Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 16, 2021

But the shaky state of the pandemic’s retirement is hardly a reason for business travel and tourism to return to lockdown. Vaccines are still believed to be “considerably protective” against the most severe Covid symptoms, such as hospitalization and death; but vaccines are less successful in protecting against Omicron contraction.

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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.

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Eventinterface

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

David Dodwell, Chairman of the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA), confirmed the appointment of Bermudian, Kevin Dallas to the post of Chief Executive Officer for the Bermuda Tourism Authority. Mr. Dallas is set to officially occupy the post in January 2017 once current CEO, Bill Hanbury completes his contract on December 31, 2016.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 10, 2023

According to the union, of the 60 properties in Southern California whose contracts expired at the end of June, only the Westin Bonaventure has reached an agreement with workers for higher wages and better working conditions. In those cases, a well-written force majeure clause might allow the group to cancel their contract without penalty.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 10, 2022

We now proactively look at service-related clauses to include in our contracts. She says that planners simply have to drill down more during the contracting process. Ask about staffing in each area and then include service clauses in the contract. But now we have to make sure the amenities we need are available.”. Grimes, Esq.,

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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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Gallus Events

JANUARY 16, 2022

Over tourism (and events has a major role to play in that) causes significant problems for popular destinations. Tourism is impacting the locals. Many of whom are on zero-hour contracts, doing low-paid, physically demanding work. A city like Barcelona is struggling to balance an almost insatiable demand from the events industry.

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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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Start Early The first tip is to book early and contract early! Italy does not have a lot of large hotels so if your program requires a peak of more than 100 rooms on a five-star category I suggest anticipating as much as you can the hotel sourcing and contracting, especially if you travel on shoulder and peak seasons.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2022

We have fun, but also get business done,” explained Cleo Battle, president and CEO of Louisville Tourism. The city hosted 881 meetings and conventions in 2019. It brings 150,000 to town for The Run for the Roses, the Kentucky Derby. “We Marin Bright, Smart Meetings CEO. This is a great time to think about models,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The first week of November, the union announced that it had agreed to contracts in Oakland, California and Detroit, but 7,000 employees were still on strike at Marriott properties in California, Hawaii and Boston. Additionally, in Oakland, California, minimum wage amendment Measure Z passed with 74 percent approval.

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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. Others are eliminating amenities such as daily housekeeping and room service. Building Back Better.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2022

We have fun, but also get business done,” explained Cleo Battle, president and CEO of Louisville Tourism. The city hosted 881 meetings and conventions in 2019. It brings 150,000 to town for The Run for the Roses, the Kentucky Derby. “We Marin Bright, Smart Meetings CEO. This is a great time to think about models,” he said.

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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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Event Marketer

APRIL 22, 2024

To appeal to Gen Z, the brand has developed a real-deal contract position that centers on crafting compelling social media content and getting one’s boots dirty. Think: Capturing the grounds crew prepping turf at an MLB stadium or sharing a POV on maintaining roads at a national park.)

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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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SmartMeetings

JUNE 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. Others are eliminating amenities such as daily housekeeping and room service. Building Back Better.

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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. Another benefit to communicating registration data with CVBs, Louisville Tourism’s Doug Bennett said, is that they can assist planners in determining the value of their event.

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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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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. My event management company was hit hard, and I was hindered after having contracted COVID-19 myself (it’s no joke—take it from a long-hauler still feeling the effects a year later). Deanna Roberts. That challenge, of course, became painfully obvious.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Dubai Marks Progress in Tourism, Events and Sustainability in 2024 With nearly 15 million overnight visitors as of October 2024, Dubai has hit its stride as a top international destination for tourism, meetings and events. Read on for the latest in travel news, brought to you by Smart Travel.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Moscone Center is offering a 25-percent discount off of rentals, and San Francisco Tourism Improvement District’s one-fourth-percent increase takes place in 2024, which will offer additional discounts to Moscone Center rentals. Finally, we have great deals for those that are signing multiyear contracts at one time.

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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. We want destinations that will be beautiful and attractive today — and also in 100 years.

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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. Even if a hotel has no resort or urban fees currently, I would put it in writing in the contract, so that there is no potential issue in the future. Last year, the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Jamaica Tourist Board Director of Tourism Donovan White shared his optimism about the outlook for the meetings industry in the country at a press conference and announced, new airline service from key markets. IMEX2022 #island #Tourism #meetsmart pic.twitter.com/2BlWbAhy0D. #IMEX22 #meetsmart #PuertoRico pic.twitter.com/L4PqkxAIWV.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. Although a strike has not officially begun, and contract negotiations are continuing, news reports indicate picketing is already underway at four hotels.

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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. . It is also traditionally a small market segment.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 22, 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. Check out this comprehensive guide on where to find mobile data in the most popular countries for tourism. Download a VPN App.

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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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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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The Castle Group

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The tourism industry is continuing to offer promotions, incentive deals, and innovative options to work from scenic locations and revamp your workweek. Studies have shown that while contracting COVID on airplanes is a fairly low risk due to advanced air circulation systems, this is not reflective of the time spent in the airport.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 1, 2020

Dominguez acknowledged that, often, meeting planners often have no choice but to pull the plug as they are tasked with undoing years of contracts in a day. The Surgeon General told us to stop buying face masks unless we have contracted the virus. Reactions to contracting COVID-19 have varied from no symptoms at all to death.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2016

DMOs can act as a resource throughout the planning process, but especially before any contracts have been signed. says Rachael Riggs of Tourism Vancouver. Reach out to the destinations you’re considering in advance. The first thing you need to ask is, ‘What’s new, what’s happening?’”

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

Adam Sacks, founder and president of Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics company, said in a press briefing on Feb. Shimasaki also took note of how Oxford Economics quantified the total room demand of meetings of 300 million room nights, “which includes both the contracted room block and rooms booked outside the organizer’s room block.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Mariya Baker, CMP Mariya Baker, CMP As director of sales in the convention department at Louisville Tourism , Baker will oversee a team of sales directors and managers, will work to grow trade, business and commercial markets and will maintain TBC legacy accounts.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

In 2010, CEIR commissioned Tourism Economics to conduct a study to gauge how much money the U.S. Because contracts are signed so far in advance, we’re not going to see the impact immediately,” Breden told Convene. Exhibitors have already signed contracts, and people have made their travel arrangements. exhibitions.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our interactions are bigger than booths and contracts. Tourism changes views. It took months to get there, but in December we decided we had to do the responsible thing. Our organization is run by volunteers; it is a family. It is not transactional for us. Deals are based on friendships. So, moving to virtual was not natural.

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