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The latest data from Venue Directory offers an in-depth look at how the industry is evolving. Below is a comprehensive analysis of these trends, with a focus on the implications for event organisers and venues. Events were heavily restricted, and venues faced long closures, contributing to a large fall in demand.
The venue offered a distinctive backdrop, with a few authentic elements still in place, like real train cars and a repair transfer table. Attendees entered the venue through a vibrant installation featuring the event’s recognizable branding in rainbow colors. (At Sephora also prioritizes the accessibility of the host city and venue.
15Hatfields is using its insight from being the first business meetings and events venue to measure all three scopes of carbon emissions in its annual carbon footprint report to encourage and help the industry reduce its carbon footprint. Therefore, the higher number of coffees outlined, the greater the carbon emissions of the event.
So we set out to compile all the knowledge we’ve gathered so far this year to create the 2021 Event Planning Playbook and provide the answers you seek to give your traditional playbook a massive upgrade. The Playbook provides three valuable tools for venue scouting. . Selecting an event venue. 90-day global event tracker.
Now, with a year under our collective belts and restrictions poised to loosen for 2021, we’re seeing a big push toward small yet elegant combined reception-ceremonies that can accommodate anywhere between 10 to 50 guests. For $1600, you’ll book the venue for 3 hours for a set-up ceremony, photos and tear down.
Halloween 2021 may be hurtling towards us but there’s still time to throw a spooktacular shindig. People in the UK spent £474 million celebrating Halloween in 2019, making it the nation’s top profit-generating holiday after Christmas and Easter. This is welcome news.
Step 1: you’re going to want to nail down your date (as well as your wedding venue ) as soon as possible. With that in mind, here are a few dates in 2020 & 2021 you may wish to avoid. Super Bowl Sunday falls on February 2, 2020 and February 7, 2021. Additional Holidays : Chinese New Year – February 12, 2021.
The partners, products and places event marketers need to plan and produce successful events in 2021—and beyond. We created The 2021 Guide to Getting Back to Live to help you find the venues, services and expertise you need to make the rest of 2021 and 2022 one for the record books. Encore Nationwide. GES Events.
Eventbrite hosted the RECONVENE summit in May 2021, bringing together thousands of event producers. We’re sharing key takeaways from popular sessions — on topics like safely returning to in-person events, the future of virtual, and best practices for growing your audience — on our blog and our RECONVENE Recaps hub.
With gathering limits being significantly higher outdoors vs. indoors, you may be on the hunt for an outdoor wedding venue for your intimate, 2021 nuptials. But how about an outdoor venue that also boasts a stunning view to serve as your backdrop? Venue Recommended Evergreen Brick Work. Aga Khan Museum ( 0 ) EventSource.ca
Check out all of the 2021 Ex Award-winning campaigns here. In the process, Visible opened a shuttered venue—Red Rocks. The technology behind the experience included 48 4K 35000 Barco projectors and 15 cameras strategically placed to light up the venue stands and allow for high-fidelity, real-time content placement.
While many venues offer an indoor alternative as a back-up, there are plenty of venues that provide tented options as well (not to mention a healthy number of tent rental companies for those of you celebrating at a private residence). Their tented venue package starts at $7,500. So what to do? Graydon Hall Manor.
Although restrictions on gatherings will continue into 2021, that doesn’t mean love is cancelled or that love isn’t worth celebrating. I believe this concept will continue into 2021. This gorgeous tree design came together in less than two weeks, when my couple couldn’t get married at their venue any longer. .”
‘Tis the season for giving, and digital financial services brand Ally pulled out all the stops to brighten New Yorkers’ spirits by anonymously picking up their tabs at various venues around the city on Nov. Ally (@Ally) November 24, 2021. 20 to illustrate why “life is better with an ally.” pic.twitter.com/cWAFRXbD1v.
We recently convened a roundtable of senior-level conference organizers to discuss risk tolerance and the forces that are shaping their 2021/22 event strategies and decisions. Three primary risk categories are emerging as organizations weigh their options for major conferences in 2021: Mitigating financial risk.
Venues of Excellence, the leading UK consortium for conferences, training, meetings and events, have taken a strategic decision to sell the business to Mandy Jennings, Director of Paje Consultancy Ltd. The business saw a 60% financial growth over the previous 5 years surpassing projected membership figures ahead of plan.
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In this blog post, I’ll showcase the unique opportunities Stuttgart offers for your event, from hotels and venues to experiences, all with sustainability woven into the event planning process. Venues and experiences linked with world changing corporate history and the sense of pioneer spirit await delegates.
The number of couples who have had to put their wedding plans on hold throughout 2020 and 2021 is staggering. Hosted at Evergreen Brick Works , the venue was apparently working double-time utilizing both The BMO Atrium and Koerner Gardens in order to marry no less than 39 eager couples. Venue 1 Review Evergreen Brick Work.
In fact, a new events industry initiative, “ Net Zero Carbon Events ,” developed in November 2021 at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland is serving as a rallying cry for change. VENUE PERSPECTIVES. Globally, Hilton hospitality brand is helping travelers plan more sustainable trips.
Additionally, Frankfurt Airport Marriott Hotel and Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center stand out as large conference venues in Europe. Our unique selling point is hosting a large number of guests in Frankfurt under one roof, with easy access, connectivity, and a single venue for major events.’
