Event Industry News

JANUARY 29, 2020

The O2, has enhanced its senior leadership team with the appointment of Emma Hatt as director of meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE), and Amit Pathak, as food and beverage manager. This is a prestigious hotel and brand that is known for delivering successful events. Emma Hatt, director of MICE.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 12, 2021

One hotel exec’s advice for keeping an eye on the health of a conference venue. With travel at a virtual standstill over the past year, hotel properties are going through tough times. Judy Wilbur, director of sales at Dunes Manor Hotel, Court & Suites in Ocean City, Md., Consider the hotel's core business.

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

From airport and hotel check-in, security lines and event registration will be enabled with automatic doors, mobile ticket scans and facial recognition and on-site services will continue in this fashion, from collecting information and exchanging e-business cards while networking. Shift: Touchless. Passing Trend: Hugless.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Let’s take the skill of hotel contract negotiations ; novice planners tend to feel overwhelmed by the nitty-gritty details of hotel contracts and often learn as they go. To prevent them from signing a bad contract, we’ve put together five tips to help them navigate the surprisingly complex world of hotel contracts.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2021

With Salamander Hotels & Resorts , a luxury resort management company founded by Sheila Johnson , a Smart Women in Meetings Hall of Fame winner. Rachel Frost, Director of sales and marketing, Hotel Bennett , Charleston, South Carolina. Douglas Camp , director of sales and marketing, Salamander Resort & Spa , Middleburg, VA.

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Event Farm

JUNE 9, 2021

Marcella Farman-Dietz, executive event consultant for Medialink, joined Ryan Costello, co-founder of Event Farm, to discuss a sample event budget for a one-day business summit and reception for 400 attendees at a hotel conference center in NYC. Missed Part IV of the Pandemic Compliance and Safety at Live Events panel?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

This year, hotel food and beverage departments as well as catering outlets and F&B in conference and exhibition centers struggled to catch up to post-Covid pent up demand as well as to what is now called “accommodation cuisine.” Our January 2022 feature on catering trends saw locally-sourced foods as a major player.

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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. Those expenditures must be recovered by hotels over the next couple of years, he noted. What’s In It for Event Groups?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It’s clear that our food systems will need to change — and change radically — if we are to safeguard the planet and feed a growing population. The good news is that new approaches, new partnerships, and new resolve — spurred on by the urgent threat food waste poses to the planet — are changing that. (Painting by Dennis Wojtkiewicz).

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Eventmobi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

At one time, hotels were concerned that pop-up events might compete with their offerings. They can take place on hotel property or in a function room. UK- based Sventa, known for exciting pop-up Christmas event venues and on the beach summer pop-ups, created The Cool Conference for a client. Event Technology.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 15, 2024

Tsui fills the role of director of food and beverage, bringing over two decades of experience in luxury hospitality. Wells serves as senior catering sales manager, bringing extensive experience in catering, conference services and wedding planning. Dukes is an expert in craft beer, wine and spirits and will serve as mixologist.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 26, 2023

The hospitality industry has been talking about robots augmenting hotels’ staffs for several years now, but the technology seems to have reached the point of being effective and reliable enough to handle a variety of customer-facing situations. Replacing staff probably won’t happen in areas such as conference services.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Major brands are set to debut highly-anticipated hotels in the coming year 2024 brings a wave of highly anticipated hotel openings in some of hospitality’s biggest brands. Discover the most anticipated openings throughout 2024 at Marriott , Hilton and IHG Hotels & Resorts. The 976-room hotel offers over 100,000 sq.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 1, 2020

As hotels begin to reopen now and in the near future, many hotel companies are announcing new cleaning protocols to adapt to post-pandemic hygiene standards. ” Hyatt Joins Hotel Hygiene Race—and Wants to Win. Hotels Respond to COVID-19 with New Cleaning Standard. MGM Roars with a ‘7-Point Safety Plan’.

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The MICE

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In this blog post, I’ll showcase the unique opportunities Stuttgart offers for your event, from hotels and venues to experiences, all with sustainability woven into the event planning process. Local venues prioritise: Local sourcing: Many venues source food and beverages locally. Copyright: V8 Hotel Motorworld Region Stuttgart.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 10, 2021

Hotel sales, banquet and private event managers know what it’s like to work under pressure. Olivia Isquith, Event Manager at Hotel Salem (part of the Lark Hotels group), knows this well, having worked in hotels that didn’t have a smooth system for managing event bookings and sales. Planning Pod can help.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Lopez will serve as director of food & beverage, bringing with him 21 years of experience in food and wine in the hospitality industry. He will manage all food and beverage processes and events and will establish and uphold exceptional culinary experiences for guests.

