Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Element is also established within corporate incentive travel. These range from luxury travel for small groups to trips for hundreds of sales staff, and when coupled with consumer travel prizes for brand promotion, a large proportion of Element’s delivery is in planning and sourcing travel, accommodation and group activities.

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Attendease

MARCH 4, 2020

With many global events being canceled due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, event managers are looking for solutions like Attendease as an alternative to bring in-person events online.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

The UKs leading event that brings together the worlds meetings and events community returns to Excel London on 25-26 June, offering high quality educational and networking opportunities and the chance to meet over 650 global event suppliers.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But what does this mean for meeting planners and business travelers? Is it time to “lift and shift” events again? There isn’t much consensus on how countries should respond and whether international travel should be suspended. Holiday travelers are adjusting their trips. but fears certainly have. but fears certainly have.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

In his new role, Fullard will lead Identity’s global marketing and communications strategy, leveraging his expertise to showcase the agency’s innovative approach to creating human-centric events and experiences.

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EventMB

JANUARY 14, 2022

Taiwan’s low case numbers mean that it has in some ways been an oasis of normalcy during the pandemic, but those low rates are in part thanks to travel restrictions that have limited intervention business visitors. How is the local event industry faring? How has Taiwan experienced and adapted to the pandemic from an event […].

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In addition to overseeing Visit Denver’s sustainability initiatives, she has served as a member of the EIC Sustainable Event Standards Committee and is a former Event Services Professional Association board member. We know that air travel has one of the largest carbon impacts when it comes to events.

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Germany has deemed travel for trade shows and exhibitions "essential" as of September 15th. This is a significant development for the global events industry that may help kick-start international travel for events around the world — if it lasts. by Victoria Copans appeared first on [link].

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EventMB

JANUARY 24, 2024

Skift Take: Through its acquisition of MGME, InteleTravel is looking to leverage its leisure travel experience to grow in the meetings and incentives market. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 11, 2025

The UKs leading event that brings together the worlds meetings and events community returns to Excel London on 25-26 June, giving buyers unrestricted access to high quality educational and networking opportunities, plus the chance to meet hundreds of global event suppliers under one roof.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As Megan Henshall , strategic lead for Google’s global events team and co-founder of The Neu Project, explained, helping this majority-minority community participate fully is not a compliance problem; it is a business opportunity. Her father had cerebral palsy, which brought its own needs.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As abrupt as it was, the shift to virtual programming hasn’t been all bad news for event managers; as HubSpot has shared, “Being online allows us to invite more people to be part of the INBOUND community. With travel costs eliminated we can reach attendees all around the globe.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The acquisition of IME Connect follows the merger of Miami-based A-Plus Meetings & Events and Utah-based Columbus Travel into M-Plus Global Events earlier in 2022. The way companies join forces at this point in the recovery may not follow traditional models of hostile takeovers and mass mergers. Newest Acquisition.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

And while you’re here, catch up on the latest news in travel advisor tech, the launch of a new Reed & Mackay division and brand-new research on the customized travel market. New top-tier luxury venues in Dubai or Mexico may be just the ticket. The result is a true benchmark in high-end hospitality.”

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Endless Events

MAY 14, 2021

The days of strictly virtual events all across the world might be over, but that doesn’t mean that virtual is dead, period. While it’s hard to equate the feeling of an in-person experience to that of a digital one, there’s no denying the many benefits of virtual events. Planning Global Events.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

And while you’re here, catch up on the latest news in travel advisor tech, the launch of a new Reed & Mackay division and brand-new research on the customized travel market. New top-tier luxury venues in Dubai or Mexico may be just the ticket. The result is a true benchmark in high-end hospitality.”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Whether physical or cyber, events without ample security not only makes events less safe, they also make the possibility of creating personal and professional connections much less likely, as attendees spend more time worrying about their physical safety or their sensitive information being breached. 10 Safest Places to Travel in 2022.

