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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

The New Year is upon us and as we look at 2022 for our meetings and group gatherings, we gaze into the future with bright eyes and positive grins and think, what the heck is going on? As a matter of fact, I have been advising my groups planning meetings for 2022 not to be complacent. A potential new tool (and weapon): drones.

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Smart Moves in Mexico, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

Englander takes on the role of account manager as well, and will assist with all aspects of site selection and contract negotiation processes. Allison Aguilar Bultman Allison Aguilar Bultman, Destination Madison Destination Madison promotes Aguilar Bultman to a brand new sales position: convention sales manager, multicultural markets.

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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Who’s Booking : Hyatt is seeing a huge increase in leads from third-party RFP platforms like Cvent, and site selection companies like HelmsBriscoe. People are “cautiously optimistic” about the small meetings market for Q4 of this year. When They’re Taking Place: By all accounts 2022 is shaping up to be a very robust year.

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New Contract Essentials in an Ever-Changing Environment

SmartMeetings

2022 contracting will require going back to basics. Do you start earlier than usual in the hope of finding better availability given the compression of the 2022 market? In normal times, your site selection process would include factoring in airlift, weather, meeting space, number of guestrooms, etc.

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CVBs and DMOs: A Hidden Resource for Meeting and Event Professionals

Eventsforce

Turn to the local convention and visitors bureau (CVB) and destination marketing organisation (DMO) to hit an event planning jackpot. Offering attendance marketing tools on the DMO and CVB website, like toolkits for venue searching and booking, to make sure planners have resources to help their event thrive.

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Hitting the Mark with Your Event RFPs

MeetingsNet

Tanna Pearman, meeting broker for Las Vegas-based Meetings Made Easy, handles site selection and contracting for both corporate and association clients, which means her approach to building RFPs focuses on different elements of each meeting to match a given destination and its various hotels.

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To Space and Beyond

PCMA Convene

Claire Hector-Taylor Since the 1990s, we have seen a shift from the public-state market to the privatized space market. Exchanges on that conference project led to this analysis: The space market is a gold mine for innovation, technology, engineering, materials, and all related domains to exploration.

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