Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hotel group room nights index rose to 106, showing a return to 2019 levels. The RFP activity index, which measures the number of proposals sent by event planners during the quarter, increased to just shy of 2019 levels as well. Small event RFPs increased to 97% of 2019 levels.

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Event Marketer

JULY 5, 2022

As Keyana Kashfi, Spotify’s global experiential content & production lead, put it, “2019 was very focused on sales meetings. From the Cannes Archives: Interactive Feature: Our Full Report on Brand Experiences at Cannes Lions 2019. The biggest structures you saw here [in our footprint] were three closed-door meeting rooms.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 15, 2023

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. That net income is often what funds an association’s year-round member programs and services.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bonnaroo 2019: Five Brand Experiences That Caught Our Eye at The Farm. Take a photo tour of what’s new and different this year at New York’s homegrown festival. More Music Festival Strategies: Lollapalooza 2021: Good Vibes and Music Lovers Kick Off an In-person Festival Season. Featured photo credit: Bacardi.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Attendease has won Best Event Website/ Mobile Site in 2016 and Best Attendee Management Technology in 2019. This is the 8th edition of the Awards and it's the most important recognition awards in the event industry. The event Tech Awards Ceremony is part of the Event Tech Live - the world's leading event tech expo.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 27, 2020

The pricing and margins that facilities and suppliers enjoyed in 2019 will not fly in a world where conference organizers are only realizing 70% of their revenue goals. It’s unclear whether or not these occupancy and ADR recovery predictions include declines in group guestroom demand due to: reduced attendance (especially globally).

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In the February 2019 issue of Convene, I wrote about Why the Sustainability of the Trade-Show Business Model is in Question. While virtual platform solution providers tout improved behavioral data on attendees, booth visits and downloads, the quality of those interactions is not ringing the bell like the face-to-face experience.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Emile holds a CEM from the International Association of Exhibitions & Events (IAEE), seats on the IAEE Advisory Committee, was the 2019 Trade Show Manager of the Year (SMOTY) Award and was recognized in 2016 in the 40 Under 40 Next List by Connect. The post [WEBINAR]: Should You Move Ahead with Fall In-person Events?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

International travel grew gradually in 2021 after the quarantine of 2019, yet 2022 has seen a huge spike. With more countries opening their borders and lifting Covid restrictions, 2022 international travel has increased exponentially since 2019 and progressing towards pre-pandemic numbers. Why the Rapid Growth in International Travel?

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2022

Seth Andrew stealing funds in November 2019 (photo obtained from bank surveillance footage by Melody Shen, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two-thirds of meeting professionals have reported the recovery of the hospitality industry to more than half of 2019 levels and one-third reported having reached beyond recovery to 80% of 2019 levels, according to new research by IACC’s new report, Meeting Room of the Future Barometer Late—November 2022.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 2, 2021

For some, it’s a return to business as usual, with the events looking and feeling as they did in fall 2019. 7 with a reduced field of 33,000 runners (some 53,000 runners finished in 2019) and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test is required. Salesforce will present a very different Dreamforce this year.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 5, 2022

Attendees will not be motivated to save $100 for registering early when you have the same cancellation policy as 2019. You will receive more registrants in the last four weeks than ever before. Remove risk for early commitment. Consider changing your policy just for those who register before the early-bird deadline.

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Bravo increased attendance from 10,000 attendees in 2019 to 30,000 this year. Indeed, this year’s iteration of BravoCon was transformed from a 10,000-person festival when the event launched in 2019 into a full-fledged fan con that drew 30,000 “Bravoholics” to the Javits Center to mingle with more than 100 cast members.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2022

We’ve known since mid-2019 that COVID-19 spreads by airborne aerosol transmission. Event professionals: it’s time to talk about COVID, duty of care, and the meeting industry. Actually, we should all have been talking about this for the last couple of years, but better late than never.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2022

30—up 13% from 2019, despite a cut in frequency by 10%. Isom stated that American will work to getting back to 95 to 100% of 2019 capacity next year. The airlines revenue rose to a record $13.46 billion in the three-month quarter ending Sept. Delta and United also reported similar gains.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. 6 in 2019 Similarly, San Diego was able to move to the No. 7 in the 2019 listing Interestingly, Las Vegas slid to No. While Orlando, Florida retained the number one spot in North America from 2019, both Nashville, Tennessee (No. 7) in 2019, respectively.

