IMG

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Here are the event trends for 2023. From Marketing Events to Diversity and Inclusion event experiences, this year’s trends will help you be more impactful and get the most out of every opportunity you have to meet with your team or clients. GET YOUR COPY OF THE 2023 STATE OF INDUSTRY REPORT NOW ! GET YOUR COPY NOW!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 15, 2023

According to a study by the World Scholarship Vault , event planner stress levels are hitting a new high — the third-most stressful job in the world for 2023. Event planners are experiencing sticker shock from rising costs for audiovisual, food and beverage, and other direct meeting expenses. But things have changed.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

Wyboston Lakes Resorts has delivered a record six months of Meetings and Events business for the first half of 2022, despite restrictions around events in January and February following the Omicron outbreak. Business on the books at the six-month point is up by 47% on 2019 with a solid base already in place for 2023.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2024

Accessible, healthy, creative food and the people who order F&B for events took center stage at Smart Meetings Culinary Experience at Paris Las Vegas this week. Meetings & Events founder Tracy Stuckrath kicked off the insights with a primer on not killing or offending your attendees.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Healthy Meeting Resources Help Planners Start Meaningful Discussions Looking for an easy way to keep everyone healthy when putting together an agenda? A History of Meeting Well The current focus on healthy meeting spaces is not the first time brands have gone beyond accommodating “dates and rates” to differentiate their spaces.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 24, 2025

In search of comfortable-yet-affordable accommodations for your next meeting or event? Planning a meeting in the UK or Ireland? These perks are designed to enhance the overall guest experience, making it an appealing option for meeting profs looking to impress their attendees. just became easier.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Breaking down the company’s recent sustainability strategy International exhibition and convention center ExCel London is a carbon-neutral venue and an advocate for the path towards green meetings. There, over 300,000 worms convert leftover food waste into compost that is used in the center’s green spaces. At over 100,000 sq.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 6, 2024

And, as always, the Forecast includes our Annual Meetings Market Survey , which gives us a strong sense of where we stand at this moment in time the ups, the downs, the challenges, and our overall mood. Consumers expect businesses to meet them where they are, with service thats tailored to their needs.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Chase’s key objective for the 2023 US Open, which ran from Aug. Returning for 2023, the Chase Pass is a digital pass that consolidates all customer-exclusive benefits on-site under one umbrella. Kate Schoff, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co. 22 to Sept. Dedicated fans came out in full force to snag a coveted spot.

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Event Marketer

MAY 1, 2023

Last year may have marked the post-pandemic return of Coachella, but 2023 signaled its renaissance. Photo credit: Shutterstock for BDG POSTMATES For its third year partnering with Coachella, food delivery service Postmates turned up the heat with a garden-inspired footprint themed around its chief offering: tasty treats.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

Instead of plastic, we use re-useable and recyclable aluminium cans, glass or ceramic jugs for milk and all our food is served in sustainable food boxes. We now have a 50 per cent plant-based food and beverage menu, beef has been removed from our menus, all our deserts are plant-based (and taste delicious!)

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Fine dining, diverse cuisine and unique culinary experiences When traveling internationally, one of the ways in which visitors can tangibly absorb the culture, personality and literal taste of the destination is through food. Dinner entree from Ginza Toyoda But travelers to Tokyo can expect more than traditional Japanese food.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2023

How to kick up the empathy and excitement-quotient at events Smart Meetings Extraordinary Texas Event at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin brought leadership strategies, technology innovations, experiential gifting and fun F&B ideas from the award-winning magazine to life for three days and we are sharing the aha moments with you.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 24, 2023

Exhibitors, industry professionals and other attendees will meet at the second annual SIAL America 2023 , organized by Emerald X at Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) to showcase food and beverage categories that are key to retailers, wholesalers, food service companies and distributors. “We

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2023

A meeting professional veteran share tricks for managing inflation, expectations and savings Money moves mountains. The prices are so high for the individual menu items that the value of what you’re getting doesn’t equate a lot of times,” Pilcher stated, “I’m getting so much less food.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

billion in funding for generative AI startups was announced within the first three months of 2023 alone. We’re thrilled to welcome meeting and event attendees back to the City by the Bay. San Francisco’s welcoming people, its unbeatable food scene, and its endless activity regularly lead to record-breaking meeting attendance.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2024

Smart Meetings spoke to Liu to learn more about Atlantis Bahamas’ environmental stewardship, ocean preservation and conservation initiatives and how planners can get involved when meeting there. How Planners Can Get Involved We know that meetings can be wasteful. But at the end of the day, it benefits our environment.”

