Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2024

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. How can meeting professionals get creative to save costs while preserving impact? Like most things in life, timing makes a difference.

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MAY 17, 2016

The Ritz-Carlton launches Impact Experiences Program, a Community Footprints program offering conference and group guests the opportunity to participate in socially responsible activities that make a positive impact on the destination while fostering collaboration and a great sense of accomplishment.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Work came to an abrupt halt, conferences and events were cancelled or postponed and creative online solutions were needed fast. An awareness of the impact of the industry on the climate and the digitisation of events and conferences has been a trend for a while.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

– Association quadruples footprint in Sweden – IACC , the global association representing the top 1% of small to midsize conference and meeting venues, has announced a partnership with Sweden’s leading meetings expert, Svenska Möten.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To accommodate the additional visitors, the show increased in scale by almost eight per cent, adopting new halls within Excel London’s Level-0, where visitors could enjoy large new conference stages and hospitality areas. It revealed that international tourism arrivals are expected to hit a record 1.5 billion in 2024, surpassing 2019 values.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Silverstone has revealed a new business sustainability strategy in its race to have a positive impact on the planet and to be part of the change as Formula 1® continues its drive to be Net-Zero Carbon by 2030. Sustainability initiatives are already on track, with technology leading the way.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

That figure is expected to rise to 48% in 2020 and 75% in 2030. We’ve had questions from Generation Z and the millennials that go along the lines of ‘why did you book us into this hotel when there’s an Airbnb down the road that’s cheaper and more environmentally sound? In 2016, millennials made up 36% of the average organisation.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 9, 2021

With that in mind, Smith co-founded Tourism Declares Climate Emergency to unite tour operators, DMCs, hotels, and every type of business in the travel industry to do its part to cut carbon emissions. For most associations, hosting meetings and conferences fall into their regular operations. degrees of warming,” Smith said.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

With 20,000 hotel rooms in easy walking distance, as well as a wide variety of restaurants and local attractions, fewer buses and Uber rides are required. In addition, all cleaning products from hand soap to floor cleaner to paint are environmentally friendly. Anaheim Convention Center.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2019

In the UAE, Dubai is continuing to benefit from its long-established brand in the business events world and now is home to over 96,000 bedrooms across 501 hotels, as well as over 7million sq ft of convention space. The country’s convention bureau is now promoting Cyprus as a world-class conference and events location. year-over-year.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s hard to think of a conference with higher stakes than COP26, which took place Oct. COP26 is shorthand for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, a summit which brought leaders from more than 130 nations together to negotiate a global plan to address climate change. Dean Calma/IAEA). Dean Calma/IAEA).

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 12, 2018

While the majority of PCMA Education Conference participants were at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland on June 11, a collection of medical meeting professionals made a quick trip to explore the future of patient care at the Cleveland Clinic. Photo by Jacob Slaton. Experts on the sprawling campus, ranked no. 2 on U.S.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

IACC, the global association representing the top 1% of small to midsize conference and meeting venues, has announced a partnership with Sweden’s leading meetings expert, Svenska Möten. The partnership will see 68 new hotels and venues becoming part of IACC’s 88 strong Swedish membership, quadrupling the association’s presence in Sweden.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Huber then shared research conducted by ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, which calculated the carbon impact of moving a set of academic conferences from different destinations throughout Europe to one central location with a major airport: Frankfurt, Germany.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The CVB has launched the Tourism for Good strategy with a goal to allow tourism to have a positive impact on sustainable development both locally and globally by 2030. Food is a major overlooked source of carbon emissions,” the conference program said. One of those efforts was to spell out the CO2 calculations on the food served.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 4, 2024

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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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Also just outside the city is Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, the world’s largest single-site solar park, projected to generate up to 1,000 megawatts of clean energy by 2020 and 5,000 megawatts by 2030. In 2017, approximately 3 percent of the conference center’s total production of food went to the food bank.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

With 20,000 hotel rooms in easy walking distance, as well as a wide variety of restaurants and local attractions, fewer buses and Uber rides are required. In addition, all cleaning products from hand soap to floor cleaner to paint are environmentally friendly. Anaheim Convention Center.

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Slido

JUNE 15, 2019

Conference call poll questions. Taken shampoo and conditioner from hotels? Who will people in 2030 trust more with their babies: robots or human baby-sitters? Conference call poll questions. These poll questions will help you break the ice during a conference call. Learning-focused poll questions. Mind reading.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

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. In other words, is it a three-star hotel or a five-star hotel?

