Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Meeting planners are responsible for the success of corporate events, conferences, and incentive programs. Hotels, CVBs, and destinations looking to attract more group business, need to understand the top pain points of meeting planners. Attendees now expect more interactive and engaging events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 9, 2025

Three fresh faces have been added to the board of trustees of event industry charity foundation Meeting Needs to replace four board members who have stepped down after serving Meeting Needs for a total of 20 years. We also need to thank our outgoing trustees, all of whom have made a magnificent contribution to Meeting Needs.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

Event professionals are urged to register now for The Meetings Show 2025 to gain access to an unforgettable experience. Some new elements include sessions on neurodiversity inclusion and The Human Library offering one-to-one meetings with experts in their field.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Meetings Show , the UKs leading event that brings together the worlds meetings and events community, has given innovators and industry experts an extra week to submit their game-changing ideas and insights for the 2025 show. The Meetings Show 2025 co-located with Business Travel Show Europe, will take place on 25-26 June 2025.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 11, 2025

Event planners are urged to secure their space on The Meetings Shows popular Hosted Buyer Programme as it opens for registration. With hosted buyer spots for The Meetings Show APAC full two months before its April opening in Singapore, planners wishing to attend the London show are advised to submit applications now.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

Sutton Hotel Collection is delighted to announce the launch of its new Meet Well, Live Well delegate meeting package designed to place wellbeing at the heart of every meeting. Fresh smoothies and non-alcoholic cocktails for breaks and post-meeting networking sessions. Wellbeing gift in the meeting room for all delegates.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 8, 2025

Pre-pandemic, top-performing annual meetings and trade shows that we analyzed yielded a gross profit of 5565 percent. That being said, meetings rarely outperform the industries they serve. The higher reporting is due to an average 24% increase to group room rates, growth of leisure travel and small meetings.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The role corporate social responsibility plays in real-world impact The meetings industry is grounded in impact—and not just for attendees. As such, many meeting profs are finding CSR approaches to be more and more essential to their events.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Megan Henshall, global event solutions, strategic lead at Google and co-lead of the Google Experience Institute (Google Xi) spoke to Smart Meetings about her pioneering work in neuroinclusive event design. Lucky for you, Smart Meetings was there furiously taking notes to bring his expertise back to you. Alone in the Crowd?

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 16, 2025

These are often micro-communities who support each other throughout the year and meet at in-person events. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. One of the drivers for them to attend is to fulfill their volunteer leader obligations.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

London Hotel Group, The Wesley, has two sustainable hotels based in Camden and Euston, that serve as the perfect location for delegates looking for a corporate event, training, conference or meeting space in Central London. Bloomsbury – An intimate meeting space with a large LED screen. This room can also be partitioned.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 29, 2024

Marin Bright often told the story of how she launched the meetings and events industry’s first lifestyle magazine in 2002, a few months after the devastating attacks on 9/11 and the downturn in the travel industry. The post A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Marin Bright appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

With only 12 hours for set up, UK-based specialist in temporary inflatable structures, Evolution Dome, deployed 137 private meeting pods for a 1500-person, three-day healthcare conference at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando, Florida, 01-03 April 2025.

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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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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It should benefit attendees by meeting or exceeding their needs in the following ways: Serve — Hub spaces should always include some sort of concierge or help desk so that participants can easily understand and navigate what’s available in this multi-purpose space. It should be a place that attendees frequent to meet up with each other.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Ahead of its 2 Year anniversary and at the end of the first full year of operation, The Power of Events not for profit organisation has held its first Advisory Board meeting on Thursday 28 th November. We now have online Open Taskforce meetings too, which anyone working in the industry can join and contribute to.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Vote for the Best in the Industry At Smart Meetings, we believe in the power of innovation to transform the way we gather, nourish, and reward guests. By voting for the industry’s brightest hotels, venues, and CVBs, you’re contributing to a future where every meeting and event can be extraordinary.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

Vote for the Best in the Meetings Industry Click the button below to vote for the venues and CVB/DMOs you know for distinguished characteristics from hospitality to facilities. The Planner Choice Award The 13th Smart Stars award is based on the actual experiences of Smart Meetings magazine readers at venues and destinations around the world.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

Vote for the Best in the Meetings Industry The 13th annual planner’s choice award is based on the actual experiences of Smart Meetings magazine readers at venues and destinations around the world. Vote by March 21st for your vote to be automatically entered into the contest, where three lucky voters win a $100 gift card!

