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Lime Venue Portfolio is delighted to announce that Jo Austin, currently serving as Sales Director, has taken on an additional leadership role as the new Conference & Events Sustainability Lead for Compass Group UK&I. It’s massively important to our member venues, their owners, their customers, and their delegates.
Mandy Jennings, CEO and Owner of Venues of Excellence reflects on 2024 and the power of the sales and marketing consortium for independent venues. As 2024 draws to a close, Mandy Jennings, CEO, reflects on the incredible progress and achievements of the past 12 months for the consortium and its member venues.
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Lime Venue Portfolio is set to unveil the second installment of its ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Event Planning Guide series. The guides, released over 12 months, address each element of ESG, offering practical frameworks for member venues and event organisers.
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The Great Yorkshire Events Centre has appointed Manchester-based consultancy Catch the MICE as their UK Representation as part of its ambitious strategy to showcase and grow its meetings, incentives, conferences, and events (MICE) offering. Were thrilled to have Catch the MICE on board to help us take this prestigious venue to new markets.
With major investments revitalising the city, Doncaster is becoming a destination of choice for forward-thinking enterprises, including artificial intelligence (AI) companies seeking a dynamic and well-connected base on track to become one of the UK Governments AI Growth Zones. We look forward to being a part of this exciting new chapter.
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Both venues complied to the latest Government guidelines. Rachel Macaulay, head of conferences and events at Vue said “This event showed how a cinema setting amplifies hybrid events and takes them to the next level.
of historic and modern conference center space offered something for attendees and their guests while they were meeting. Instead of being governed by our preconceptions, we need to be open to the realities of others, he advised. From the cottages to the villas, all 703 guest rooms were renovated. Evans proposed focusing on perception.
Her previous posts include Asset Manager for L+R Hotels, whose venues include Chewton Glen, Cliveden House and Fairmont Monte Carlo, and Group Commercial Director for Ralph Trustees Ltd, whose hotels include Londons Athenaeum and The Grove in Hertfordshire. joint venture between Celtic Manor and Welsh Government.
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In fact, a new events industry initiative, “ Net Zero Carbon Events ,” developed in November 2021 at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland is serving as a rallying cry for change. VENUE PERSPECTIVES. Globally, Hilton hospitality brand is helping travelers plan more sustainable trips.
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IACC has today launched its ‘Critical Pathway to Re-opening’ guide, which shares in-depth strategies and advice on how to reopen venues safely, created specifically for venues hosting meetings, training courses and smaller conferences for up to 150 delegates.
Confirmed brands attending the in-person world’s largest tech conference include Amazon, AT&T, Dell and Google. The 20th annual Tribeca Film Festival will offer a variety of outdoor events and installations, along with timed and ticketed indoor experiences at venues across New York City. Read more here. Read more here.
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The platform is used primarily by colleges and universities, as well as non-profit organizations and conference planners. Event Guru Software is a secure, cloud-based service designed to grow with venues and campuses that need to streamline their operations. .”
Breaking down the company’s recent sustainability strategy International exhibition and convention center ExCel London is a carbon-neutral venue and an advocate for the path towards green meetings. soon to debut over 25,000 more—and hosting around 400 events and 4 million visitors per year, it is the largest event venue in London.
Award winning consortium Venues of Excellence has just launched its ‘Confidence in Us’ campaign to underpin their venues commitment to deliver safe events as the UK opens up to ‘business as usual’ for meetings and events. Our venues continue to offer flexibility with their contracts and terms of business. Read more here.
Working with the Music Venue Trust (MVT) and approved for trial by the DCMS, start-up company You Check will test its new health passport with live audiences as a means to safely reopen UK music venues. According to MVT research more than 400 grassroots music venues are at imminent risk of being closed permanently.
ASH collaborated with government agencies, airlines, venues and partners to advance medical science based on robust data When the goal is to produce the 66 th anniversary of the premier event in classical and malignant hematology, then doing whatever it takes to get the best in the world to the general session is job one.
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The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a rule allowing it to take scammers to court—including those who fraudulently use conference names, logos, and mailing lists—and seek financial penalties. Advocacy works!” The anti-impersonation rule will be effective 30 days after it is published in the federal register.
This is achieved through a combination of Policy, Advocacy, Content and Engagement, bringing together senior leaders from across the business events sector to discuss policy ideas and initiatives and to connect with government, policy makers and influencers, public sector organisations and politicians.
Heather Mason, CEO of Caspian Agency , says this can be gleaned from the way the government looks at those in the meetings industry. Usually grouped in the broad category of “hospitality,” which can include anything from small weddings to large-scale conferences, can affect meeting profs in the form of legislation that gets passed.
Further details have been revealed about Ricoh Arena’s plans to enhance its conferencing and exhibition facilities ahead of the Commonwealth Games after receiving multi-million-pound Government funding. The estimated £5.3
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Venue and governmental regulations keep changing. 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. Onsite testing is another variable.
and indoor and outdoor venues will return to full capacity, although mask mandates for public transport and shops remains in place until February. Upon a recommendation from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the Norwegian government is removing current requirements for travel quarantine during Covid-19.
The General Assembly is INTERPOL’s highest governing body and the largest global gathering of senior law enforcement officials and heads of ministries. Having been the proud host venue for COP26, being selected as the UK venue for this event cements our reputation as the natural home for world events of scale and complexity.
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