainability coordinator, Kimberlee Dobbins.

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

Many have striven for massive follower counts and social media “influence” Others, like myself, have enjoyed the platform’s often-strained ability to discover and sustain communities of interest on a myriad of topics. From my viewpoint, the platform’s popularity and usefulness reached a peak between 2014 – 2017.

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Blackpool Conference & Exhibition Centre Celebrates 12 Month Milestone

Prestige Events Magazine

The Blackpool Conference and Exhibition Centre has announced today that in its first 12 months of operating, it welcomed 55,000 delegates through its doors and generated, alongside Winter Gardens Blackpool, in excess of £70m in economic benefit, contributing to Blackpool’s overall visitor economy which is valued at more than £1.58bn.

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OVO HYDRO IS THE FIRST ARENA IN THE WORLD TO ACHIEVE ‘A GREENER ARENA CERTIFICATION’??? 

Prestige Events Magazine

The award solidifies Glasgow’s commitment to sustainability following the city hosting COP26 last year. The OVO Hydro, a Scottish Event Campus (SEC) venue , has been announced as the first arena in the world to achieve A Greener Arena (AGA) certification for its commitment to sustainability.

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A Greener Festival reveal the festivals and events reducing their environmental impact

Event Industry News

Launched in 2007, the AGF Awards is a pioneering certification setting the standard for sustainable events. The standards have been developed over 15 years in consultation with 1000s of events, event services, suppliers and sustainability experts across key areas assessed.

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28th Annual Meetings Market Survey: Slower Growth Ahead

PCMA Convene

Sacks emphasized that the report did not make a direct correlation between the decline in international tourists and international conference attendees traveling to the U.S., million, is closer to the 2007 budget figure of $5.4 million, is closer to the 2007 budget figure of $5.4 as a destination overall.

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Meet What is Possible in California

Smart Meetings

Marketing conferences is more complicated now than it was two years ago. Northern California’s Silicon Valley has incubated three generations of technology advances from to the first Intel microprocessor in 1971 and Atari computer game that same year to the first iPhone demonstrated by then-CEO Steve Jobs in 2007. Green Meetings.

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