Contracts Meetings Sustainability 
GEVME
JANUARY 27, 2020
While people love spending their time in such places, the organizers do not really place sustainability as the anchor of organizing such events. The concept of sustainability has been around for a long time but now it has become the need of the hour so that each one of us can do our bit in making an impact on the environment.
Velvet Chainsaw
MARCH 15, 2023
Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. Event planners are experiencing sticker shock from rising costs for audiovisual, food and beverage, and other direct meeting expenses.
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PCMA Convene
MARCH 27, 2024
For a sense of how the business events industry is — or isn’t — embracing sustainability, let’s take a look at three different surveys. Only 17 percent of 340 organizers, who plan corporate, nonprofit, academic, and other kinds of event, said they are featuring sustainability in their program content.
Attendease
JANUARY 21, 2021
When we emerge from our government-imposed cocoons, we are less likely to find participants content with trends that meet pop culture standards but rather will shift and seek those that tie into the deeper values they have put to the test over this past year. Sustainability is not a buzzword and climate change is real.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Becoming a sustainable event planner is a marathon, not a sprint. As the events industry continues to evolve in its sustainability journey, there are a lot of accomplishments to celebrate. But there’s no denying that sustainability is a very broad topic, and sometimes, you might feel left in the dust.
Smart Meetings
JUNE 27, 2023
But entering a new relationship with a hotel usually comes with a detailed contract of agreements and stipulations. Smart Meetings chatted with Cheryl M. year period of time have shifted into the future years causing a significant demand and compression issue when contracting with hotels,” Payne said.
SmartMeetings
JULY 31, 2020
Meeting professionals are looking for guidance. Smart Meetings’ State of the Meetings Industry monthly confidence survey from June found planners looking at a glass that was most decidedly less than half full. Others focused on how much meeting professionals are learning about alternative ways to reach their goals now.
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