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GEVME

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Food and beverage. Food and beverages. Depending on the venue chosen for the event, the type of venue, and location, sales of food and beverages may or may not be needed. Separate sales of food and beverages are recommended, especially at large events. How to prepare an event venue.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hotels are raising rates for both leisure and group business as they are currently experiencing strong demand in many markets. As food-and-beverage costs increase for venues, those expenses are passed directly to event organizers. in group hotel rates, with a 7.8% increase in group air rates, in North America.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 14, 2022

As of July 14, 359 confirmed orthopoxvirus/monkeypox cases—a designation established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—have been identified in New York, according to a statement during New York City’s Health Department virtual press conference. Hotels Recover But Guest Satisfaction Suffers. The reason?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

As meeting professionals begin to plan events for 2023, Mike Dominguez, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI), joined Editorial Director JT Long for his annual Smart Chat Live! Dominguez noted that even though mega-conferences were absent last year, borders are now largely open and travel is back with a vengeance.

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Event Industry News

JULY 2, 2019

The hospitality and event sector has to transform its thinking about food and beverage (F&B) to adapt to the way the latest generation fit eating and drinking into their lives. Street/festival-style food works well for them. by Louisa Watson, director of marketing, Wyboston Lakes Resort.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 13, 2024

While we often meticulously plan the culinary experiences at our events, beverages, particularly wine, are frequently chosen from a generic banquet menu. Having some basic knowledge about wine can also help in having meaningful conversations with your convention services manager or beverage director when planning your event.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 6, 2019

Delegates at the Australian Marine Sciences Association conference take a plastic-free coffee break. After creating a near plastic-free annual conference , the Australian Marine Sciences Association and event management organization Encanta created a tip sheet for other groups hoping to reduce the use of plastics at their meetings.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When we built Planning Pod, we set out to solve a big problem that many event venues, restaurants and hotels face … juggling too many applications, emails, documents, spreadsheets and even notes, folders and whiteboards to manage their event bookings. Or to add updated food-and-beverage items to both an invoice and a BEO.

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

Events and gatherings happen in all sizes, at all kinds of social and commercial environments — whether it is a Christmas party, a large scale conference or a business event. This component includes everything – right from hotels, motels, hostels or any other setup which can provide sleeping rooms to the attendees. Accommodation.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In addition, the model does not include the additive risks for travel to and from an event, and staying in a hotel during an event. 2—Additive risks for travel to and from an event, and staying in a hotel during an event. appeared first on Conferences That Work. The main concern is air travel. No related posts.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2019

However, leaving audio visual (AV) equipment services to the end could be a costly mistake, especially when negotiating these services with a hotel. Many hotel contracts mandate use of an in-house AV provider and contain clauses prohibiting use of other vendors or charge for the privilege of using the planner’s preferred vendor.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 14, 2018

As a professional academic association, our business model is conferences and within those conferences, opportunities to bring global scholars together. As a result, academic associations tend to plod along in the same routine for as long as conference attendance remains steady. Jennifer Fontanella.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 23, 2020

The De Vere East Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC) on the University Park campus at the University of Nottingham has announced a major refurbishment to begin at the end of January. More than £2million is being invested to reinvigorate the award-winning conference facility which will be unveiled at the end of Spring 2020.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Read More: How hotels are supporting wellness goals. Focusing resources on four primary areas—food, break sessions, the setting and culture—is the most efficient way to harness a health program that boosts attentiveness at your events. Screen-free zones have become popular at conferences. Create a Relaxing Off-Grid Zone.

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Eventmobi

JUNE 13, 2019

Ask businesses to sponsor the entire event – providing the venue, food, and A/V equipment, or just one element. Ask a customer if they can provide a venue or an extra piece of swag for that conference goody bag. There’s no way you can afford the speaker fee, let alone their flight and hotel. Pay for the food – not the catering.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

So, if they decided that they weren’t comfortable in the meeting space, they could sit up in their hotel room and watch the livestream,” Morrison said, adding that about 25 percent of their virtual attendees actually stayed on site. In total, the summit hosted 93 total attendees, with about half of those tuning in virtually. Receptions.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Timely responses from hotels? These issues and others are addressed in an industry outlook from Knowland and Conference Direct. Furthermore, “gone are the days of [automatically] free meeting space based on guest rooms or a food-and-beverage guarantee,” the report notes. Steeper F&B and AV costs? Absolutely.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 30, 2020

Participants focused on safety and cleanliness considerations for event venues, transportation modes, hotels and meeting spaces. Measures will need to be taken at each step—airline, transfer, hotel and meeting space. In the next FICP Chats, our community will focus on meeting and food & beverage operations and logistics.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 29, 2019

The International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham and its in-house caterer, Amadeus, are utilising cutting-edge AI technology to reduce food waste at the venue by a third. Working with Winnow Solutions, they have now installed software that monitors both the type and amount of food being disposed of. Conferences.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 24, 2019

According to a Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) survey, 36% of all expenses are for food and beverages (F&B) alone. Food & Beverage @ $35/person. Concession (food and beverage and merchandise sales). Vendor commissions (hotels). Number of People. Venue Rental.

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