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Event Marketer

JUNE 14, 2021

Over the years, event marketers have relied on traditional tactics to sustain event engagement, like wrapping the event with a concert by a Grammy Award-winning artist or offering major incentives like free travel. Another clear signal: Ignoring travel considerations like flight patterns.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Dominguez noted that even though mega-conferences were absent last year, borders are now largely open and travel is back with a vengeance. Travel is back, in Dominguez’s eyes. Travel is back, in Dominguez’s eyes. For those who did some ‘revenge travel’ last year, Dominguez says ‘revenge meetings’ is the next thing.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Action Area 1 is a core focus for Peter Duthie, CEO at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow – host venue for COP26: “Central to achieving our net zero goal is the development of an ambitious energy strategy which will transition the campus to renewable energy. The launch of the Roadmap was Phase 2 of Net Zero Carbon Events initiative.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

All Covid protocols will be observed at the meeting space, and people who choose not to travel will be accommodated with some digital options. “At CES is the world’s largest innovation event, and we have thousands of people coming from around the world to see and show products that will make life better.”. “CES Safe Travels.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Identity is a full-service live events agency with over 20 years of experience delivering large-scale global events, including COP26, the G7 and NATO Summits, working closely with clients to create impactful experiences. In 2023, the Emirate recorded 1.22

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2022

He has also worked in management roles for Visit Oakland, San Francisco Travel Association, Park Central Hotel in San Francisco and others. Dallas-based global event company Freeman promoted Moggré to chief client officer. Martin Moggré. NCVC) appointed Schult as CMO. Pete Clearwater (VSPC) in the greater St.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

September 2021 — Are in-person events COVID safe? 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. The main concern is air travel.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In our registration flow, we included our definition and what we consider early in career isany customer, partner or prospect who has less than seven years in their industry, in their business or in their role, says Britney McDaniel, global event content manager at Cisco. So it’s not [new] in our industry, but in their industry.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

The sustainability program is designed to assist guests and meeting planners in developing a deeper understanding of their carbon footprint while traveling. She has served as an ardent steward of climate-positive business.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Innov8 Meetings + Events named Castellanos director of global events. Castellanos has experience in sales, marketing and special events; she previously worked as executive director for ODC Products. She previously worked as chief marketing officer for Santa Monica Travel & Tourism in California.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2022

As the country is facing its seventh Covid wave , international travelers must be part of a guided package tour, led by an escort. While countries like Japan have expressed hesitance to reopening, others have opened up completely to visitors and business events of all kinds. Responses by countries in the region have varied greatly.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 24, 2025

Elizabeth Sage is a certified personal coach, accomplished event strategist and speaker. She is head of education and content at Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) and adjunct faculty at SDSU Event Management Masters program.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webinar session, Joanna Pineda, CEO and chief troublemaker of Matrix Group International , and Jennifer O’Grady, senior director of Design Studio of Maritz Global Events , tackled the Secrets for Engaging Platform-agnostic Association Meetings. In an exclusive Smart Chat Live! Watch the entire webinar here. F2F with a Side of Digital.

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Skift

JANUARY 15, 2020

Marriott International Skift Take: China has become a hot spot for global business travel and its secondary cities are evolving to accommodate larger conferences and conventions. What should event planners know? The W Xi'an in northwest China is shown here. Marriott has a joint venture with Alibaba.

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Eventmobi

JUNE 23, 2020

We asked Event Planners if they are planning to incorporate a hybrid strategy for events going forward, and if yes, to share their insights into how that will work. With attendees no longer limited by travel costs or schedule conflicts, you can reach all over the world to find attendees. Melissa Park, Global Event Producer.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Maritz Global Events Wellbeing Leader Rachael Riggs reported that the sustainability challenge executed in partnership with Heka Health from IMEX Frankfurt was back on and very popular. Stevens is a four-time winner of Fittest male #Eventrprof and earned a Delos Wellness for Meetings and Events certificate. Plan Ahead.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A newly released Incentive Research Foundation 2019 Trends Study showed that incentive travel is an increasing priority in a world where acquisitions are creating bigger companies, and getting teams producing together quickly is essential to making the deal pencil out. Market Driven. market volatility and a tightening U.S.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 24, 2024

InteleTravel, an integrated travel distribution group built on the longtime mega-host travel agency, announced today it has acquired MGME (McVeigh Global Meetings & Events), a leading full-service global events agency with over 30 years of expertise in event planning, strategic meeting management, incentive travel programs and creative production, (..)

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Traveling for a conference is no longer an excuse to abandon your mental health and physical well-being goals. In fact, according to a trio of meeting professional experts, taking care of yourself is even more important when you are the one charged with caring for your attendees.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

In 2023, he was nominated as a Hyatt Commercial Services Director of Group Sales of the Year, and will now bring his expertise to oversee group and event sales efforts, planning, marketing, PR and hotel activations. Steve Bailen Steve Bailen, MGME Global events agency MGME appoints Bailen as client development director.

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