PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2016 survey.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 29, 2024

At a recent meetings-industry conference, hotel executives explained how their properties struggle to balance rising operational costs with competitive rates for meeting groups. Next, “labor costs have gone up unexpectedly fast,” well beyond the rate of inflation, said Jeremy See, chief commercial officer for HEI Hotels & Resorts.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One thing she noticed throughout her career was the ubiquitous nature of swag in every sector — in government, nonprofit, for-profit, sports, and entertainment. She realized that she needed “to be able to meet our customers where they are” and to pursue “progress over perfection,” she said. “If The products were crap.”

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Event Industry News

JUNE 25, 2020

BMA House has created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect the ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Whether it is social distancing post-COVID or simply the fact that more people are meeting virtually, we as a venue need to provide options to suit.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2019

Each year, meeting planners who are members of PCMA and an additional group of Convene meeting planner subscribers receive an extensive Meetings Market Survey, which requests proprietary information and budget projections for their organizations. More Meetings Market Survey. 1 Challenge Facing the Meetings Industry?

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Event Industry News

MAY 20, 2020

The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) has announced that both the Meetings Industry Association (mia) and Meetings Professionals International UK & Ireland (MPI) have re-joined the partnership as full members. The association has more than 70 chapters and clubs across 75 countries.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2017

How well are meeting professionals compensated for this agita? But job sites that aren’t specific to the meetings industry lump event planners and event coordinators together. Fifty-six percent of respondents are age 40 and older; 61 percent have more than 10 years of meeting-management experience. Convene Salary Survey 2017.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2017

How well are meeting professionals compensated for this agita? But job sites that aren’t specific to the meetings industry lump event planners and event coordinators together. Fifty-six percent of respondents are age 40 and older; 61 percent have more than 10 years of meeting-management experience. Convene Salary Survey 2017.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

The numbers are in: Slightly fewer meeting professionals received raises compared with last year’s survey, and those increases were significantly less than those received in the prior year. . According to our survey results this year, the overall average salary for meeting professionals is $80,505. And even at 4.35

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And that usually falls under a branch of the local government. Usually, when one thinks of working with a government agency, the thoughts of red tape and untold regulations start to enter into play. Do You Use a Green Meetings Toolkit? By being associated with the CVB, event planners have an array of toolkits at their disposal.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 28, 2016

Activities of a temporary nature — such as meetings and events — are to be registered with Chinese partner entities that agree to serve as sponsors. If you want to succeed in China, he said, you need to work with the government, not against it. You’ve got cities with their different micro economies and micro governments,” he said.

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

Switzerland is a premium country for meetings and events. The lobby lounge bar is a ‘meeting place’ because it’s close to the train station and easy to access for those coming by train even for a meeting. Everyone at this stage is concerned with being associated with a “spreader event”. Full destination spotlight video.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Meeting Planner, Association of American Medical Colleges. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? Heading home from our annual meeting a few years ago. It was so much fun just relaxing and visiting with everyone, knowing that the meeting had been such a success. Alexandra Adsit.

2018 76

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

Travel Association meets on March 8 with the U.S. The good news is that the federal government is listening to the industry’s calls. Travel Association on promoting business travel and how to best help the travel and tourism sector recover. With no more worker visas available until October, the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the election over, associations can help set the tone for discourse in the months and years ahead. Starting in January, we will have a divided government, but associations can be brokers for conversation and for compromise. The election is over, but associations remain very much hard at work.

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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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

Silber works with clients that include professional organizations, the pharmaceutical and device industries, technology companies and startups, hospitals, and government agencies. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings. She founded Doctors 2.0. &

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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

JANUARY 31, 2017

International meetings, conventions, and other business events are melting pots. So many of our communities are like that now — from Burning Man to biker meet-ups to book groups. I believe that any program where people meet “the other” can be incredibly valuable.’. Outrage is in, discourse is out. DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE.

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