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2017 Association Trends that Impact Travel, Trade Shows & Hotels

SmartMeetings

According to the 2016 Center for Exhibition Industry Research Index Report, trade shows will sustain a yearly 3 percent growth for the next few years. Internet use on mobile devices went from 40 percent in 2012 to 68 percent in 2016, and is predicted to hit 75 percent in 2017, reports Zenith of the French ad agency Publicis Groupe SA.

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And Then There Were 20

PCMA Convene

Lastly, I’d like to generate more interest in association meetings management and make this industry more attractive to students, who potentially will be the future leaders of our field. It was the first full day of Convening Leaders in Vancouver in 2016, and I attended our customer event that evening. Erica Critzer. LUCCARELLI.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

We came up with a theme: Honeybees were sustainable agriculture,” she said. “It Just how competitive is it for DMOs that are bidding on meetings and conventions in 2016? “I “It was a tremendous experience and a great team effort.”. It was truly a superb experience. And we won. It was super.”. We’re really flying.”.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As The Ethics of Fams.

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The Way Forward 

PCMA Convene

Mutz agrees that sustained interactions help us to better know people. At more and more conferences, especially those produced by associations and other nonprofit organizations, community-service projects are as expected as exhibit halls and award ceremonies. They lack continuity or commitment, or shared responsibility over time.

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