Omni Oklahoma City Hotel opened at the beginning of 2021 with 605 rooms, a Mokara Spa, seven restaurants (including an OKC Tap House and Bob’s Steak & Chop House) and 76,000 sq. The post New Golf-Adjacent Venues Emerge appeared first on Smart Meetings. Omni Oklahoma City Hotel. Omni Boston Hotel. of meeting space on its own. “In
The following insights were derived from the Event Marketer x Mosaic EventTrack 2021 industry forecast, AnyRoad’s Experiential Trends 2021 report, Northstar Meetings Group’s May 2021 Pulse Survey and Bizzabo’s Q2 2021 Virtual Events Benchmark Report. So what can event marketers expect as the second half of 2021 unfolds?
Maybe you’ll see these programs and technologies trickle down to more venues near you. Photo credit: PepsiCo Self-Sustaining Venues When it opened in 2021 after an extensive redevelopment, Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle set the ambitious objective to be “the most progressive, responsible and sustainable arena in the world.”
Managing Director Khalaf Khalaf commented, “With social distancing in place and the capacity of Dubai venues effectively halved, the team faced various challenges. Nonetheless, we went the extra mile and found the most creative solutions.”.
Last week, on March 19, following a two-year renovation and restoration process, the venue reopened its doors as part of the Marriott Autograph Collection. Question everything. In 1931, Henry Ford launched the Dearborn Inn, one of the countrys first dedicated airport hotels, in Dearborn, MI.
Creating one of Europe’s most unique and immersive experiential event spaces, the vibrant1,004 m2 MK-7 venue – located within the Red Bull Racing Technology Campus – has been welcoming and entertaining visitors from around the world since 2018, providing a once-in-a-lifetime, F1-infused event setting for businesses and individuals.
Renovated in 2021, Cordis, Auckland is surrounded by a lively neighborhood including museums and galleries. The post Venues From National Geographic’s List of Most Breathtaking Places in the World appeared first on Smart Meetings. Attendees will get astonishing views of Auckland from the boardrooms during their visit.
In addition, the venue has secured several hundred thousand pounds of event bookings for global pharmaceutical brands due to take place in the autumn. The first event to take place at the conference, training and leisure complex was Utopia 2021, a Doctor Who annual convention organised by Fantom Events for avid fans.
We exist in an age where it is now officially a task to keep people hooked onto their devices when hosting digital events 2021. Digital events 2021 will have to learn and adapt different ways to capture the audience’s attention and have them hooked onto the event for long periods. How do you want your digital events 2021 to be?
During this webinar, Ludwig shows the many advancements meeting professionals may come into contact with in the near and distant future, such as second-floor public transport, futuristic venues and self-driving luggage. The post Best of 2021: Career Accelerator Webinars appeared first on Smart Meetings.
Last year in May, when in-person events started showing signs of life again (after being nonexistent with the pandemic), our team set out to check the pulse of our event community with a 2021 Back to In-Person Events Survey — leaving us with really helpful insights as we evaluated how event professionals were feeling about a comeback.
Venues are leading the way in getting people back together. In honor of all this, we thought it was a good time to go through our recent articles on in-person and hybrid venues and pull out a few of our favorite spots. We also did a quick lap around the internet and added a couple new venues that caught our eye.
Academic Venue Solutions (AVS), the UK’s only sales and marketing consortium exclusive to academic venues welcomes two new venues in the South West into the portfolio, bringing the total members to 43.
Our growing client portfolio includes many of the industry’s leading venues and suppliers, so Alicia’s expertise, combined with her extensive network and unique perspective as a former client, are invaluable.” New account wins during this time include Blue Strawberry, Westminster Venue Collection, Wise Productions, Iventis and StoneX Stadium.
Event technology company Cvent announced that after going public for a second time in 2021 through a special acquisition at a valuation of $5.3 Since its founding in 1999, Cvent has helped manage more than 5 million events, and lists over 302,000 hotels and venues as of Dec. The highly anticipated deal represents an $8.50
The Parkgate Hotel , located in the heart of Cardiff, has been awarded Hotel of the Year for Wales at the prestigious AA Hospitality Awards, solidifying the property’s position as a leading venue for both leisure and business travel, just three years after opening.
Choosing a hybrid event venue presents its own set of challenges. While pre-COVID considerations also play into the decision-making process, the event landscape of 2021 brings more complexity to the table. The support planners require from their venues increases tenfold in face of a hybrid future. Source: ESNS 2021.
As we head into the final days of 2023, Venues of Excellence, reflects on its most successful year ever, welcoming 12 fantastic new independent venues into the UK’s leading sales and marketing consortium. Over the past two months, the consortium has welcomed three new venues.
Here’s what I wrote about this in 2021: “Tip: If you…want to get someone like me to speak at your meeting, try including what you will offer for fee and expense reimbursement in your initial request. Initial offers of payment are so rare, your inquiry will immediately rise to the top of my pile.”
etc.venues is to open a third meetings and events venue in New York City at 810 Seventh Avenue , extending its portfolio in the city up to 30 meeting and event spaces and 100,000 square feet. etc venues has seen a consistently strong demand for space since November 2021, particularly since staff started working in offices more often.
The result could be a more diverse pool of venues to choose from at a time when meeting professionals are struggling to find open space at fully staffed hotels. According to a 2021 study by the Federal Reserve, the average Black, Hispanic and Latino households own up to 85% less net wealth than their white counterparts.
Woolwich Works – the cultural hub on the Royal Arsenal – has announced a series of changes 17 months after the venue opened to the public. The venue will host a variety of free and ticketed events in a relaxed environment that will remain open to everyone during the day and continue to offer its popular weekend brunch.
Most Q3 and Q4, 2021 conferences are reporting attendance numbers that are 40 – 60% below 2019. Work closely with your venue partners to explore options. We recently held a webinar featuring leaders from two large associations that have held face-to-face events in recent weeks. Increased and Transparent Communications. Observation.
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