SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Editor’s Note : Created in 2019, San Diego State University’s Meeting & Event Management Master’s Program was created in partnership between Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and San Diego State University’s L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. Deanna Roberts.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The meetings industry is facing the potential of a winter Covid surge due to the Omicron variant. But the shaky state of the pandemic’s retirement is hardly a reason for business travel and tourism to return to lockdown. The post Omicron Update: Findings, Cancellations and Mandates appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 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.

Food and Beverage 98

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

In terms of jobs, the meetings and events industry creates more direct jobs than large manufacturing sectors such as automotive, chemicals, and food. Adam Sacks, founder and president of Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics company, said in a press briefing on Feb. in benefits to the U.S. It’s a 160-percent return on investment.”.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 10, 2022

Planners and hoteliers weigh in on how to protect meetings from the labor crisis. In the meeting industry, the phrase “It’s a relationship business” is often bandied about. We now proactively look at service-related clauses to include in our contracts. More than Ever, Communication is the Key. Grimes, Esq.,

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 25, 2019

The organization also developed a systematic way for organizations to get involved, creating the ECPAT-USA Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct, known as The Code, a voluntary set of principles that businesses agree to adopt, which includes training employees in how to recognize and report suspected cases. That’s huge.”.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 10, 2023

Among the hotels affected by the latest strike are the 803-room Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles, with 56,834 square feet of meeting space, and the 747-room Westin Los Angeles Airport, with 56,170 square feet of meeting space. For meeting professionals, striking hotel workers present at least two significant challenges.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2022

Some destinations rise to the top of meeting bucket lists because of their history. Smart Meetings brought top meeting professionals to The Galt House the same week Berkshire Hathaway hosted 5,000 real estate professionals at 300,000-square-foot Kentucky International Convention Center. Marin Bright, Smart Meetings CEO.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2022

Some destinations rise to the top of meeting bucket lists because of their history. Smart Meetings brought top meeting professionals to The Galt House the same week Berkshire Hathaway hosted 5,000 real estate professionals at 300,000-square-foot Kentucky International Convention Center. Marin Bright, Smart Meetings CEO.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 29, 2021

Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management , says top executives from major brands are calling him to personally interview college students because they are desperate for employees to clean rooms and check people in. “If Ross predicts that by August the number of people meeting will look as if Covid never happened.

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Event Industry News

JULY 23, 2020

New contracts with Download Festival for VIP Nation and Glastonbury with Winding Lake Farm were also recently added to Cabooses’ seasonal list of deployments. Our Cabooses offer year-round accommodation to organisers and their guests.

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Event Leadership Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One of the learning outcomes was for students to learn the importance of reading a contract. So, I decided to create an experiential learning activity where my students had the opportunity to experience first hand why reading a contract was important. Cell phone contracts. Cell phone contracts.

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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. But the question is does it deter people from coming to meetings,” he asked.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Want to stay ahead of the curve when selecting a destination for your next meeting? Marriott has just teamed up with Postcard Cabins to change the game when it comes to meetings in the great outdoors. Wish your attendees could just levitate from the airport to the meeting?

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Registration forecasting for 2023 was the top challenge identified by Louisville Tourism’s Client Advisory Council members. These factors raise additional questions: Who is coming to our digital vs. in-person meetings? We also have Gen Z, the first generation to have grown up entirely in the digital era, entering the workforce.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The IMEX-EIC award was created to give recognition to a meeting, incentive, convention or exhibition program stakeholder team that is driving forward sustainability. The post Large Convention Centers Upgrade to Cut Energy Waste, Shrink Meeting Footprint appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

More Conference News: Photo Tour: 10 Steal-worthy Tactics from the INBOUND 2023 Conference Five Reasons Why Figma’s Config User Conference Has Grown 750% in Five Years EVENT MARKETER: WHAT ARE THE TOP ADVANTAGES TO HOSTING A MEETING OR CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO RIGHT NOW? Many organizations use their annual meeting as a fundraiser also.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2021

Shelley Hodgkinson, senior director-event solutions at Walmart, described the “new budget” her team is preparing to build in EM’s webinar, Mastering Event Contracts in the Post-COVID Era. “As As people start to work through it, they’ll look at things differently, and look at things they’ve never looked at before,” she said.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