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2023

Annual conference center gathering in Durham addressed staffing, sustainability and collaboration A nine-year average drop in the age of the meeting/hospitality professional since the start of the pandemic translates into a loss of nine years of collective knowledge. Knowledge is what helps you handle the unexpected,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Working with the United Kingdom-based sustainability consultant isla , a total of 92% of event waste was recovered by diverting it into recycling, composting or donation channels, meeting the threshold for a zero-waste event. A total of 14,557 pounds of food has been donated in that time. As a group, participants walked more than 4.2

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Smart Meetings

JULY 22, 2022

Newly opened Thompson Austin is tailored to the needs of meetings and events professionals. of event space, Origin Austin’s Flight Room can accommodate up to 49 guests for small to mid-sized meetings. It combines remixed comfort food with a chic mid-century modern indoor and outdoor seating. Thompson Austin. With 799 sq.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2023

The foundation for providing top-shelf catering was laid by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, who believed that catering services shouldn’t be mired in mass-produced batches of food in hot boxes and served in chafing dishes. They were really interested and willing to change it up,” Brunson said.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Germany, Berlin and Canada all welcome new and renovated hotels For your next international meetings and excursions, look no further than these new and renovated properties. of meeting space, made up of 11 facilities. Guests can also enjoy food and beverage offerings at the site. Planners can enjoy over 8,600 sq.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Smart Meetings sat down with Dr. Richie Karaburun , Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of HI Hub Incubator of NYU School of Professional Studies, to explore the entrepreneurship hub designed to support up-and-coming hospitality business ideas. The idea emerged as a way to “minimize food waste in the hospitality industry.”

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Following are considerations gathered from industry media, meetings market surveys and anecdotal reports from Velvet Chainsaw Consulting clients. Despite projections of persistent inflation and a moderate economic recession, CBRE’s forecast calls for a close to 6% increase in rooms revenue per available room (RevPAR) in 2023.”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Smart Meetings chatted with Michelle Crosby, CMP, CITP, an account executive at Bright Spot Incentives and Events, and Yvette Campbell, CMP, a meeting broker at Meetings Made Easy, to explore how planners can seek out third-party agencies and independent planners that fit their needs and how to integrate resources into their organization.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2024

After joining the team in 2023 as sports and special events coordinator, Simo has demonstrated immense passion and dedication for her projects. He joined ACVB in 2023 as a sales coordinator. She brings over 20 years of experience in meetings and events industry sales and business development. Louis as a leading destination.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Participants tracked steps and earned points for eating plant-based food or taking a walking tour using an app. Smart Meetings talked to some attendees who made careful plans to ensure they could stick to their goals and found welcome partners in the quest. Bartenders often had non-alcoholic, functional juice-based beverages available.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Before working in sales and marketing, he spent 15 years in food and beverage roles with Hyatt. Jessop is director of sales for Hyatt Resort Alliance , a new role that serves as liaison between sales and on-property sellers at Hyatt’s Resort Alliance properties, Hyatt Sales Force and meeting planners. Rachel O’Neill-Cusey.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 5, 2023

IACC’s Meeting Rooms of the Future Trends Report Shows Rising Desire for Meaningful Experiences Meeting professionals are increasingly turning to unique venues to help design meaningful experiences, according to the 7th annual International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) Meeting Rooms of the Future Trends Report released in June.

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EventMB

AUGUST 15, 2024

Now in its second year, Skift Meetings Awards celebrate the industry’s most respected suppliers, setting the standard for excellence in business events. So, without any further ado, here are the 2024 Skift Meetings Awards winners! At Marriott, innovation transcends all aspects of the global business.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 26, 2024

Mahon is also a 2021 Smart Woman in Meetings: Innovator award winner. Phoenix Porcelli and James Frankis Phoenix Porchelli (left) and James Frankis (right), Convene Convene , a hospitality company that manages and designs meeting, event and office spaces, promotes two senior leadership team members. branded property in Louisiana.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2024

Holidays, historic occasions, themes, fruits, vegetables, sports, animals and all types of food are celebrated by costumed people marching down a street. 2023 Festival of Lights Parade, Palm Springs, California, photo: Upbeat Parade Productions Pulver has been producing parades for more than 30 years.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 24, 2021

of meeting and banquet space, including 50 meeting rooms and six ballrooms, one of which is a 23,000-square-foot, Strip-facing ballroom with floor-to-ceiling windows. A customized food app, On the Fly at Resorts World, lets guests order up the property’s F&B and retail options for delivery to their rooms and the resort’s 5.5-acre

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He recounted last April when he visited a farm and had a meal where all the food was local. A great example of Virginia Beach tapping into its local farms for events at Virginia Beach Convention Center was the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Conference held in November 2023. That’s helping with our carbon emission reduction.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

17, 2023, appoints Pinette as Lodge Manager. She will promote Fort Myers as a top destination for meetings and group travel to the MICE industry in her assigned region. He has worked with Marriott since 2011 and has excelled in food & beverage roles.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Free meeting space? As corporate and association event planners gear up for the first full year since 2019 without Covid-related meeting restrictions—but with a choppy economic outlook too—they harbor a mix of positive and negative expectations about how they’ll coordinate and execute their upcoming events. Absolutely. Fat chance.

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