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Best of 2024: Event Safety and Security

Smart Meetings

Here are several stories from the last year that covered the many security checkpoints that follow attendees from the airport to their hotel room. A Security Flaw in Millions of Hotel Keycard Locks Has Been Found. What to Expect When Booking A-List Event Speakers Gathering people in a 9,000-square-foot ballroom comes with risks.

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Hotel Leadership Conference announces 2025 theme of ‘Distilling Excellence’ 

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‘Distilling Excellence’ has been announced as the overarching theme for the upcoming Hotel Leadership Conference 2025, taking place 20-21 January 2025 at Hilton London Bankside. “It’s about really questioning what it is at the heart of what you do and why do it – what makes your hotel unique and how can you capitalise on it?

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What to Expect When Booking A-List Event Speakers

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Amid the whirlwind of a high-powered CEO or celebrity’s life, many still find time to speak at corporate events, but what happens when these A-list event speakers’ busy lives get the best of them and they need to bow out of their speaking commitment, or they don’t arrive at the anticipated time? What Does that Mean for Planners?

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Holograms Beam into Events

Smart Meetings

Hologram technology can increase engagement and attract hard-to-get speakers Meetings may be a mostly in-person experience but—as we learned during Covid, with the use of Zoom, Teams and other online video platforms—the use of communications technology has its place in the world of meetings and events. Holograms as Speaker Catcher “The No.

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The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton

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Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. More than 40 speakers and industry leaders were also expected to attend. Still, many attendees, exhibitors and speakers were still on site. is to be prepared for anything.

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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

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Read More: Sustainability as a Practice Defining Sustainability The discussion began with a broad overview of what sustainability means to each speaker. Even choosing a hotel that’s LEED certified is an action that is impacting and contributing to your sustainability measures,” Allen said. “Or She is also an FICP board member.

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Lake Nona Wave Hotel Wants to Turn Your Group into Superhumans

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The 234-room Lake Nona Wave Hotel is right at home in Lake Nona, Florida, a 17-square-mile planned mixed-use planned community that is self-proclaimed “of and for the future.”. meeting destinations for five consecutive years—and for good reason,” says James Tattersall, director of sales and marketing at Lake Nona Wave Hotel.

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