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Best of 2024: Sustainability

Smart Meetings

The world of sustainable events is bigger than ever. As more planners and partners in hospitality and tourism incorporate sustainability into their business models, it becomes a need-to-have, rather than a nice-to-have. Sustainability Tools for Easier Green Planning Planning sustainable events isnt a small task.

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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

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.

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The 2024 Guide for Financial and Insurance Meetings

Smart Meetings

Experts offer tips and ideas for meeting professionals As the year slowly comes to a close, many financial and insurance meeting planners may be thinking about what they should be keeping on their radar. Squeglia, CMP, Independent Contractor at RLC Events, to get the inside scoop. It’s busy and I think people are roaring back.

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FICP Annual Elevated Conversation Around Meaning

Smart Meetings

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. That makes accommodating their needs in the workplace and at events a business opportunity rather than a compliance problem. The stakes are high, and rules must be followed.

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Pre-Spring Budget: beam urges government to support growth in the UK’s business events, accommodation and meetings industry

Prestige Events Magazine

The business events, accommodation and meetings industry contributes more than 61 billion to the UK economy each year, yet it remains particularly vulnerable to inflationary pressures, talent shortages and inconsistent government support. The right policies can unlock growth, investment and global competitiveness.

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Booked and Busy: The Best Event Planning Reads You’ll Actually Use

Smart Meetings

With that in mind, I decided to search Amazon for event planning and management books with at least 100 reviews and a rating of 4 stars or higher. If youve ever done a similar search and felt a bit overwhelmed by all the choices, heres a list of the top six event planning books on Amazon with more than 125 reviews and ratings of at least 4.2

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Events Industry Council Recognizes 2024 FICP Annual Conference for Achieving Sustainable Event Standards Certification

Event Industry News

The Events Industry Council announced today that the 2024 FICP Annual Conference, hosted by the Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) in Denver from November 10-13, achieved silver level certification to the EIC Sustainable Event Standards.

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