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Airlines Evolve to Cater to Groups

Smart Meetings

Airlines are updating their business travel programs to be friendlier for groups struggling with last-minute changes, rising costs and reporting requirements. They can be used for travel on United’s partner airlines as well, making connecting flights easier. Old-school seat-blocking didn’t work for airlines or travelers.

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Hard Event Choices: Affordability vs. Sustainability

MeetingsNet

A major survey of planners finds that as meeting costs keep rising, sustainability slides down the list of priorities. With rising prices squeezing business-event budgets in many areas, planners are increasingly basing their venue and service-vendor choices on “value for money” while focusing less on sustainability factors.

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The Benefits of Running a CSR Event

Eventmobi

For example, many airlines run CSR campaigns meant to offset the carbon emissions that result from air travel. As with any event or marketing campaign, you will spend time promoting your CSR initiative through PR, social media, email marketing and other channels. . Oracle OpenWorld holds a sustainable-first CSR event.

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Sustainable event ideas in Lucerne

The MICE

I recently visited Lucerne to attend the ‘Go Sustainable’ study trip, organised by the Lucerne Convention Bureau in collaboration with the Zurich Convention Bureau. This event brought together both destinations to showcase to event planners the extensive possibilities for organising sustainable events.

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U.S. Travel Launches Sustainable Travel Coalition

Smart Meetings

Travel Association has launched the Sustainable Travel Coalition, designed to bring its members together to develop and focus on strategies that will ensure a more sustainable future. With nearly 60 members, the Sustainable Travel Coalition will act as a forum to inform U.S. The post U.S.

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EventMB Is Now Skift Meetings

EventMB

Evolving into Skift Meetings empowers and emboldens us to inform, intrigue and inspire the meeting professionals who will lead the way in defining corporate culture and leading organizational change, AND draw on the larger Skift resources on editorial, research, marketing, sales, tech and more, to enable all of the above. What Changes.

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Market Trends Point to Strong Growth for Meeting Venues

Smart Meetings

The revenue per available hotel room (RevPAR) across the conference and meetings market is predicted to grow by 3.5 percent by the end of the year, thanks in large part to a sustained rise in occupancy numbers and daily room rates, according to a new report. Market-wide, the RevPAR is expected to slow to 3 percent in 2019.

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