Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The meetings industry in particular provided much support to the communities devastated by the Hurricane Ian’s impact. Meeting groups at Naples Grande Beach Resort , which had a brief closure, expressed interest in how they could meet and leave the area better than when they arrived.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hospitality professionals saw the industry undergo tremendous changes in 2021. Many hospitality conferences and conventions were virtual or hybrid events , while others were forced to cancel altogether. As a result, many industry professionals are wondering what to expect from the top hospitality conferences of 2022.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 2, 2024

Smart Meetings named Johnson a Smart Women in Meetings Hall of Fame Award winner in 2019 and after her book came out last year, she agreed to share the inspiration behind her journey and a chapter of the book that follows. What surprised you about hospitality after moving from those high-pressure arenas?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The new year forecast on the state of hospitality As meeting professionals launch into 2024, Smart Meetings sought out the wisdom of Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) CEO, Michael Dominguez, for his outlook of things to come in the new year. To watch the full webinar, click here. We’re headed in the right direction.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) President and CEO Mike Dominguez is bullish about the demand for group bookings and the path for building up the capacity to service meeting professionals sending RFPs in a compressed market with shrinking booking windows. We need to support hotels while they get staffed up,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

” – Paul Pellizzari, Vice President of global social responsibility, Hard Rock International One of the ugly truths of the hospitality and gaming industries is the prevalence of human trafficking victims and perpetrators passing through hotels and casinos, more often than anyone would want to know.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

” – Paul Pellizzari, Vice President of global social responsibility, Hard Rock International One of the ugly truths of the hospitality and gaming industries is the prevalence of human trafficking victims and perpetrators passing through hotels and casinos, more often than anyone would want to know.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Luckily for hospitality entrepreneurs attending New York University, there’s a lot to go around. Tisch Center of Hospitality (HI HUB) aim to support business savvy entrepreneurs. Through the program, Karaburun hopes the entrepreneurs will revitalize the hospitality industry. “We What Is the HI Hub?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) President and CEO Mike Dominguez is bullish about the demand for group bookings and the path for building up the capacity to service meeting professionals sending RFPs in a compressed market with shrinking booking windows. We need to support hotels while they get staffed up,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 15, 2024

Bring your meetings to destinations that go above and beyond Looking for a meeting space that is versatile, unique and nails top-notch hospitality? of meeting and event space. of meeting and event space span the building’s 22 nd and 23 rd floors. But it doesn’t forget refinement either.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many event professionals are hoping and waiting for a meeting industry new normal. We want to believe that, at some point, in-person meetings like the ones we’ve held for decades will return. Such areas are already holding local in-person events, but safe inter-regional meetings are not possible.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 29, 2021

Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management , says top executives from major brands are calling him to personally interview college students because they are desperate for employees to clean rooms and check people in. Her company is “doing whatever it takes” to hire hundreds of people each week for hospitality clients.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Some familiar names and kitchen-tested ideas are behind the launch of Appellation , a new hospitality company planning to open boutique properties with a local edge in popular luxury tourist destinations in the West. His philosophy is that “Genuine hospitality is the way a restaurant makes you feel before you even take a bite of food.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2023

This resource introduces foundational practices to assist professionals in the hospitality industry who aspire to host successful events welcoming and accepting all stakeholders to feel a sense of genuine inclusiveness.

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Skift Take: Hospitals, vaccination sites, now overflow shelter sites. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings That is a possibility for some convention centers as cities struggle to provide housing for incoming migrants and asylum seekers.

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EventMB

JULY 6, 2023

Skift Take: Hospitality workers at 61 Southern California hotels are on strike, demanding higher pay and better benefits. Meetings are being severely impacted as groups try to navigate the challenging situation. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Event Industry News

MARCH 30, 2022

A collaboration of hospitality industry representatives has created an auction of extraordinary experiences to help raise funds for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. More than 50 incredible prizes have been donated by hotels and hospitality organisations to Hospitality Auction4Ukraine.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Experts weigh in on what needs to change to work together better Editor’s Note : Hospitality sales consultant Steve Steinhart will be speaking at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience in Monterey, California, Nov. If all the meetings that we have re-scheduled for 2024 come through, we will show a very nice gain in the group market.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This two-year grant has been given with the purpose of attracting youth to hospitality. In October, employment in leisure and hospitality increased by 164,000 and has risen by 2.4 The post AHLA Receives $1 Million Hospitality Youth Grant appeared first on Smart Meetings. Hilton Foundation. Bureau of Labor Statistics. “The