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s expected that meetings in Q3 or Q4 will outperform those held in the first half of this year. A lot of meetings operating in Q1 and Q2 ended up extending their early-bird deadlines multiple times. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. Market differently.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 8, 2025

As an Amazon affiliate, Smart Meetings earns from qualifying purchases. I still have that bookits under my bed with a stack of old Smart Meetings magazines. Sign up for the Smart Marketplace Monthly Newsletter The post Booked and Busy: The Best Event Planning Reads Youll Actually Use appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

The Convene portfolio of brands, a global lifestyle hospitality company that designs and manages premium meeting, event, and flexible workspaces and includes etc.venues, today announced that its venue at 200 Aldersgate, St. The location spans more than 25,000 square-feet and will comprise eight meeting rooms across two floors.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Compared to last year’s Meetings Market Survey, almost twice as many event organizer respondents to this year’s survey are including sustainability requirements in their RFPs. Little’s Prism magazine , which is devoted entirely to sustainability. Michelle Russell is editor in chief of Convene.

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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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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

There, they participated in talent meet-and-greets, engaged with the shows Big Board Race, stopped by a Who He Play For? Over at the Amex Experience on Powell St., the brand offered fans their 15 minutes of fame with a behind-the-scenes, interactive experience that dropped them into the world of Inside the NBA.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

HeadBox, the UK’s fastest-growing B2B meetings and events platform, is proud to announce the release of its latest whitepaper, “How AI is Solving the Event Industry’s Biggest Challenges.”

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Clermont Hotel Group has launched a new ‘Booking Bonus Rewards’ programme to reward individual agents for booking meetings and events at its iconic hotels. Designed to recognise the increasing demand for meetings and events in London, agents can earn shopping vouchers starting at £50, with rewards scaling up to £500 for large-scale bookings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

And this year Meeting Needs, the event industry charity, has sponsored the ambulance service for six months at a cost of just £5,000. Village Africa and the people of the Yamba region are immensely grateful for this support from Meeting Needs. You guys have been really generous to us over the years. Thank you so much.”

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Meetings Industry Association’s (MIA) has unveiled the shortlist for its prestigious 2024 miaList, having received a record-breaking number of nominations for a third consecutive year.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2024

The changing dynamics of the workplace and the role of AI in the business meetings and events industry are among the topics being discussed at the miaSummit 2024.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 15, 2022

For some of the major annual meetings we’re tracking, sponsorship revenue has been a bright spot when compared to exhibit revenue performance. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. Which of these strategies are you currently using for sponsorship pricing?

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

The strategy will see major investments across the hotel’s high-profile meetings and investment spaces, including its iconic International Suite. We’re investing heavily across the hotel, improving our bedrooms, introducing new concepts to the hotel, and building on our already very special meetings and events spaces”.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2024

Robert Kenward, Fitability® Recruiter at You Search & Select has been appointed as a board member of the Meetings Industry Association (MIA). With recruitment being an ongoing challenge for the sector, the leading industry recruitment expert will focus on providing best practice guidance and strategic advice to board members.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Meetings Show is excited to announce the opening of applications for its 2025 Tomorrows Talent programme, a key initiative aimed at discovering and celebrating future leaders in the business meetings and events industry. To nominate yourself or a colleague visit The Meetings Show.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 8, 2025

The idea emerged organically after the launch of Grand Designs Magazine in 2004, as the team identified a demand for a fresh and innovative home build, renovation, and design show. At that time, the event was a groundbreaking venture for a newly established publishing company with no prior experience in exhibitions.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

ECOsmart by Greengage is the leading certification system for hotels, meeting venues, short stay apartments and pubs with meeting rooms. The Wesley hotel has also set up with EVENTsmart,Greengage’s carbon calculator, which lets venues track the carbon footprint of all meetings and events happening on their premises.

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