Smart Meetings

APRIL 1, 2025

As the days grow longer and the weather invites gatherings in the open air, outdoor meeting and event spaces present a golden opportunity for hotels to boost revenue. Here are five proven strategies to help you market your outdoor spaces, attract bookings, and elevate your revenue potential for the 2025 season.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The latest data from Venue Directory offers an in-depth look at how the industry is evolving. Below is a comprehensive analysis of these trends, with a focus on the implications for event organisers and venues. Events were heavily restricted, and venues faced long closures, contributing to a large fall in demand.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2025

As a hotel sales manager, your goal is to fill rooms, book meeting spaces, and bring in new clients. Below, weve broken down some simple strategies to help you increase bookings and build stronger relationships with your clients. Sign up for the monthly Behind the Bookings newsletter here 1. We appreciate your support.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Launched to increase meeting and event bookings across its extensive UK portfolio, the campaign incentivised booking agents with unique prizes, and results have exceeded expectations. These winners were recognised for their contribution to driving bookings throughout the campaign period.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel has opened its eagerly awaited ‘Garden View’ room, now available for meeting and event bookings. It’s part of our ongoing commitment to enhancing our facilities and providing a high-level experience for our meetings and events guests.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Refract Seattle 2024 was the largest yet, in the festival’s sixth year—and it’s a shining example of an opportunity for business meetings and events, from citywides to VIP groups, to get connected with the locale of their chosen destination in an unforgettable way.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 7, 2025

The venues Skyline Terrace, boasting views of the iconic Westminster Abbey, will be available for hire from June to August, providing event planners with an impressive location for their summer socials. Please email westminster@chvenues.com or call 0207222 8010 for more information and bookings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

billion) of MICE business volume was sourced through the Cvent Supplier Network, one of the worlds largest MICE hotel and venue sourcing marketplaces. These significant milestones underscore the value that organisations place on meetings and events in achieving critical business objectives. Last year, $16.5 billion (13.1

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

Sutton Hotel Collection is delighted to announce the launch of its new Meet Well, Live Well delegate meeting package designed to place wellbeing at the heart of every meeting. Fresh smoothies and non-alcoholic cocktails for breaks and post-meeting networking sessions. Wellbeing gift in the meeting room for all delegates.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 12, 2025

Located in the heart of Londons legal district, this elegant venue provides a refined backdrop with architectural beauty and adaptable spaces for any gathering. Whether you’re after drinks and dancing, team-building with flair or a sophisticated soire, the venues versatile rooms cater to every format.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Unique London events venue, Church House, Westminster , has had a record-breaking year for Christmas party bookings, with eight taking place this festive season and one already confirmed for Christmas 2025. With a noticeable increase in bookings this year, particularly from the U.S., and 12 within the UK. and 12 within the UK.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

ECOsmart by Greengage is the leading certification system for hotels, meeting venues, short stay apartments and pubs with meeting rooms. The Wesley hotel has also set up with EVENTsmart,Greengage’s carbon calculator, which lets venues track the carbon footprint of all meetings and events happening on their premises.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Starting venue research ? Venue contracts take weeks to finalize? Start with your major deadlines — things like venue confirmation, registration dates , and marketing campaign launches. Use it during team meetings to guide discussions and track progress. Need to order supplies? That goes in 6 weeks before.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The outdoor event destination introduces a new end-of-year festivities offering for businesses Center Parcs Conferences & Events announces the launch of its first ever end-of-year festive event package for business clients – Festive Meetings in the Forest – available at both its Woburn Forest and Sherwood Forest venues.

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EventMB

JUNE 25, 2024

Skift Take: AI-powered startup Nowadays features a virtual assistant that can communicate, negotiate and book event venues, all via email. — Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Meeting planners are responsible for the success of corporate events, conferences, and incentive programs. They are responsible for finding the perfect destination, securing a venue, managing logistics, and ensuring a seamless experience for attendees.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2025

The book is available free to download or purchase via Amazon. For Nelson, its all about starting the conversation among event planners, attendees and, most importantly, venues to rethink how we orient networking and food and beverage. What did you want to accomplish with the book? How about the role the venues play in this?