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EventMB

AUGUST 24, 2022

Skift Take: As Skift Meetings has been reporting all summer, events have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels. However, Knowland, a data and hospitality technology company that tracks meetings and events volume is optimistic that the industry will be back to 100 percent by the end of 2023.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Black History Month is underway during the month of February and many companies within the hospitality industry are recognizing and honoring the achievements of African Americans and their contributions throughout U.S. Black History Month took root in 1915, 50 years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

It’s no secret that the hospitality industry has been understaffed since the beginning of the pandemic. If hotels are to meet this demand, they need to incentivize people to work for them. McKinsey & Company has found the biggest trends in hiring for the hospitality industry and developed a method for choosing the best employees.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

While professionals from every office, front desk, kitchen and corner of the hospitality industry worked tirelessly to keep our hotels open and running during the months of the pandemic, housekeepers have held it together with their tireless hands. The post Top Hospitality Heroes Win Housekeepers Award appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 9, 2023

The post Hospitality Industry Rushes to Support Wildfire Victims in Hawai’i appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One planning veteran says the new laws could help the meetings industry push for similar action nationwide. On the heels of her re-election as governor of New York, Kathy Hochul signed eight bills into law in mid-November that focus on combatting human trafficking across the hospitality and travel industries.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal. In October 2020 I wrote two posts [1 , 2 ] about what a meeting industry new normal might look like. Holding in-person meetings: what do we now know? It’s time to take another look. Accommodations.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2022

After a quiet two years on the events, hospitality and tourism fronts, an experience-driven, diversity, equity and inclusion-devoted (DEI) next generation of talent is pouring through open doors, looking for opportunities to break into the industry. Read More : What Meeting Profs Get Wrong About DEI—and How to Start Fixing It.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2024

Meetings planners converge to share their experiences April 11th, 2024, marks the annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) where meeting professionals all over the world will be able to share and learn from each other about the importance of the meetings industry on a global scale.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

A community of female leaders built on welcoming others emphasizes the power of belonging The announcement of the 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Award winners that went out Friday swelled the ranks of leaders honored to more than 1,000 strong. She loved everything about the business. As a female publisher 22 years ago, she was utterly alone.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is the first edition of Meetings Uncovered—Smart Meetings’ newest column focused on keeping you up to speed with the latest news in the hospitality industry. . These are missed birthday parties, graduations, time with loved ones and important meetings.”. Read more here. Read more here.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A near unanimous number of members from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, the largest labor union in Nevada, and the Bartenders Union Local 165 have voted to authorize a strike on the Las Vegas Strip, following tens of thousands of hospitality workers casting their votes at Thomas and Mack Center on the University of Nevada’s campus.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 10, 2022

and namesake for the hospitality school in the NYU School of Professional Studies, was realistic about the effects of Covid on the travel industry but remained optimistic about the upward trends of 2022. Read More: How Hospitality Programs Are Innovating: East and West Coast Perspectives. Changes to Hospitality After the Pandemic.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

Sheridan President and CEO of Meet Boston and co-chair, Meetings Mean Business Coalition What does the official end of Covid mean for the meetings industry? Are we better or less prepared for whatever next disruption comes to the hospitality industry? It’s difficult to tell. It’s a double edge sword!

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CadmiumCD

JANUARY 10, 2024

After nearly a decade with EthosCE, the Society for Hospital Medicine still finds it to be the best platform for their needs. The Challenge: Finding an efficient method for CME course creation In 2016, the Society of Hospital Medicine Education Department was looking for a more efficient way to create content.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 18, 2021

Tisch Center of Hospitality launched a brand new Hospitality Innovation Hub. More : I Just Completed the First Meeting & Event Management Master’s Program in North America—Here’s What I Learned. The vision really emerged about 10 years ago when we realized how the hospitality, travel and event industries were changing.

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Unique Venues

JUNE 2, 2023

At Unique Venues, we believe that at the core of being unique is an inherent inclusivity, so having a Planner’s Choice Award category that promotes Inclusive Meetings & Events is important to our mission and company culture. Congratulations to this Planner’s Choice venue!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A dynamic debut, re-conceptualized meeting space and an art-forward transformation Host your next event in a brand-new event space in St. Or, meet in the glory of the Colorado Rockies. Invigorating new spaces and re-designs provide the spaces for the autumn meeting of your dreams. Paul, Minnesota. Peter Street.

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