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EventMB

JUNE 21, 2023

Rising crime, homelessness, and high prices mean events are far from returning to 2019 levels. Skift Take: As travel returns to almost all major U.S. cities, San Francisco is a notable exception. Miguel Neves and Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

Hoppers busiest airport data Travel agency Hopper ’s Memorial Day and Summer Travel research posts say that domestic airfare dropped 26% or $100 per ticket from 2022 and are a further 6% below 2019 levels. Hotel prices in the United States have dropped from 2022 down to $208 per night over Memorial Day Weekend, -6% from this time last year.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Despite the challenges faced by the industry, it is now sitting at levels similar to 2019, which is a drop from the unsustainable spike seen in 2022, itself attributed to pent-up demand in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. in Q1 of 2023, marginally exceeding inflation, according to the Event Economy Tracker by The Business of Events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The UK Conference and Meeting Survey 2023 highlighted that while the industry is on the road to recovery, overall expenditure levels remain below 2019 figures. The campaign provided a significant boost to the post-pandemic recovery of the event sector.

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EventMB

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Skift Take: According to Convene, spending on meetings and events has increased by 35%, while Knowland reports group revenue is at 103% of 2019 levels. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The third quarter during the summer months proved especially profitable with revenue generated per available room up by nearly $15 as compared to 2019. And music to the ears of meeting spaces and event venues is that event parking revenue is up 25% from 2019, which equals to all of 2019’s revenue in just the first three quarters.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most Q3 and Q4, 2021 conferences are reporting attendance numbers that are 40 – 60% below 2019. Here are five of the top take-aways that can help other associations navigate their new journey. Increased and Transparent Communications. Events with greater international participation are seeing the steepest declines.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 15, 2022

In my experience, most large conferences this year are realizing about 80 percent of their 2019 revenue performance. For some of the major annual meetings we’re tracking, sponsorship revenue has been a bright spot when compared to exhibit revenue performance.

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EventMB

AUGUST 7, 2024

Skift Take: In the first half of 2024, 21 of the top 25 hotel markets saw increased group demand, though overall levels remain below 2019 when adjusted for inflation. Conferences and trade shows are key drivers of this growth, with significant recovery in regions like Asia Pacific and North America.

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The experience was inspired by a 2019 Gallup poll that found more than 75 percent of Americans believe immigration is a good thing. “We have these great stories about real people to do that.”. Behind each door of the installation, attendees find interactive videos about the immigration concepts Americans agree on.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2023

fewer flights than in 2019 and 0.9% “Our industry has been changed profoundly by the pandemic, and you can’t run the airline like it is 2019 or it will fail,” Kirby concluded. “We believe that the industry’s capacity aspirations for 2023 and beyond are simply unachievable. United is downscaling to 16.7% fewer seats.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Hotels are charging more, but profitability is the same as in 2019,” Dominguez said. Dominguez encouraged meeting professionals to explain to their stakeholders that when they see inflation decreasing, that doesn’t mean prices are going back to 2019 levels. We’re paying for more labor. F&B Prices Are Impacted by War in Ukraine. “I

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Having written about the intersection of power and status at meetings , I appreciate what professor of African American studies at Princeton University Ruha Benjamin shares in this 2019 video: “ The New Jim Code?

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EventMB

OCTOBER 25, 2023

markets for hotel group business compared to 2019. Skift Take: A new report points to the recovery of 13 of the top 25 U.S. Miguel Neves and Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

15Hatfields has had huge success and in 2019 through its ‘Make Plastic History’ campaign it furthered its commitment completely eradicating it – saving tens of thousands of items being thrown away every year.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In the business events space, there was a realization of the need for being together and we are all determined to build back stronger than 2019,” he said. The city was named one of the 32 Places to Go and Eat in 2019 by Food & Wine magazine. Read More : Ramsay’s Kitchen Opens at Harrah’s Las Vegas. Yes, the 1.8-million-square-foot

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The judges are: Paul Harvey, editor M&IT Leigh Cowlishaw, managing partner Black Box Partnerships Patrick Delaney, managing partner, Soolnua Priya Narain, co-founder, Event First Steps Gabby Austen-Browne, founder, Diversity Alliance Gracia Kabongo, Senior Associate, Stakeholder Engagement and Events Lead, Ofwat, and Tomorrows Talent winner (..)

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EventSource

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Each couple was photographed by Rachel Hunt Photography who has photographed multiple Chapels since 2019. The sweets table was inspired by a still life oil painting, where the insanely talented team at Olivia Yang Cake used a palette knife to literally create an edible masterpiece.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2021

Biometrics company Zenus is one of the players in the space and helped streamline the registration process at an event in 2019 in 2019 for the more than 18,000 attendees with facial recognition-enabled check-in processes. Facial recognition technology, widely used in airports, is expected to support touchless events.

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EventSource

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Kazu finally popped the question in our home in June 2019 over a bag of Tostitos® and salsa. They grew up with each other’s best friends but didn’t meet until grade 11 at a party where they exchanged no more than three words to each other that night. However, they quickly became best friends and became a couple in 2011.

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