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The majestic Leeds Castle , located near Maidstone, Kent, has enhanced its meetings and events space with the addition of its Grade I listed The Gatehouse. This self-contained venue can be booked alongside conferences at the Castle or Maiden’s Tower as an evening reception or breakout space during the day.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Horsley Place is home to The Hub, which comprises of seven meeting spaces for 6 to 100 people, which can be booked individually, in groups – or all together to offer exclusive use. After being the marital home of Ada Lovelace, the property was bought by Sir Thomas Sopwith, the inventor of the Sopwith Camel aeroplane.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 22, 2025

Hotel guests will have the chance to add on transportation to and from Foxhills through Addison Lee during the booking process and will also be able to book taxis and cars from the comfort of their hotel room through the in-room tablets which have been integrated with a co-branded booking engine.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 22, 2024

Although problem solving is a part of a meeting planner’s arsenal, this can still be a pain. As in, what actions a planner should take, what they should ask and what they should expect when booking well-known names —people like Martha Stewart , Shaq, Mark Cuban and Warren Buffett—for keynotes? What Does that Mean for Planners?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Getting lost in the sea of travel booking platforms? Have an upcoming meeting in Ottawa? For meeting profs, this means more seamless access to competitive airfares, hotel accommodations and car rentalsall curated through Travelports AI-driven Content Curation Layer. Travelport and Chase are using AI to secure your attention.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Last night, {10-11} Carlton House Terrace – home of The British Academy for humanities and social sciences – officially launched three brand-new, double-height event spaces in its transformed venue. The transformation has allowed us to meet the growing demand for online and hybrid events, as well as heighten the in-person experience.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 9, 2025

London Concours is part of Thorough Events luxury Concours series and – in keeping with the upscale nature of the events this summers event marks the 9th year theyve chosen the Citys HAC as host venue. For three days, the HAC transforms into a paradise for automotive enthusiasts whose passion is matched by their experience.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2025

The nature of business meetings has undergone a significant transformation. Sign up for the monthly Behind the Bookings newsletter here Understanding the Shift in Meeting Dynamics Corporate leaders are placing greater emphasis on regular in-person interactions to bridge the gaps created by remote and hybrid work models.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

According to the latest Events Economy Tracker from The Business of Events, UK meeting venues finished 2024 strongly despite a slowdown in event bookings and revenues per delegate. Forward bookings were practically non-existent in December 2024, but again, they reached an all-time high in September.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a luxury hotel sales director, youve seen how increasingly sophisticated meeting planners are becoming in their venue selection. Takeaway Tip: Suppliers who embrace these trends and market them effectively in their RFPs, proposals, and promotional materials will stand out as trusted partners for meeting planners.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Art Deco building in Marylebone remains open for event bookings until 1 st June 2025 and the team have a pipeline of exciting events that they will be delivering over the coming months for clients including social enterprise Well Grounded and Truth Tellers.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2021

The number of meetings being scheduled now is quickly picking up steam as mask mandates are lifted and people start gathering again, but meeting formats have evolved. With Salamander Hotels & Resorts , a luxury resort management company founded by Sheila Johnson , a Smart Women in Meetings Hall of Fame winner. Ty Brassie.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Smart Meetings’ October webinar, From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices , breaks it down. As planners learn more about practical best practices and work to implement them in their meetings, before they know it, the scope and scale of sustainability don’t seem nearly so daunting.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

London Hotel Group, The Wesley, has two sustainable hotels based in Camden and Euston, that serve as the perfect location for delegates looking for a corporate event, training, conference or meeting space in Central London. Bloomsbury – An intimate meeting space with a large LED screen. This room can also be partitioned.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2025

The Nash Casino Taps UrVenue for Seamless Sports Entertainment Bookings New Hampshires largest charitable gaming venue, The Nash Casino , has partnered with tech company UrVenue to simplify how guests book everything from premium game-day seating to golf simulator bays. Our guests really wanted to experience this with us.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Read More : Today’s Best Practices for Visas and International Travel Business travel has been a key economic driver, thanks in no small part to the power of in-person meetings and events. While virtual meetings kept people connected during the pandemic, in-person engagements are proving more critical than ever.” million people).

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2022

But for meeting planners it may sound like, “New Year, New Venue!”. If meeting planners are aiming to leave attendees immersed in glamor and luxury, booking The Ritz-Carlton is always a good bet. The Ritz-Carlton caters to small or large meeting events, with a ballroom that accommodates up to 283 attendees.

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EventMB

APRIL 13, 2023

Skift Take: Meeting and event bookings in Canada are 55 percent of pre-pandemic, and the critical five-year booking window for larger gatherings is 47 percent causing major concern for cities and event venues nationwide. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Tech-Savvy Solutions Planners look for suppliers who are up-to-date with meeting technology. Highlight tools like high-speed Wi-Fi, hybrid event capabilities, or interactive displays in your venue or destination. The post 7 Things Every Meeting Planner Secretly Hopes for in a Supplier appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. Though I love my work, it was nice to reduce the number of high-intensity workdays booked in 2023!

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