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Case Study: A Masterclass in Goosebump Moments

Smart Meetings

Part of the reason budgets have become more challenging is a shift to cover hotel and airline costs away from activities and agency fees.The spend for a destination experience that makes a trip unique going down is not good for anyone, including the attendee, he said. We need to stand strong, he concluded.

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Preview Las Vegas 2025: A Capital of Multitudes

Smart Meetings

The Prices are Too Damn High Aguero put up a chart showing the prices of consumer products like electricity, airline fares, food, vehicles, childcare and more, highlighting that the price of everything has gone up. The post Preview Las Vegas 2025: A Capital of Multitudes appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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IMEX 22 Welcomed Record Number of Attendees

Smart Meetings

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. And Marriott partnered with Google on The NEU Project to pioneer ways to design more neuro-diverse-friendly events. And a bright, tropical design freshened the halls and meeting spaces.

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IMEX 22 Welcomed Record Number of Attendees

Smart Meetings

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. And Marriott partnered with Google on The NEU Project to pioneer ways to design more neuro-diverse-friendly events. And a bright, tropical design freshened the halls and meeting spaces.

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Four Views on How the Pandemic Will Change How We Meet

PCMA Convene

Although society is now more at ease with digital services, we also have become even more aware that humans want to be together to learn, exchange information, and engage — and that there is huge value in human interaction at face-to-face events. In terms of the meetings industry, I think we’ve learned a lot. Conference of Mayors.

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What Does an Event Designed With Empathy Look Like?

PCMA Convene

I think too often event planners start with, “It’s our annual meeting. What needs can we meet for them? What event planners do, and I’m guilty, is you put on an event, you are very grateful if the room is filled, and then you survey and say, “How did we do?” How do we get everybody here?”

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What’s the Meetings Industry’s Biggest Challenge?

PCMA Convene

When it comes to Convene ’s Annual Meetings Market Survey results, words can speak louder than numbers. Each year, we get a sense for the big-picture direction of the meetings industry as we pore over your individual answers to open-ended questions like this one: What’s the number-one challenge facing the meetings industry? .