He brings experience in religious, fraternal and ethnic meetings segments to drive new conventions and meetings to Cincinnati and establish it as a top national meetings destination. In this role, she will personally oversee high-profile bookings from contract to completion.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Read More : Stratospheric Incentives: The Future of Tourism. Cassidy reported that financial and insurance companies were the first to see the value, but others have contracted as well when they saw how simple the program was to use. The post Out of This World Gifting appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Eventinterface

AUGUST 15, 2016

Mia Monroe is an award-winning certified special event, meeting and government meeting professional, speaker, author of trade articles and the conference and event manager for NASA Johnson Space Center’s Human Health and Institutional Management contract for Florida-based AllPoints, LLC.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 2, 2018

billion for all manner of fees and surcharges, according to Bjorn Hanson of New York University Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism. Does this mean meeting planners, or their attendees, are stuck paying them? The post You Can Negotiate Away Annoying Hotel Fees appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

Title : Group Vice President of Diversity Sales and Inclusion, Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau and Chairman of National Coalition of Black Meeting Professionals (NCBMP). When I first heard about it, I was at an NCBMP board meeting, planning the annual conference that subsequently went virtual in November.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 22, 2022

Read More: Meeting Safety Trends in 2022. Certain cellular contracts keep your phone locked to your home country’s SIM, but there are plenty of mobile hotspot devices you can find that will give you a secure network anywhere you go. Buy a Local SIM Card. Buying a local SIM card is different wherever you travel. Download a VPN App.

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The MICE

AUGUST 17, 2020

‘My vision was to change tourism’. ‘I When I was living with my family in the Canary Islands, where I grew up, my father was a managing director of a hospitality company, so my dream was to set up the tourism company of the future. My vision was to change tourism. My vision was to change tourism.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Planners with upcoming meetings in Southern California should watch developments there closely in the next few days or weeks. 6, 7,500 employees at 24 hotels across several hotel companies in Los Angeles and Orange counties voted to strike if a new contract was not ratified by yesterday. The post Action!

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 1, 2020

As with meeting professionals all over the world, the go-, no-go decision was complicated. Herrera is also moving ahead with plans for VenueConnect2020, an annual meeting for more than 2,000 people in Long Beach, California, in August. The Surgeon General told us to stop buying face masks unless we have contracted the virus.

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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. Business travel demand is also strong, due in part to the need for r emote workers to fly to meet with coworkers and clients.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sustainable tourism is vital. That’s the principle that guided Tourisme Montréal’s proactive sustainability strategy, one that helped it maintain its first place in North America on the 2023 Global Destination Sustainability Index. The post How to host sustainable events — in Montréal and beyond appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

Along with expertise in corporate travel events and hotel contracting, he brings a passion for community service. He is an active community member, having served as president and board member of the Sonoma Valley Chamber of Commerce and board chair for Sonoma County Tourism during his former role.

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GEVME

JULY 16, 2019

Thus, a niche events meaning is related to a narrow circle of events targeted at a single event segment at a time (meetings, weddings, corporate, tourism, etc.). When you promise to buy something and someone else promises to sell it to you, you may have just made a verbal contract. . Niche events meaning.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 12, 2024

The wait is almost over – The Meetings Show 2024 kicks off at ExCeL London next week, and final preparations are in full swing for what promises to be THE must-attend event for #eventprofs this summer. Other meetings industry professionals are welcome to attend by purchasing a non-buyer visitor ticket.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. J: Marketing.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2016

More than ever, meeting planners are under pressure to deliver forward-thinking content while keeping a close eye on the bottom line. DMOs can act as a resource throughout the planning process, but especially before any contracts have been signed. says Rachael Riggs of Tourism Vancouver.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 20, 2023

A surge in violent crime has event professionals making safety and security in meeting destinations a priority. The city is celebrated as a music capital, so Visit Seattle contracted with a local company to hire street musicians to perform on routes that conference attendees would travel. We wanted to help with that,” she said. “We

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 14, 2017

First a look at the numbers, taken from a decade’s worth of data gathered in Convene ‘s Meetings Market Survey: The average room pickup in 2007 was 6,009 — in 2016 it was 3,449. Trade shows had more rooms booked outside the block vs. meetings. Shorter events had a higher share of rooms booked outside the block.

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