SmartMeetings

JULY 15, 2020

Destinations International ’s 2020 Virtual Annual Conference streamed over two days vividly illustrated the challenges and upside of the state of what the organization dubbed The Great Interruption—a pandemic , civil unrest , massive unemployment , a recession and a giant cloud of sand from the Sahara. The lesson? Giving is living.”.

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

When the idea to stage an international, multi-day conference in Bern was born back in 2018, we didn’t know how things would turn out, and that we’d need to change our plans upside down. From a four-day live event format, the conference turned into an e-format and was live-streamed from Bern, Switzerland from 28–30 August 2020.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Ironing out the details early on in the process, booking during the week and being open to unorthodox solutions will help you stay ahead of change. What does that mean for those whose business is to plan meetings, seminars and conferences? It translates into developing experiences that meet demand and exceed expectations.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

A great reason to consider the DuPage County area is for the top-notch and creative Team-Building options: The Corporate Learning Institute , a Chicago-based consultancy, has partnered with the Hilton Chicago Oak Brook Hills Resort and Conference Center to develop a new adventure campus.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 17, 2017

According to the International Congress and Convention Association’s (ICCA) 2016 rankings, the number- one city for international association meetings is Paris. The Athlete Village will be on the UCLA campus, which has several venues for meetings. The Luskin Conference Center is the university’s newest event space.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 30, 2019

When old man winter rears his ugly head, the best thing you can do to boost your conference attendance is to head to Florida—right? We recently had our regular business—conventions, meetings and overall leisure—analyzed, and surprisingly even to us, business is basically at the same percentage for each of the four quarters,” says Bloemendaal.

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StraussCA

APRIL 21, 2022

Not only can you videoconference for meetings, which has been utilized to see each other “face-to-face” for years, I have learned to use it for so much more. The AGM is the gathering of members of an association to carry out such transactions as presenting financial statements and appointing new directors to the board. BoardEffect.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 22, 2024

A private group of investors has purchased Crotonville, General Electric’s management-training facility for nearly 70 years, for $22 million and will operate the suburban New York venue as a conference center—which means that business groups can meet in the same spaces that legendary GE CEO Jack Welch educated his management teams.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This is a follow-up to the May 2018 article, 8 Low-Cost Tips for Making Conferences More Family-Friendly. Severine Bennet agreed to share, in her own words, how International Society of Political Psychology invested in supporting families at the association’s 2019 Annual Meeting. 96 passport books w/stickers.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We are preparing for fewer European attendees as a result of new European regulations restricting the sponsorship of physicians to attend conferences in the U.S. Thinking ahead — The average booking window for large meetings is 2.2 2017 Meetings vs. 2016 Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2017

I’m using my strongest skills in meeting and event planning, so I kind of took a winding route, but it’s a really, really great fit for me. Claire Abrams My whole career’s been in association meeting planning for dental, medical, or commercial associations. You’re always on your toes.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Its rankings by International Congress and Convention Association (ICAA) have risen steadily over the decades: In 2016, Mexico City hosted more association meetings than Toronto, New York City or Washington, D.C. of meeting and convention space. It also hosts the world’s second-largest international book fair.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019. You have to eat the elephant in small bites.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

We’ve had record attendance for our comeback conferences: RSAC, APA and Semi-con—corporate, tech, and association citywide conferences, all who were able to see through the white noise of the press, and all who, once here, marveled at how much the city has turned things around. Figure Skating Championships).

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2021

” Earlier this year, the book Reinventing Live: The Always-on Future of Events was published, after being rushed into production last year during COVID-19 by coauthors Denzil Rankine and Marco Giberti. Rankine said they wondered how different things may be by the time people were able to hold the book in their hands.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Navy and U.S.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

28 percent expect to plan more meetings in 2017; only 3 percent expect to plan fewer meetings. Cutbacks — Despite the continued improving economy, most meeting organizers are still being asked to cut back on meeting expenses, and the majority (63 percent) have been asked to focus on reducing F&B expenses. percent. ›

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

–based Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) held its annual European conference. This was the first CASE Europe conference held outside of the United Kingdom, where most of CASE’s European members are based. And conferences may be our best hope for creating change. The same thing happens at conferences.

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