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Skyrocketing Costs Squeeze Event Budgets

Velvet Chainsaw

According to a recent survey by The Exhibitor Advocate, exhibitors are seeing increased labor rates and material handling and shipping costs between 20-30% since 2017. exhibitors are funding these higher expenses by sending fewer staff, opting for smaller booth space and/or decreasing their sponsorship investment.

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5 Tips for Planning Fundraising Events That Exceed Expectations

Social Tables

At a granular level, their focus will be on confirming vendors (food and beverage, lighting, A/V), working closely with the venue, and creating a production schedule for the event. Sponsorship. Sponsorships. Create a sponsorship strategy. As we mentioned before, sponsorship can make or break your event.

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5 Tips for Planning Fundraising Events That Exceed Expectations

Social Tables

At a granular level, their focus will be on confirming vendors (food and beverage, lighting, A/V), working closely with the venue, and creating a production schedule for the event. Create a sponsorship strategy. As we mentioned before, sponsorship can make or break your event. Identify your opportunity.

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What Did You Do Differently Last Year?

PCMA Convene

We are moving to a larger venue for 2017. Increase in what we budget for food and beverage, and managing other costs more closely. We may shorten our 2017 meeting, have one less speaker, reduce the meal costs. • We may shorten our 2017 meeting, have one less speaker, reduce the meal costs. • Lowered meeting costs.

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Trade Show Booths: 100 Best Ideas for 2022

EventMB

A post shared by EverBlockSA (@everblocksa) on Nov 16, 2017 at 9:52pm PST. Food is a crowd pleaser, particularly for long exhibitions and trade shows. You needn’t sell cookware or food to use a booth like this. A post shared by “WOODEN STYLE” – Surabaya (@woodenstyle_interior) on Apr 29, 2017 at 7:00am PDT.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Close to one-fifth of respondents reported that one or more of their attendees faced a challenge obtaining a visa in 2017, but 82 percent — vs. 58 percent in last year’s survey — said it was more challenging to obtain visas last year than in the prior year. 2017 attendance vs. 2016 attendance — +3.6 percent in the 2016 survey.

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Olympia London celebrates long-term commitment to sustainability

Event Industry News

From being one of the first to achieve the industry ISO 2012:1 standard back in 2012, we launched our Grand Plan in 2017: our vision for continuing to improve, build on and share the inspiring work developed by our team.”. Single use plastic and food waste are two of the biggest sustainability challenges at the moment.