Event Industry News

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since launch, the venue has already hosted a number of high-profile events, including banquets, conferences and smaller meetings. This is such an exciting time for Birmingham and the CHS show couldn’t have come at a better time for us or the city,” commented Leanne Bladen, sales & marketing director, The Eastside Rooms.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 18, 2016

For your next refreshment break, instead of the typical buffet of pastries, cookies, and cakes, try a balance of whole, colorful, fresh foods. These will help keep your attendees focused, and productive—and they boost the immune system, and provide the body balanced nourishment for all-day energy.

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

Switzerland is a premium country for meetings and events. On the food and beverage side, the hotel has Jack’s brasserie, also known as the ‘Bernese institution’ and is named after the father of one of the previous owners of the Gauer family, a veteran hotelier family in Switzerland. Full destination spotlight video.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 23, 2023

Based on several hundred planner responses, MPI’s latest industry outlook finds that rising prices have strained meeting budgets, and will likely continue to do so into 2024. Heading up the list is food and beverage, where 55 percent of planners have dealt with costs that are at least 10 percent higher than they were one year prior.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Generate excitement without blowing your budget with these chef-tested meeting and event food and beverage trends. By Anne Thornley-Brown. read more.

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Corporate meeting planners are always looking for creative ways that they can trim their meetings budget without losing too much of the overall program. Today, corporate meeting planners have a tough job. Of course for many corporations and associations meetings are a vital part of their operation.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do You Use a Green Meetings Toolkit? By being associated with the CVB, event planners have an array of toolkits at their disposal. As they have ample catering facilities on site, their food and beverage costs are quite competitive compared to other meeting facility venues.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

APRIL 16, 2019

You have fallen in love with a destination and want to hold your next meeting there. Green and healthy meetings are on the rise, as well as family-friendly destinations. Chances are your organization is not paying for the attendee – especially with an association meeting or user conference. Food & Beverage.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 12, 2016

Check out these creative ideas for getting attendees past the mid-afternoon slump and through a long meeting day with energy and good humor. read more.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Sixty of the luxury chain’s hotels are participating in a personalized approach to décor, wellness, and F&B called, “A Meeting of the Senses.”. read more.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Sixty of the luxury chain’s hotels are participating in a personalized approach to décor, wellness, and F&B called, “A Meeting of the Senses.”. read more.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Conference centers are going cozy, creative, and high tech, according to IACC’s Meeting Room of the Future study. read more.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There were more reasons than ever to attend IMEX America 2016, the biggest three-day exposition for incentive travel, meetings and events, which concluded yesterday at Sands Expo and Convention Center at The Venetian | The Palazzo Las Vegas. Among the initiatives that IMEX America has introduced to meet this need is the EventTechTours.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Nearly half of attendees in a recent survey said they fell asleep or felt drowsy during a meeting. Hilton’s Meet with Purpose program gives planners plug-and-play menu and activity ideas designed to wake them right up. read more.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 27, 2016

Why F&B consultant Tracy Stuckrath believes the meetings industry needs to expand its definition of inclusion to encompass those who have dietary restrictions. read more.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 27, 2016

What you need to know to keep your next event from going up in smoke now that recreational pot is being legalized in an increasing number of states. read more.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 27, 2016

What you need to know to keep your next event from going up in smoke now that recreational pot is being legalized in an increasing number of states. read more.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

We’re thrilled to welcome meeting and event attendees back to the City by the Bay. San Francisco’s welcoming people, its unbeatable food scene, and its endless activity regularly lead to record-breaking meeting attendance. And in the past year, a dozen new meeting and event spaces have opened throughout the city.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2021

What would you say is the biggest challenge for a traditional association meeting planner? 1 skillset is no longer your food and beverage and your contracting of the venue and so on. We’ll find that we don’t just necessarily have annual meetings. So we will get to that point — the sooner the better.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 7, 2022

Travel Association meets on March 8 with the U.S. Many H2-B visa holders are employed by leisure-oriented properties, but also by hotels’ food-and-beverage departments and restaurants in cities popular for business travel. With no more worker visas available until October, the U.S.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Every year, when we compile the latest Meetings Market Survey results, we compare them to the previous year’s survey. Those disclaimers aside, Convene ’s annual Meetings Market Survey continues to be recognized as an important piece of benchmarking research in the meetings industry. In last year’s survey: +2.9 percent. ›

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