Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The city’s challenges related to homelessness, crime and drugs are part of a combination of factors that are impacting the city’s event business, with a number of big tech conferences announcing historic moves out of the city and to Las Vegas. Finally, we have great deals for those that are signing multiyear contracts at one time.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

From minimum wage increases to hotel taxes and subsidies for new conference properties, voters in mid-term elections on Tuesday were asked to weigh in on a number of issues that could affect where you hold your meetings and how much they will cost. Voters in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, renewed a 2 percent hotel occupancy tax.

Tourism 225

Tourism Hotels Travel 2010 225

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Events Industry Council (EIC) in partnership with its global EIC Equity Task Force, released the results of its 2022 Equity Benchmarking Study at an IMEX press conference. At this new conference center, there are no restaurants, says Director of Group Sales Louis Gonzales. “It DEI Task Force Marks Starting Point for Improvements.

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2022 Airlines Hotels Tourism 293

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

This is an e ngineered recession, a recession by design,” said Christian Savelli, director of tourism economics with Oxford Economics, speaking at IACC Americas Knowledge Exchange this week in Durham, North Carolina. Conferences are enjoying a return to participation even if the mega events are smaller.

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Eventinterface

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This and more in our latest news update for Meeting and Conference Planners. Analyzing the Conference Behaviors of Fortune 1000 Executives. A recent study analyzes and predicts the behaviors of executives and why they attend, sponsor or exhibit at conferences and conventions. IMEX 2016 America Breaking Records Once Again.

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Conference Meetings 2016 Tourism 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

He previously worked for Visit Cincy as national manager of diversity sales, during which time he booked numerous large conferences and conventions. In this role, she will personally oversee high-profile bookings from contract to completion. He comes most recently from his role as general manager at the Residence Inn Anaheim Garden.

Hospitality 242

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jeff Robinson, director of marketing with Visit Indy and Santiago Corrada, president and CEO of Visit Tampa Bay , joined Mayaan Ziv, CEO of AccessNow , at the same conference to share tips for meeting professionals looking for information about accessibility before sourcing a destination.

Travel 264

Travel Tourism Advertising 2022 264

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Tourism Hotels Food and Beverage 130

Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

It’s easy to see how our purpose-built conference centre has benefited our local area. It’s construction alone resulted in 250-300 jobs across 22 South Wales firms, equating to contracts worth £22 million, and since opening its doors in 2019, the venue has confirmed events worth £161m to the visitor economy up until 2028.

2028 130

2028 Tourism Sustainability Meetings 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality Hotels Tourism Food and Beverage 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. She will oversee contracting for group room blocks and events and work on new client acquisition in local and international markets.

Tourism 130

Tourism Hospitality Food and Beverage Hotels 130

Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s split across four key themes: INFORM – INSPIRE – INNOVATE – IMPACT, with a stellar line up of expert speakers covering topics including event security, AI, inclusivity, wellness, experiential design, contract negotiation, sustainability and legacy.

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2024 Meetings Sustainability Education 147