Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2025

For suppliers looking to expand their business and stand out in a competitive landscape, one of the most lucrative opportunities involves connecting with meeting and event planners. Understand Your Target Audience: Who Are Meeting & Event Planners? Ask yourself: What makes my venue, service, or product indispensable to planners?

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

billion) of MICE business volume was sourced through the Cvent Supplier Network, one of the worlds largest MICE hotel and venue sourcing marketplaces. These significant milestones underscore the value that organisations place on meetings and events in achieving critical business objectives. Last year, $16.5 billion (13.1

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The majestic Leeds Castle , located near Maidstone, Kent, has enhanced its meetings and events space with the addition of its Grade I listed The Gatehouse. This self-contained venue can be booked alongside conferences at the Castle or Maiden’s Tower as an evening reception or breakout space during the day.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

London hotel group, The Wesley, has recently achieved ECOSmart gold Accreditation following an in-depth examination process that was conducted by Greengage, an organisation that supports hospitality businesses on their individual sustainability journeys.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2024

30 Euston Square has reinforced its dedication to charitable giving and community impact through a recent collaboration with Smart Works, further cementing the venue’s focus on making a difference. To date, a value of more than £10,000 has been donated by the venue to the charity that helps feed people in the local Euston community.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The meetings and events facilities at the Celtic Manor Resort have been renamed the Ian Edwards Conference Centre to celebrate the memory of the venue’s long-serving Chief Executive Officer, who sadly passed away last month.

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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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Event Marketer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In this episode, were going inside Canada Olympic House, one of 30-plus hospitality houses organized by National Olympic Committees that popped up in the city to support athletes, their families and friends, brand partners, sponsors and fans.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Located in the heart of Portugal’s vibrant capital, Luxe Lisboa Park offers sophisticated accommodation that perfectly aligns with Vine Tree Connections’ commitment to exceptional hospitality experiences.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Virtual and augmented reality for event previews, AI-powered event apps, and seamless hybrid event solutions will differentiate successful venues. Customers expect venues and events to cater to their specific needs, whether through curated delegate journeys, personalised digital interactions, or bespoke on-site services.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

Here, Smart Meetings brings you the key takeaways. #1 1 2028 is Poised to Spur a Significant Market Shift With the demand for meeting space continuing to soar, event planners are increasingly feeling the pressure to lock in venues ASAP. Dominguez pointed to data showing that, on average, hotels currently have 14.5

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

He has spent over 35 years in the international hospitality and business events industry, having began his career in hotels. At the lifestyle hotel, Kreitman will leverage her successful track record of hospitality industry leadership to further the hotels reputation as a premier South Florida destination.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 5, 2024

Restaurant group offers lesson in setting standards for quality, culture and service Steve Pettus True hospitality starts with making a friend, according to the Brennan philosophy of running world-class New Orleans restaurants. That is hospitality, the joy of watching people eat food made with care.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two-thirds of meeting professionals have reported the recovery of the hospitality industry to more than half of 2019 levels and one-third reported having reached beyond recovery to 80% of 2019 levels, according to new research by IACC’s new report, Meeting Room of the Future Barometer Late—November 2022. Hybrid Is Down.

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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? You may find it in an innovative, high-tech NYC venue; or, perhaps a characteristic boutique hotel in beautiful Boise. of meeting and event space.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 25, 2025

The business events, accommodation and meetings industry contributes more than 61 billion to the UK economy each year, yet it remains particularly vulnerable to inflationary pressures, talent shortages and inconsistent government support. Our sector doesnt just respond to growth we help drive it.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The team were privileged to attend the Meetings & Incentive Travel Awards in September along with 800 other industry professionals and were elated to walk away with the Silver Award for Best Mid-Sized Agency especially as it was only their second year attending.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2023

The Hospitality Show Las Vegas will place eco-friendliness front and center The first-ever Hospitality Show is coming to Las Vegas and its producers are making strong sustainability efforts from the get-go. The post The Hospitality Show’s Inaugural Event Is Placing Sustainability at the Forefront appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 25, 2021

These are just some of the enticements for hospitality and other service workers in a labor market where demand is exceeding supply. And a third of former hospitality workers said reentering the industry wasn’t even on the table, according to a Joblist survey. Another complicated factor of the labor shortage could be vaccines.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 2, 2025

Convene , a global lifestyle hospitality company that designs and manages premium meeting, event, and flexible workspaces, today announced the expansion of its UK in-house AV team to support locations across London. As the largest single provider of dedicated meeting and event venues in the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2025

Avoid pitfalls and protect your event Contracts are the lifeblood and backbone of the meetings industry. Ask the venue to provide a breakdown of all fees. Past Success is Also Important Venues and hotels like to know that groups have a history or track record of successful events and are considered low financial risks.

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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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EventSource

MARCH 18, 2025

Set against the charming, cobblestone streets of Torontos historic Distillery District, the event gave couples a rare chance to explore three of the citys most sought-after wedding venues all within the same day: Cluny Bistro , The Distillery District - Loft , and Archeo. Mango Studios captured the gorgeous details for us on both days.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Focus on the Target Audience POV Meeting professionals know that some of the best ideas happen between sessions. Attendees were treated to a demonstration of how live events create brand advocate communities in a venue designed to excite rabid Las Vegas football fans. Each moment built in intensity leading up to the grand finale.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 18, 2025

Among the venue teams partners is catering company, Baxter Storey, who this year celebrated its 20 th birthday and in 2023 was recognised as the first-ever business and industry sector caterer to achieve World Class status by Hospitality Assured.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Read More : Today’s Best Practices for Visas and International Travel Business travel has been a key economic driver, thanks in no small part to the power of in-person meetings and events. While virtual meetings kept people connected during the pandemic, in-person engagements are proving more critical than ever.” million people).

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

On Friday 4 th October, The Belfry Hotel & Resor t hosted its second annual Springboard Takeover Day, showcasing careers in the hospitality industry to children from eight local schools. Chris Eigelaar, Resort Director at The Belfry, spoke to students about his 20-year-long career in hospitality and his love for the industry.

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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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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 17, 2024

Moving Venue has announced an exclusive five-year partnership with Freemasons’ Hall to serve as the official caterer for external commercial events and in-house lodge dining for members. From intimate meetings to grand receptions, Moving Venue will be the cornerstone of culinary excellence within this iconic building.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Julie takes charge of Wales largest independent hotel group at The Celtic Collection as well as the UKs newest convention centre at ICC Wales. She also has prior experience in Welsh hospitality having managed the voco St Davids Hotel in Cardiff Bay.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2023

As event managers, our goal at the end of a long-awaited event is to ensure meeting planners and their constituents are happy. 2 destination for meetings in North America, and one can imagine our event spaces and hotel services at JW Marriott Nashville see great demand being that we are in the heart of the happenings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Within the programme will be two keynote sessions, as well as panel discussions from senior influencers within and outside of the business events, travel, and hospitality industry. Cally Louise Stewart will kick things off with a session on Female Relationships and the importance of them at events and within event teams.

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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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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. Skift Meetings partnered with the Grand America Hotel, a top-tier property in Salt Lake City, to produce this report, highlighting strategies for achieving a truly luxurious experience.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

CHS Leeds is set to continue its impact on the meetings and events industry with the launch of its Hosted Buyer Programme and the announcement of more elite exhibitors to help event industry professionals fulfil their RFPs and put together their event programmes. CHS Leeds would also not be possible without the support of key sponsors.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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