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Elevate your Return on Event through Value-Boosting Professional Development Strategies.

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He is the Author of "Confessions of a Hiring Manager,” which was the WINNER of the 2012 International Book Award for Careers, and the Gold Medal WINNER of the 2012 Global eBook Award for Employment. Top trends in meeting planning by trend expert Daniel Levine. Your browser does not support this audio element.

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2017 Association Trends that Impact Travel, Trade Shows & Hotels

SmartMeetings

For professional associations and meeting planners, membership does have its privileges. As 2017 gets underway, what are the top trends to watch out for if you’re in the meeting planning industry? For the meeting planning industry, smartphones provide an easy way to keep clients engaged and deliver content.

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Event Planning Conferences – Nuts & Bolts…

Master the Event

The moniker doesn’t matter and whether you call it event planning, conference planning, meeting planning or meeting management, the facts are the facts. Significant business decisions, undertakings and solutions will transpire during meeting and event planning conferences that occur outside of work.

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Getting Burned by Attendee Churn? What It Is and Why it Happens

Maritz Global Events

A certain percentage of your conference participants don’t return. Here’s a simple annual meeting churn formula: (Attendance at last year’s conference – Attendance at this year’s event)/Attendance at last year’s conference = Churn Rate. The 550 attendees at this year’s conference don’t specify the number of new attendees.

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LA vs. Paris: Which Olympic City Wins for Meetings?

SmartMeetings

According to the International Congress and Convention Association’s (ICCA) 2016 rankings, the number- one city for international association meetings is Paris. However, the United States took home the most gold during the last summer games, in 2012 (France was only a few spots behind, in fourth place). JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A.

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7 Tips to Stop Attendee Churn in its Tracks

Maritz Global Events

When most of us think of the competition, we only consider other conferences. Having a good grasp on this information will help you structure a more robust conference. Keep “value” at the forefront of your planning process. Regardless of their response, you owe it to your members to look at other meeting options.

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San Jose Lures Major Meetings, Events, Including Apple’s WWDC

SmartMeetings

From June 5 to 9, Apple triumphantly returned its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to San Jose, where it hosted the inaugural event in 2002. The Loop writer Jim Dalrymple speculated the decision to relocate the conference from San Francisco to San Jose could have been influenced by rising costs in San Francisco. “My