PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

In terms of jobs, the meetings and events industry creates more direct jobs than large manufacturing sectors such as automotive, chemicals, and food. For every dollar spent on face-to-face meetings and business events in 2016, it generated an additional $1.60 In 2016, six million international attendees came to the U.S.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent compared to +4.9

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

After a year spent moving in-person events to digital platforms and monitoring the shifts in the feasibility of meeting in person, the timelines for holding safe in-person meetings in the future are slowly coming into focus. The video below is part of the Hotel Effie’s virtual tour.). Virtual Site Visits. Leslie Zeck.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Paje Consultancy Ltd are delighted to announce they have been awarded the contract to provide a full marketing, membership and enquiry service to the prestigious Westminster Venue Collection (WVC) from 1 st November 2021.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Imagine if attending a meeting in a different city, or even a different state, required nothing more than a quick afternoon trip. Though the company did not start up until 2016, it has already made significant progress. Seeing Musk’s new design in practice will tell us a lot about the future of The Boring Company’s contracts.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2020

has acquired London-based coworking and small meetings start-up, ?Bold?. Founded in 2016 by former MeetingRooms.com CEO, ?Caleb As with other Newable workplaces, Bold will be offered to hotel investors and asset owners through franchise and contract agreements. , a leading provider of branded workspace solutions, powered by?

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Corbin Ball

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Corbin's November/December 2016 TechTalk Newsletter. 18 LINKS FOR MEETINGS, BUSINESS AND FUN. 18 LINKS FOR MEETINGS, BUSINESS AND FUN. Or helpful business or meeting planning links? 6 Meeting Industry-Related Sites: ebook from Julius Solaris: The Future of Event Marketing. Volume XVIII, Issue 6. NEW ARTICLE: xx.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 24, 2018

When Marriott acquired Starwood in September 2016, it added 11 new brands—including Sheraton and Westin—that contained some of the leading hotels in the world. of meeting rooms, 86,121 sq. of meeting rooms and a 24,544-square-foot ballroom. How to Plan a Boston Meeting. The Westin Copley Place, Boston. of exhibit space.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 17, 2017

In fact, this is such a consistently recurring challenge and issue for meeting and event planners that many of us simply expect to do more with less at the onset of planning any event, and we’re almost astonished when someone says “Go for broke.” Negotiate contracts with ferocity.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Returning to F2F, do alcohol and meetings still mix? Faceplanted on the table during a global investigator meeting, causing four glass bottles to topple to the floor.”. He never made it down for the remaining two days of the meetings.”. “A It’s one of those things you never forget, even when years have passed. Yes, they did.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Smart Meetings regularly offers free webinars that cover a range of valuable topics, from contract negotiation to sourcing strategies. These are a few of our most popular webinars from 2016. Problem Contract Clauses and How to Avoid Them. Improving Contract Negotiation Skills. Meetings & Tradeshow Automation.

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Eventinterface

AUGUST 15, 2016

Mia Monroe is an award-winning certified special event, meeting and government meeting professional, speaker, author of trade articles and the conference and event manager for NASA Johnson Space Center’s Human Health and Institutional Management contract for Florida-based AllPoints, LLC.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Pamela Wike Boyd, CMP, 33, works in Silver Spring, Maryland, as senior manager of meetings and events at The Solid Waste Association of North America. I also manage the pre-show selection process, including contracting, site selection and visitation. My interest in meetings and expo grew very quickly.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2016

The 2016 Summer Olympics , which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , open on Friday. Meeting and event professionals, particularly those planning group trips abroad, can learn from these suggested measures. The post 4 Lessons Event Planners Can Take from 2016 Rio Olympics appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

Living Future 2016 , which was held at the Westin Seattle on May 11–13, brought together more than 1,000 architects, engineers, city planners, contractors, and others in the building and construction trades. Another of ILFI’s contract stipulations is that all leftover food is donated to local organizations.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 14, 2017

First a look at the numbers, taken from a decade’s worth of data gathered in Convene ‘s Meetings Market Survey: The average room pickup in 2007 was 6,009 — in 2016 it was 3,449. Meanwhile, the average number of attendees in 2007 was 4,400, while in 2016 it was 5,201. .

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 5, 2018

As it turns out, the notion of an inclusion rider — a clause that an actor can insist be inserted in his or her contract requiring that the cast and crew on a film meet a certain level of diversity — was first floated at a conference. “This is erasure, and I call this the epidemic of invisibility.”