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2017

These top-tier cities are meetings hotspots, with enough convention space and hotel rooms to accommodate thousands of attendees at any given time, plus the cultural amenities and intangible cachet to keep them around. None of that is new to you. describes as being for “people, planet, and prosperity.”. Photo Credit Simon Casson Phootgrapher.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hotels and venues will therefore have little choice but to increase rates in 2022 to cover their increasing costs,” Mclaughlin points out. Rising costs and expectations. Next year venues will continue to suffer from staff shortages, rising energy bills and supply chain issues as a combined result of the pandemic and Brexit.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

In a report by World Travel & Tourism Council and JLL, “ Destination 2030: Global Cities’ Readiness For Sustainable Tourism Growth ,” the two organizations take a look at the cities making tourism sustainable. To promote tourism, the city reinvests tourism revenue fees via its hotel occupancy tax. Barcelona; and 10.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

Consider the fact that the global events industry was officially added, as of last fall, as a partner in the United Nations’ drive to reach SDGs by 2030. A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. But that is changing fast. If most attendees are taking flights to and from an event, those numbers add up quickly.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Cutting global food loss and waste in half by 2030 “is critical if we’re to feed the world without destroying the planet.”. The Hotel Hershey, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, joined with American Hotel & Lodging Association and World Wildlife Fund to demo ways to cut food waste. Courtesy WWF). Taking a Leadership Role.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Consider the fact that the global events industry was officially added, as of last fall, as a partner in the United Nations’ drive to reach SDGs by 2030. A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. But that is changing fast. If most attendees are taking flights to and from an event, those numbers add up quickly.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The group will inform the governments forthcoming National Visitor Economy Strategy and its plans for the UK to welcome 50 million international visitors per year by 2030. It is co-chaired by Tourism Minister Sir Chris Bryant and Karin Sheppard, IHG Hotel & Resorts Managing Director for Europe.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The capital of Havana has transformed numerous historic buildings into modern hotels and added new resorts. As of October 2018, the country was home to 69,000 hotel rooms, 63 percent of them with 4 or 5 stars. percent occupancy rate in state-run hotels,” says Martha Honey, CREST co-founder and executive director.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read More : US Travel: All Meetings Are Not Equal Similarly, American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey called the election “a historic victory.” The hotel industry is an economic powerhouse for the U.S. Then Carey offered some background. And it just gets busier from there.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read More : US Travel: All Meetings Are Not Equal Similarly, American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey called the election “a historic victory.” The hotel industry is an economic powerhouse for the U.S. Then Carey offered some background. And it just gets busier from there.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read More : US Travel: All Meetings Are Not Equal Similarly, American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey called the election “a historic victory.” The hotel industry is an economic powerhouse for the U.S. Then Carey offered some background. And it just gets busier from there.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The capital of Havana has transformed numerous historic buildings into modern hotels and added new resorts. As of October 2018, the country was home to 69,000 hotel rooms, 63 percent of them with 4 or 5 stars. percent occupancy rate in state-run hotels,” says Martha Honey, CREST co-founder and executive director.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Read More : US Travel: All Meetings Are Not Equal Similarly, American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey called the election “a historic victory.” The hotel industry is an economic powerhouse for the U.S. Then Carey offered some background. And it just gets busier from there.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Read More : US Travel: All Meetings Are Not Equal Similarly, American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey called the election “a historic victory.” The hotel industry is an economic powerhouse for the U.S. Then Carey offered some background. And it just gets busier from there.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Read More : US Travel: All Meetings Are Not Equal Similarly, American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey called the election “a historic victory.” The hotel industry is an economic powerhouse for the U.S. Then Carey offered some background. And it just gets busier from there.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Read More : US Travel: All Meetings Are Not Equal Similarly, American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey called the election “a historic victory.” The hotel industry is an economic powerhouse for the U.S. Then Carey offered some background. And it just gets busier from there.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2022

Urban Villages, the company behind the construction of the upcoming Populus hotel in Denver, will be creating the first “carbon-positive” hotel in the United States, scheduled to open late 2023. The 265-room Denver hotel being developed by Urban Villages will have 4,400 sq. Hotel Marcel will have 9,922 sq.

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