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Key Takeaways from MPI Northern California ACE 2025

Smart Meetings

Thanks to early negotiations and booking further out, hotels are able to adjust for inflation more effectively, and as business and conference travel continues to rebound post-pandemic, they can also raise prices more aggressively. Here, Smart Meetings brings you the key takeaways. #1

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Budget, Innovation and Engagement Ideas Were Centerstage at Global DMC Partners Annual

Smart Meetings

MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) market is expected to grow by 7.8 percent between 2024 and 2030, according to Grand View Research, and the European market is on a similar track. If you can contract far enough in advance, you can secure better rates before supply is squeezed.

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SEARCYS JOINS AS CATERING PARTNER FOR CHURCH HOUSE WESTMINISTER

Prestige Events Magazine

British caterer and restaurateur, Searcys, announces its partnership with event and conference venue, Church House Westminster , providing catering services across the venue in a seven-year contract.

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Expanding Event-Management Firm Adopts Robust Site-Search Platform

MeetingsNet

The parent company’s rationale for these moves: Streamline its event-management operations to take advantage of a projected seven-percent increase for the global meetings sector each year from 2024 to 2030.

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#RotterdamExperiment 2 – The best gamification is gamification that is unnoticed

The MICE

Gamifying a conference – ShipCon case study. Anne Geelhoed, Vice-Chair at YoungShip Rotterdam, shared how they pivoted their bi-annual conference—ShipCon—into a virtual format. According to Anne, ‘Taking a conference online brings its own challenges (e.g., One of the tools used was ‘The Sopranos’.

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Measuring an Event’s Carbon Footprint — It’s All in the Details

PCMA Convene

The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, launched in late 2021 during the UN Climate Change Conference, signaled a commitment by tourism industry organizations to slash carbon emissions in half by 2030 and achieve net zero before 2050. That’s when the site selection contracts end — that’s now 2025,” Hansen said.