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Event Industry News

JUNE 17, 2019

GL events has raised its target for annual growth following the announcement of five new contracts in Europe, South America and Asia, representing a total value of €70 million in sales. Two further contract wins will see the group provide large-scale audience seating grandstands.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Grimes of Grimes Law Offices, LLC in Philadelphia, spoke at MPI’s WEC 2016 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, about planning international events. Learn as much as you can about the culture of the country where you are planning your meeting in order to understand how they prefer to do business. Below they share some insights: In Advance.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 20, 2020

For meeting organizers facing decisions about canceling meetings this year, one of the most painful aspects is the prospect of watching months of work go to waste. Canceling would not only have meant pulling the plug on TAGC, but on multiple GSA annual conferences, said Suzy Brown, CMP, GSA’s senior director of meetings.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

What could in-person meetings during the time of COVID-19 — meaning there is no vaccine or effective treatment yet available — look like? He’s been speaking with four potential sites about hosting the two-day event, including the Dana Farber Center, another health-care facility, a hospital, and a small meeting venue.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

In addition to data about quantifiable things like the size, frequency, costs, and types of meetings, our Annual Meetings Market Survey also captures a wealth of data in the form of comments in response to a series of open-ended questions. Last week we published comments about the meeting industry’s biggest challenges.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

November 11, 2016 – Smart Meetings, the leading media company and most trusted resource for meeting professionals, was awarded two Eddie Awards and two Ozzie Awards at the 2016 Eddie & Ozzie Awards by Folio in New York City. 1 resource for meeting planners,” says Marin Bright, CEO and founder of Smart Meetings.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Meeting Planning Madness Podcast. Meetings Podcast. Eventful: Th e Podcast for Meeting Professionals. Meeting Minds with Charles Eide. The Meeting Planning Madness Podcast. Meetings Podcast. Eventful: The Podcast for Meeting Professionals. Meeting Minds with Charles Eide. IN-PERSON Podcast.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

A leading supply chain partner to the world’s leading contract manufacturers and OEMs, the key elements of Velocity Electronics’ stand were a welcoming meeting and hospitality space complemented by a fresh, open design. We wanted to make a statement and we were able to do just that!”.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Out and about in Dublin at LavaCon 2016. So Molisani organized LavaCon in Dublin in 2016. He moved the event from its 2016 location at Trinity College to Croke Park. Croke Park has a 200-person minimum, but that didn’t worry Molisani, who was confident he could meet that number. “So It was a flop.

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Banking 2016 Contracts Speakers 56

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But neither brother showed any early promise as a high achiever, they told the audience at the opening keynote at ASAE’s 2016 Annual Meeting & Exposition , held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Aug. Participants created their own sessions using Open Space techniques. Zero Tolerance’.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It’s no secret that there are examples where the agency which has submitted the most “competitive” bid has had to walk away from the contract in less than a year, as they have been unable to deliver on the work. This practice is quite literally a race to the bottom. Would charging for the pitch make a difference?

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Eventmobi

JULY 3, 2019

Meeting and event planners manage significant amounts of data, from vendor and supplier information and budgets to registrant details and post-event surveys. Data is any information you collect from the members of your meeting or event ecosystem. by budget, contracts, attendee lists, and other key functional areas).

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 8, 2017

Already, the 2016-2017 flu season has seen flu hospitalization, pneumonia and mortality rates in the United States outpace last winter’s numbers. The current flu season hit its peak in the early days of March, meaning that while the worst of winter may have passed, the danger of contracting the flu is still very present.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It has topped of the list of challenges identified by planners in Convene ’s Annual Meetings Market Survey for years, including in the 2017 and 2020 surveys, conducted in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and in our most recent survey (to be published in a special Convene November Forecast issue).

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

Tell that to meeting professionals, however, and they might grumble. Every few years the question comes up as to whether or not [procurement] should be handling our contracts,” she said. “We Kelley Butler, McDonald’s director of meetings and events, said her department now works with procurement more closely than ever.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 13, 2016

APEX may also be a good reference point when it comes to contracts, however, the quality and availability of equivalent resources for other regions is inconsistent. Meet Face to Face. A simple search for DMCs in the exhibitor listing of the recent IMEX America 2016 returns 732 results from all over the world. Click To Tweet.

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Event Planning Negotiating Social Media Trade Shows 60

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Cities that devote funds and square footage to building, maintaining and expanding state-of-the-art meeting facilities reap rewards in the form of increased meetings and conventions bookings, room night sales and visitor spending. In addition to meeting space, accessible hotel room rates figure to play a significant role in the talks.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

.” Both Owen and Gary Rorman, creative director of PSAV Creative Services — also in the video — have spent decades honing how to choose and negotiate with musicians for meetings and events. ” Rorman and Owen both urge planners to pay close attention to contracts. ” What is important to look for in a contract? .”

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Visit Anaheim is strengthening its status as one of the top meeting destinations in the United States with a new partnership with three prominent sports organizations. USA Volleyball extended its contract with the City of Anaheim through 2020; Sports Anaheim has taken over the contract.

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Nuila Events LLC

MARCH 31, 2017

Well, they completed and approved a 13-billion-dollar acquisition of Starwood Resort and Hotels back in September 2016, but the full effect of the purchase is starting to be felt by loyal guests of both companies. Although this is a major win for Marriott International, the meeting and event planning industry may think otherwise.

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