Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Virginia Beach’s agricultural industry tells a story beyond economics Every morning David Trimmer wakes up thinking about the viability, sustainability and growth of the agricultural industry in Virginia Beach. He recounted last April when he visited a farm and had a meal where all the food was local. We all play a part in that.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2022

Visit Greater Palm Springs in Rancho Mirage, California, appointed Bruggemans director of sustainability and community engagement. Over the last 17 years, she has garnered experience in hospitality, event, food and beverage, and business management. Louisville Tourism in Kentucky welcomed Runyon as destination services manager.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

On the sustainability journey, it’s essential to ask questions along the way. As a result, venuedirectoy.com now offers a total of 2,629 global green accredited venues and 1,755 nationally, cementing its position as the UK’s largest database of sustainable venues. This is where sustainability accreditations can play a significant role.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 23, 2024

All presentations were focused on new and inventive ideas that would attract meeting professionals and attendees to ideas centered around trends such as sustainability, food and beverage diversity, networking and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The post Lessons Learned at IACC 2024 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2024

Throughout his years in the industry, he has worked across many departments including front desk, housekeeping, food & beverage, accounting and more, and has established a reputation for collaborative work budget creation, improving service scores and building strong cultures.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2024

Sustainable Luxury Sustainability is a topic constantly at the center of meetings and events industry conversation and it’s evolving as more than a trend to become a revolution of eco-friendly awareness in business standards of practice.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2022

Serendipity 3 at The District Food Court in Oceans Casino and Resort. Read More : Sustainability, Regenerative Tourism and Getting Back to Business in Atlantic City. What’s most evolving here, though, is the infusion of over $85 million in property developments in the guest rooms and food and beverage offerings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Herbert, founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Black Meetings and Tourism; Harvey Grotsky, president, CEO, publisher and editor-in-chief of Coastal Communications; and the late Marin June Bright, CEO of Bright Business Media, publisher of Smart Meetings. Meeting industry journalists and publishers received certificates of appreciation.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

www.thedillylondon.com/sustainability. Newly independent West End London hotel, The Dilly, has just been presented with the international Green Key award – the leading standard for excellence in the field of environmental responsibility and sustainable operation within the tourism industry.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Encore Global hosted “Break Free, a journey of transformation” which invited guests to take part in an interactive survey focused on the sustainability efforts at IMEX while touching all the senses in a dramatic LED-enhanced space. IMEX2022 #island #Tourism #meetsmart pic.twitter.com/2BlWbAhy0D.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

Another bonus is that accommodation, meeting space, AV needs, food and beverage are all included in a quote, reducing planning time while still providing a fully curated luxury experience. Multiple ports of call take travelers to several destinations in one go—a bit of a bang-for-your-buck mentality.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2023

The Centre is committed to making a positive impact through initiatives such as its Food and Beverage Program , focused on sourcing local and donating leftover items. Exhibition Place is a leading green venue and has been ranked in numerous awards and accolades for its sustainability efforts.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 27, 2022

They include developing essential skills in general management and leadership, human resources, finance, revenue management, security and risk, marketing, sales, front-of-house, housekeeping, as well as culinary and food and beverage service.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 5, 2022

Meet with Momentum Boston, the second installment of a new event series by Marriott that began this June, continued the brand’s mission to educate meeting and event planners in its redevelopment projects—from convention resorts to spaces to food and beverage—and to empower planners amid a booming return to meetings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Changing the culture throughout the hotel has been a key priority and we have spent a great deal of time over the years working on the business’s values, brand and strategy; building on our passionate people, excellent service, innovation and sustainability.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Jayden Klinac, founder of For The Better Good, a New-Zealand-based sustainability company, speaks to the 140 attendees at a Feb. Tourism New Zealand committed to planting a native tree in New Zealand for each attendee. The sustainability focused AIME Hosted Buyer Breakfast on Feb. 17 AIME Hosted Buyer Breakfast in Melbourne.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 9, 2023

While we seem to have mastered incorporating sustainable solutions in our day-to-day lives, we sometimes drop the ball when we travel. Sustainable tourism is becoming popular. Travel sites are now incorporating sustainable travel in their packages. We all want to make the world a better place. Well most of us anyways.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2023

The Centre is committed to making a positive impact through initiatives such as its Food and Beverage Program , focused on sourcing local and donating leftover items. Exhibition Place is a leading green venue and has been ranked in numerous awards and accolades for its sustainability efforts.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 8, 2022

