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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022

Smart Meetings

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), a celebration of everything wonderful about the meetings industry, is kicking off its seventh year with the theme “Meet Safe,” a redux of GMID 2021’s theme. While most events across the globe took place virtually last year, more events are now meeting in person.

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CalSAE Seasonal Spectacular Brought the Festive

Smart Meetings

The holiday spirit took over Sacramento’s renovated SAFE Credit Union Convention Center last week as 400 association meeting professionals came together during the return of CalSAE ’s Seasonal Spectacular event Dec. Associations pivoted faster than they ever have before,” said Jim Anderson, CalSAE president and CEO.

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New Event Support Trade Association launched 1st July 2021

Event Industry News

The Meetings and Events Support Association (MESA) has been launched to embrace and support innovation in the meetings and event industry. MESA ran its first founder roundtable online event In May 2021 to include members of the Steering Committee and involving other founders from leading event backgrounds.

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Union of International Associations releases 63rd International Meetings Statistics Report

Event Industry News

The Report provides two views of a sector continuing to face multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2021. Number of international association meetings.

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CHS Group Launches CHS Meetings & Events Industry Week

Event Industry News

The CHS Group, in partnership with the wider West Midland meetings and events industry, has launched a celebratory week for event professionals. The week begins 25 October 2021 and coincides with the industry’s return to full capacity.

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IHG Is the Latest Hotel Company to Aid On-Site Covid Testing

MeetingsNet

With in-person events on the horizon, IHG joins Accor, Hilton, and Marriott in facilitating testing set-ups for when attendees arrive each day. Earlier in March, Accor Hotels rolled out an on-site testing program for business events, while Hilton and Marriott did so at the beginning of 2021.

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Planners Get Straight Talk from Hotel Owners

MeetingsNet

At a recent meetings-industry conference, hotel executives explained how their properties struggle to balance rising operational costs with competitive rates for meeting groups. That’s because all the fixed costs of maintaining a property still had to be paid” during a time when in-person events were halted or limited.

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