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Mindful Moments for the Full Mind: A Guide for Meeting Professionals

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Celebrate Small Wins In the fast-paced world of meeting planning, we often move straight from one task to the next without pausing to celebrate. Charlotte encourages meeting professionals to reward themselves by taking a break from the hustle and letting someone else handle the details for a change.

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Transform Your Event Planning with Kardoe: The Ultimate Event Management Software

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Kardoe is revolutionising event planning software for 2025, delivering a comprehensive solution for event professionals who need powerful meeting planning software that scales. As a premier event scheduling software, Kardoe streamlines every aspect of your event operations.

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Experts: Travel Industry Could Coast Through Recession

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I don’t foresee association consolidations happening before 2025. When it comes to mergers and consolidation, the two big ones that recently closed— Informa’s acquisition of B2B Events company Tarsus in early March for $940 million and Blackstone’s acquisition of Cvent for $6.4 billion—may not be the beginning of an avalanche of deals.

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Your IMEX America 2024 Recap: Day Two

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In addition to Hilton’s acquisitions, they also discussed Hilton’s 2025 Trends Report, in which the team surveyed 13,000 people, including 4,100 Hilton team members. “The first thing we came up with was Hilton Meeting Packages. Destination Management.

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Smart Moves in New Orleans, San Antonio and More

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He will now lead the hotel, overseeing all operational aspects, as it approaches a milestone 25 th anniversary in 2025. She brings over 20 years of meeting planning experience, most recently serving as senior meetings and event planner for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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Highlights from IMEX America 2016

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An eager crowd of around 70 meetings industry professionals gathered to hear a cosmopolitan line-up of business executives talk about the disruptive possibilities of the sharing economy.

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DEI at a Crossroads 

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The future of inclusion in meetings and events On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14151, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, a federal rollback of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. ” The post DEI at a Crossroads appeared first on Smart Meetings.