OVG360 , Oak View Group’s sustainability-focused venue management division, named O’Dell president of venue management. Bringing 30 years of hotel and food and beverage management, Roy most recently served as Hilton Boston Logan Airport’s general manager. Greg O’Dell. Previously, O’Dell was president and CEO of Events DC.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2023

Getting Pa’ina by Ocean off the ground required the young son to venture around the island to the various vendors that typically supplied local hotels and started assembling community agricultural boxes in the form of meal kits and to sell them throughout the community at a reasonable rate to help sustain local vendors.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Encore Global hosted “Break Free, a journey of transformation” which invited guests to take part in an interactive survey focused on the sustainability efforts at IMEX while touching all the senses in a dramatic LED-enhanced space. IMEX2022 #island #Tourism #meetsmart pic.twitter.com/2BlWbAhy0D.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The protocols focus on best practices for four specific areas: transmission barriers, enhanced sanitization, health screenings, and food and beverage. “We Questions fall into the categories of business strategy, attendee expectations, communications, health and safety, technology, and sustainability and social impact.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Earlier this year, the World Food Travel Association published a list of the top 10 predictions for the food tourism industry in 2020, drawn partly from changes brought on by COVID-19. Delving into the roots of the foods that we eat in the U.S. can bring up parts of our history that are messy and uncomfortable.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 12, 2020

From supporting local businesses to sanitation procedures and food and beverage options, the webinar discussed re-opening procedures and how professionals can come together to create a new, post-COVID-19 playbook. Tourism took a sudden, grueling hit in March. Food and Beverage. Local and Sustainable.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 2, 2022

Attendees can see where their food comes from “when they walk in the door” of Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. In 2021, Visit Sweden followed up its tourism programs Edible Country and Drinkable Country with the Taste of Swedish Summer campaign that highlights 22 natural ingredients that can be foraged in Sweden during the summer.

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All Seated

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Wondering how to make your meeting and event venues more sustainable? In this article, we dive into the topic and share 5 tips for making your meeting and event venue more sustainable. Sustainability. Has your venue achieved any sustainability or green certifications, such as IACC Green Star, LEED, Green Key or Green Globe?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Among the report’s conclusions were that some environmental changes — such as rising sea levels — are now irreversible, and that only strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases could limit climate change. See “Glasgow’s Sustainable Head Start” at the end of this story.) “We

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Launching early 2023, it is set to be the hottest opening of the year and will set a new standard for sustainability venues in the UK. Oceandiva London will play an essential part in developing sustainable environmental practices along the river. It’s owner and operator, Smart Group, is an industry trailblazer in sustainable events.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Amy Chong, head of food and beverage at ExCeL London, and chair of the Catering Working Group commented, “I am absolutely delighted to finally be able to publish the new and improved version of the catering section.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Food festivals deliver celebrity chefs, cooking demonstrations , and virtually unlimited food and beverage options to hordes of hungry attendees in cities across the United States. South Beach Food and Wine Festival: February 22–26, 2017. Charleston Wine + Food Festival: March 1–5, 2017.

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

Further, it has the lowest VAT rates in Europe and a high commitment to sustainability. Some examples of this sustainability approach include the ‘Grand Tour of Switzerland’, which can be done by e-car with charging stations along the route. Commitment to sustainability. There’s a reduction of food waste that we are engaged in.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

When Kimberly Smith was reviewing attendee feedback following the 2016 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference & Expo, she kept coming across the same complaint: The event’s F&B options had left attendees with a bad taste in their mouth. The feedback, she said, “was a wakeup call.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In fact, she says she felt validated after readi ng a MeetingsNet article titled 6 Top Trends Shaping the Meetings Scene in 2023 (inflation, decentralized workforce, attendee well-being, DEI, technology, and sustainability) because the planned IMEX education tracks were so closely aligned. Sessions cover generative A.I.,

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The Planner's Lounge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Tourism Ireland, the tourist board which promotes Ireland overseas has supported me with funding and opportunities to be featured at events in the USA and UK. Test the market before becoming a wedding planner to ensure there is a strong level of business available to you to generate a successful and sustainable wedding planning business.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2019

Dana Edmunds/Hawaii Tourism Authority). Meeting planners who hold events at the convention center have numerous options designed to increase efficiency and sustainably handle event-generated waste. Green Building Council. But low-energy technology and efficient waste management are just the beginning.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And if the facility does not have a variety of rooms to accommodate that, then the room turnover (switching a room from a meeting set up to a food and beverage function for example) would chew up valuable meeting time. Today a lot of event planning involves sustainability. Green meetings are also becoming quite commonplace.

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