Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The beverage giant and “best of the city” publication announced the launch of Foodmarks, hand-picked, global “food landmarks” inspired by movies, pop culture moments, travel hotspots and other cultural phenomena that revolve around “the perfect moment, the perfect meal and an ice-cold Coca-Cola.”

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 5, 2024

Grand openings and major renovations refresh meeting space in famous international cities All across the world, in some of the most sought-after international cities, come new and renovated hotels and meeting spaces, leaving the stage set for outstanding gatherings, wherever your attendees may be traveling from to get there.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

Built in 1986, leading London events venue, The QEII Centre, was not originally constructed with sustainability in mind, but in recent years the team has been working diligently to rectify this. And while not perfect, the venue has successfully implemented wide-ranging initiatives to progress its pledge to reach carbon neutrality by 2040.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Local food, music, architecture and traditions shined through the events and experiences presented around the city ahead of Super Bowl LIX on Feb. Travelers could stand on the football field inside the box and snap a selfie in the branded mirror adorned with football helmet-wearing Nerds. At Woldenberg Park on Feb. Agency: Taylor, p.r.)

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

Instead of broad tech spending increases, planners are now prioritising practical tech applications, focusing on areas like venue cost optimisation, AV, and F&B management, highlighting a shift toward solutions that drive efficiency and deliver tangible ROI. Its important to go beyond simply supporting these practices.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 17, 2020

Let’s set aside the significant issues of whether attendees can: safely travel to and from events; be housed safely; move around an event venue while safely maintaining social distancing; and. The challenges of providing safe travel, accommodations, venue traffic patterns, and food & beverage all have to be overcome.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2024

This summer is looking at experiential travel—whether that be a relaxing health and wellness retreat, a culturally rich destination or an environmentally conscious and responsible gathering, summer 2024 trends are geared towards progressive practices.

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EventMB

AUGUST 20, 2024

There isn’t a single definition of “luxury” for hotels and meeting venues, but attendees recognize it when they experience it. Make it an Immersive Experience While the importance of in-person meetings and personal touches can’t be overstated, the ability to connect with attendees unable to travel is also essential.

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Event Farm

JUNE 9, 2021

Venue and governmental regulations keep changing. Of course, your costs will depend on the venue and local/state regulations still in place regarding mask-wearing, social-distancing, and room capacity. View the session recording #1: Venue and staff costs – 24% increase. 7: Travel and transportation – 111% increase.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2024

An embrace of the unexpected has been at the center of the resort’s mission from its inception, as well as its dedication to catering to both business and leisure travelers. The program takes surplus fresh food from catered events and repackages it to be delivered to individuals living in the Las Vegas Valley suffering from food insecurity.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Probably the most important of these is adequately modeling the air quality at the event, given the paucity of information available about the safety of specific venues and properties from an air quality perspective. I promised to publicize the venues that had made these upgrades. The main concern is air travel.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 29, 2020

The O2, has enhanced its senior leadership team with the appointment of Emma Hatt as director of meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE), and Amit Pathak, as food and beverage manager. Emma established her career in events over 15 years ago and has managed some of the most prestigious venues and events in London.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2023

Mark Cooper, CEO @IACCmeetings is bringing the venue community together to apply intentional creativity during Americas Knowledge Exchange in @DurhamNC @JBDukeHotel to the problem of the average 9 years of institutional wisdom lost in hospitality. I am treating the industry like a buffet and trying everything twice to see if like it.”

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Whether you’re paying to travel and attend, or you’re attending from your home office for free, either way, we’re trying to drive that value for everybody. And for the opening night concert, which takes place off-site, Salesforce team members meet up with first-timers to guide them to the venue.

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GEVME

JUNE 27, 2018

Your ideal picture of a conference venue shouldn’t be tied to a nice, accessible locale only. The choice of venue has to be based on the clear requirements that your event sets in terms of size, lighting, network capabilities, etc. When to start looking for a venue. The best tips for selecting a conference venue.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As a provider of venue management software ourselves, we often get asked how we compare with our competitors and what sets us apart. Which made us think that this is a question that almost everyone considering venue event management software asks at some point during their fact-finding and buying process. Sign up for a free trial.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You read it right – we’re finally tackling the topic of hybrid venues! And this, of course, includes venues! From creating broadcast studios of their own to offering monetary incentives, find out how venues are adapting to the hybrid future, and becoming hybrid venues in their own right! Source: PCMA.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 5, 2024

Learn More Especially at hotels and convention centers in the top 25 cities in America (known as “first-tier” destinations), the costs for labor, food and beverage, energy, and other items have gone up between 20 and 30 percent over the past four years—far above the rate of general inflation.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 2, 2022

We have seen a rise in corporate travel,” he said. Accor hopes to answer those existential questions with the promise of a meaningful career serving travelers. Markus Keller, Accor chief sales and distribution officer, shared his view of how meetings business is coming back in different parts of the world. “We

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 25, 2021

At a time when many marketers begin returning to in-person events and venues start to reopen, they’re being confronted with a supply and labor shortage that affects their ability to execute the kind of events they want. Business travel is down and not expected to return to 2019 levels until at least 2023 or 2024.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here are a few examples: Allow attendees to select tracks to plan their time on site — from keynotes, and breakout sessions, to networking, food and beverage, and other engaging experiences and activities. How can we give them the opportunity to choose their own journey pre-, on site, and post-event?

