Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2024

What to expect at Business Events Industry Week 2024 The meetings and events industry calendar is a crowded place, filled with must-attend association conferences, regional gatherings and our own projects, especially in the summer and fall. The group will meet April 9 at ASAE’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Connect Your Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Back in May, news reports of airport security lines stretching for what seemed like miles in hubs like Chicago and Atlanta sparked new conversations about what’s long been causing headaches for meeting planners: air travel. Many agree that the airline industry itself is broken, yet improvements by major U.S.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2020

In a late June webinar that drew more than 700 corporate and association meeting planners, 64 percent of attendees responded that they expect their organizations to return to holding in-person events by January 2021. 70 percent say they can get more work done now that they don’t have as many in-person meetings.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 3, 2023

They often managed with reduced headcount even while reimagining many meetings as virtual events and working with hotels, where staffing shortages have been most acute. And now that the demand for in-person events has recovered nicely since mid-2022, planning departments have had to scramble to meet the demand.

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