SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Is 2017 a buyer’s or a seller’s market for hotel supply growth? We are reaching the point where this technology is becoming more affordable and attainable, which means that meetings and conferences could see practical applications in educational programs, product demos and speeches. Meeting planners do, too.

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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. Funding Priorities. Make a Difference.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 16, 2019

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today announced the launch of a £250,000 competition to improve broadband connectivity for event venues that have conference facilities. Conferences. It is open for six weeks and will end at 23:59 on Friday 27 th September 2019. The sector is currently worth £32.6

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SmartMeetings

MAY 14, 2018

Academic conferences are very important to the careers of professors and researchers. Conferences also provide networking opportunities with other professors, publishers, universities and vendors. Attending one, two or three conferences a year can make a huge difference in an academic career. Look for hotels with family suites.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You can’t make a list of meetings industry thought leaders without including Michael Dominguez, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International. If you drew a Venn diagram of board members over the past decade who have served Meeting Professionals International, U.S.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Mark Cooper, CEO, International Association of Conference Centers; and chairman, EIC. Travel Association. Michelle Mason, FASAE, CAE, CQIA, president and CEO, Association Forum. Brad Mayne, president and CEO, International Association of Venue Managers. Lynette Montoya, president and CEO, Latino Hotel Association.

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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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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Companies have more money for meetings, but planners have less funds to host the events. Meanwhile, hotels are charging higher rates while supply struggles to keep up with demand. percent increase expected in hotel room rates. And with more meetings needing hotel rooms, costs will go up. But don’t be alarmed.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

In fact, the biggest hindrance to association meeting planning right now is that “time is ticking away,” Colangelo said. You are seeing the focus on virtual, and also seeing meeting planners having to create an “insurance policy” for their associations by potentially producing digital and live meetings simultaneously.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Are you one of the more than 1,000 association meeting professionals attending the California Society of Association Executives (CalSAE) Holiday Spectacular at Sacramento Convention Center this week? The conference is a once-a-year chance to see all of your friends and find new solutions. At the Conference.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

With more than 2 million square feet of combined meeting space, and nearly 16,000 guest rooms in more than 100 hotels, the professional staff will help you find the perfect fit for your next meeting or event. > Collecting proposals from hotels and meeting facilities matching your criteria. >

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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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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

With dozens of beautiful ships mirroring the best hotels in the world, readily accessing bucket list destinations in favorable cost structures and enhancing opportunities for strong relationship-building, more groups are turning to cruises to create memorable events. A Ship for Everybody. “We’ve Cost and Inclusiveness.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

ABPCO (the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers) has announced details of the content line up for the Festival of Learning taking place from 1 st -9 th December, sponsored by GES. Register here – [link]. Registration is open at [link]. For more information about ABPCO visit www.abpco.org.

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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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Event Industry News

MAY 9, 2018

The results of the “Meeting- & EventBarometer 2017/2018” reveal the importance of digitisation and internationalisation for the German meetings, conference and events sector. Attending meetings and conferences also plays an important role for the 2.2 Hybrid meetings flourish. of all events they work on.

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Connect Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A culinary and cultural hub, socially and politically progressive, Berkeley sets the stage with meeting and event venues ranging from grand ballrooms and conference-ready hotels, to dramatic theater spaces and private dining rooms in fantastic restaurants. There’s also the Berkeley bonus.

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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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Cvent: Event Marketing

APRIL 16, 2019

Are attendees paying for conference attendance or are their companies? With past attendees, find out what they liked most and least about previous destinations, hotels and convention centers. Chances are your organization is not paying for the attendee – especially with an association meeting or user conference.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

From recently renovated hotels, to our newly built Huntington Convention Center; Cleveland is a hot spot to host your event! The connecting healthcare facility provides natural light in the ballrooms, executive boardroom, and conference center. Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland.

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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. I am finding it difficult to find venues that meet our needs and stay within budget. I feel that I am being pushed out into less desirable locations/hotels.”.

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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. 38,479 hotels rooms (four-star and above) at 600 hotels. of meeting and convention space.

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Master the Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And many meetings are now conducted virtually with the use of video conference calls. Many meeting planners are also telling me that a lot of their delegates are supporting green meetings. Many are actually inquiring with planners on how they can help make any meetings they are attending become as green as possible.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Winners received complimentary PCMA membership along with registration to both PCMA Convening Leaders 2018 this month and the 2018 PCMA Education Conference in June. I’ve had many great moments, but if I have to mention one in particular, that would be the last day of our conference in Japan this year. Alexandra Adsit. Erica Critzer.

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StraussCA

JULY 5, 2024

Value of The Meeting One of the value propositions that associations have provided since the beginning of time is the ability to connect members with similar interests and/or challenges, bringing them together to share experiences and learn from each other.

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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. Then I had the opportunity to work for a firm in Washington, D.C.

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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. Family Friendly from the Start.

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Event Industry News

MAY 20, 2020

The mia represents more than 800 members within the business events industry from hotels, venues and industry suppliers. The association also runs the AIM accreditation scheme, the UK’s only recognised accreditation scheme for the meetings and events industry.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

of contiguous space and sits within walking distance to more than 19,000 hotel rooms. The Fairmont San Francisco dates to 1903, when two sisters—Theresa Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt—decided to build a spectacular boutique hotel in the heart of San Francisco’s Nob Hill.

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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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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2020

Two bodies of research highlight planners’ challenges and potential attendees’ preferences when it comes to meetings. 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.

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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 Heart Attack on a Plate.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In 2015, respondents held an average of approximately 14 committee meetings, 10 training sessions, 9 seminars, 7 board meetings, and 5 other types of meetings. Sixty-eight percent of respondents (compared to 62 percent in the 2015 survey) report that they are booking their small meetings more than six months out.

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