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Credit: iStock Event organizers are feeling the pinch as industry suppliers, venues and transportation companies rebound from the pandemic. Travel costs are rising due to strong demand (led by the leisure sector). Event venues are raising rates for basic services like electrical, internet, trash management and catering.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The wow experience is an intimate gathering at a memory-making new hotel that includes private dining at its restaurant, which is the latest hot spot in that food-obsessed city. Wherever I’ve traveled around the globe, I’ve typically found something I think is delicious. To wit, the wow destination is San Francisco. How shall I say it?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Venue Fees. The event venue is one of the most important—and most expensive—factors of the event budget. In addition to your venue minimum, you will want to keep a separate, more detailed F&B budget where you break out each individual meal function to factor in taxes, service charges and quantities of each item.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

We’re now looking at this [from] a more holistic view of the travel journey…we know we don’t survive without each other,” he remarked. The venue could turn around and use the language to cancel on the planner in the event of another surge in even local cases. Force or Fear Majeure? Some groups are coming back faster than others.

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Expo Pass

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We should start by saying that venues everywhere have put in tons of work to be able to host literally any kind of event right now. Whatever you are planning — in-person, virtual, or hybrid — there is a venue that can help make it happen. So to help you out, here’s our top 6 questions we would ask a venue before booking.

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Endless Events

APRIL 30, 2021

Choosing a hybrid event venue presents its own set of challenges. Now, venues also play a big part in promoting attendee safety and facilitating the technology necessary to engage the virtual audience. Now, venues also play a big part in promoting attendee safety and facilitating the technology necessary to engage the virtual audience.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 22, 2022

The indoor venues each have spacious 20-foot ceilings with floor-to-ceiling windows showing off downtown Austin. It combines remixed comfort food with a chic mid-century modern indoor and outdoor seating. Travelers with pets can purchase Origin’s Pup Package. Thompson Austin has more than 10,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Louis Union Station was a hub for travelers throughout the 1900s, sparking the moniker Gateway to the West, there are passionate people working to make it just as much a hub for modern visitors. There is a real sense of nostalgia for that time when just traveling was a big deal on its own.”. Louis: There is a Magic. Just as St.

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Event Farm

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Attendees balance a desire to participate in your event with the inconvenience of being away from home and the inherent risk of crowded environments while traveling and attending your event. If conditions change, people want assurance that they can get a refund. #5: 5: Pricing. Do you counter with a lower price? 12: Contact tracing.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

She will promote Fort Myers as a top destination for meetings and group travel to the MICE industry in her assigned region. He has worked with Marriott since 2011 and has excelled in food & beverage roles. Most recently, he served as director of venue and events at the East Montgomery County Improvement District.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 16, 2020

As COVID-19 wanes and people begin meeting again, what should planners know about precautions venues must take to ensure clean, safe spaces? He offered insight into how venues can make sure their spaces are ready for meetings. Class 2: Someone in the venue has had recent contact with an infected person.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2021

That live-guide component came into play for a program in the Faroe Islands tourism arm’s “Remote Tourism” campaign, which allowed travelers with itchy feet to control live people on the ground in various parts of the region by using their phone or computer keypad. HIGH-TECH SANITIZATION. Highmark TechSystems’ hand-washing Modulbox).

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2024

He has moved through ascending roles at Fairmont Dallas, beginning as the food and beverage manager/assistant director of banquets, and earlier as interim director of banquests and assistant director of banquets at Fairmont San Jose. He will now oversee the 545-room hotel’s conference services team.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2023

VIPs generally travel with their own protection teams and the Metropolitan Police Service assigns a team for each. Arrange for Personalized F&B Some guests may travel with their own private chef or order-in food from their favorite restaurant or the hotel. Any alcoholic beverages should be removed from the room.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They offers experiences in over 110 countries with 5,500 properties, 10,000 food and beverage venues, wellness facilities and workspaces. Beyond integrating more nourishing food and well-being activities, events reflect a growing awareness of participants’ needs for rest. AI transforms the way planners can design events.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2022

The hotel is set to host live music across all its public spaces and will also feature a dedicated entertainment venue for live concerts and celeb/media interviews. The RT60 Rooftop bar and lounge is the star of this hotel’s food and beverage operation, with views from the 33rd floor cheek-by-jowl to Rockefeller Center.

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