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Eastside Rooms survey highlights importance of financial travel incentives to PCOs

Prestige Events Magazine

A recent survey conducted by The Eastside Rooms clearly shows that travel-based financial incentives play a significant role in international and domestic destination selection for PCOs. When asked if “ travel-based financial incentives from destinations impact choice of destination?”:

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LA Fires Update: What Meeting Profs Need to Know

Smart Meetings

How to Help MICE Colleagues With the full extent of damage from the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires still being evaluated, many in the meetings and events industry are stepping up to find meaningful ways to support those impacted. 20-23) The Society of Thoracic Surgeons STS Annual Meeting (Jan. 24-26) TheFitExpo Los Angeles 2025 (Jan.

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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle

Event Marketer

Strehle followed a path into events right away, landing her first job on a strategic events team at Principal Financial Group focused on experiences and event logistics for clients at the end of the sales cycle. The post B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle appeared first on Event Marketer. After studying p.r.,

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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. They want to feel as though they have a role in choosing their own meetings journey.

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Download 7 Exceptional Event Email Templates for Driving Attendee Engagement

Four of the Big 4 firms, 15 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, and 300+ leading technology, financial and professional services companies use SpotMe to host virtual events, webinars, and hybrid meetings with apps, video, attendee engagement and analytics. Download the eBook today!

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Reducing No-Shows at Free Events: A Bold Approach

Conferences that Work

Having registrants not show up has become a big problem for the meeting industry, especially for free events. For event conveners, this is at best dispiriting and at worst financially disastrous. Could no-show fees work for the meeting industry? Have you tried or experienced no-show fees at a meeting? Your thoughts?

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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. To meet these evolving challenges, a record number gathered at the reimagined Sheraton Denver Downtown for the 2024 FICP Annual Conference this week.

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