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Booking Meeting Venues Site Unseen

PCMA Convene

The virtual site tour for Excel London features a series of videos for different venues within the complex. But planners still face an immediate challenge: booking meeting venues while travel remains off the table for many organizations and destinations. Virtual Site Visits.

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The Road Ahead: What’s In Store for the Event Industry In 2021 & Beyond – Part Two In-Person Events

Event Leadership Institute

Mind your money with battles over escrow deposits to suppliers and more room to negotiate venue commissions. Most planners answering them have no idea, while most of the venues and other sell-side suppliers are way too optimistic, with little to base it on. In 2015 U.S. Venues will close. NOT Industry Surveys.

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7 Smart Moves at Hotel Crescent Court and More

Smart Meetings

He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. His background is in venue operations, large-scale event management, emergency response, guest services and budget management. Maytas Jiwalai Jiwalai joined ConferenceDirect as director of global accounts.

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Measuring an Event’s Carbon Footprint — It’s All in the Details

PCMA Convene

The launch of Reduce 2 — so named to reflect the 2015 Paris Agreement to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius — was also well-timed. That’s the first time we’ve done it for an actual exhibitor,” Hansen said, “not the organizer, nor the venue.” What rooms did [a particular group] use?

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Customer Feedback: Rethinking the CAB Experience

PCMA Convene

Event destinations and venues, for example, rely on customer feedback to shape their future development plans. Among those goals is to rise to the top of planners’ site-selection lists. The CAB group for the Georgia World Congress use a concept called “neuroscaping” to stay engaged. Welcome Home.

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The Political Circus Is Coming to Town(s)

PCMA Convene

From the onset of the site-selection process, collaboration among public, private, and civic organizations was the cornerstone of Cleveland’s effort to attract either of the 2016 political conventions. How did your CVB participate in site visits? Cleveland was one of those cities.

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All Politics Is Local

PCMA Convene

that February to present to the Republican National Committee’s Site Selection Committee. A month later, representatives from the selection committee visited Cleveland, and the city moved to the next round of the competition. “It And then they finally called us in February of 2015.

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