Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Tired of Group 5 airline travelers jumping the line and stealing your overhead space? Looking for a showstopping dining experience to feature at your next meeting? You’re not alone—a major conference is being held to address the G20’s fastest-growing MICE market. of leisure and meeting spaces.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2025

This years Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) was one to remember. Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) teamed up for a lively, eight-hour livestream packed with fresh insights, emerging trends and meaningful discussions around the future of meetings and events.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Event Marketer’s 2025 B-to-B Dream has been unveiled. The team, created in January 2023, consolidated resources from marketing, sales, and EMEA to form the first-ever global events team at Workiva. Strehle heads up a group of five that sits in marketing operations and ladders up to the vp of marketing.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2025

How to Help MICE Colleagues With the full extent of damage from the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires still being evaluated, many in the meetings and events industry are stepping up to find meaningful ways to support those impacted. 21-25) The Grammys LA Mart Winter Market Gift + Home 2025 (Jan. 28-30) CMC LA Market Week (Jan.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 24, 2025

In search of comfortable-yet-affordable accommodations for your next meeting or event? City Express by Marriott is gearing up to offer options in four new markets. Planning a meeting in the UK or Ireland? As always, Smart Travel is here to bring you the latest must-read travel and tourism news. just became easier.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Meetings Show , the UK’s leading event that brings together the world’s meetings and events community, is calling for innovators and industry experts to submit their game-changing ideas and insights for the 2025 show. Can you confidently talk about the future of event marketing? Have you got the handle on hybrid?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2025

Global meeting planners are exceeding expectations. Brand USA, a public-private partnership focused on increasing international travel, reported that in 2026, the U.S. is on track to welcome 90 million visitors one year ahead of the goal outlined by the National Travel and Tourism Strategy report. Travel Association and the U.S.

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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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Smart Meetings

JUNE 14, 2023

According to the global survey of 3,850 business travelers in 25 markets: Nearly all global business travelers (94%) are willing to travel for business in the next 12 months, including 67% who are very willing. business travelers (72%) feel they haven’t had equal opportunity. Even more U.S. Even more U.S.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 24, 2025

As event marketers can attest, travel costs are up. But companies appear to be accepting this new cost of doing business as corporate travel spending is making a modest comeback this year. Positive news for event marketers. Some 77 percent of five travel buyers indicated their companys spend increased last year.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Sephora’s flagship event was always meant to travel to different U.S. markets, and this year, SEPHORiA made its way to Atlanta for the first time. host city that aligns values with Sephora,” says Kate Biancamano-Brown, senior director-event and experiential marketing at Sephora. We choose a [U.S.]

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Your attendee travelers are eager to hit the road, but thanks in part to economic challenges like inflation, companies are cutting back on T&E. Those able to travel freely are combining remote work with longer leisure trips. Corporate travel policies may start including air emissions tracking.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

Ferguson came together at Union Market for its annual Travel Rally, held during U.S. Travel Association’s National Travel and Tourism Week—which happened this past week—where they discussed the region’s forecast and data from 2021. Travel, overseas visitation will likely not reach 2019 levels until 2025.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. The company, edgefactory , is no novice; it was founded in 1999.

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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.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Analysing the forces shaping the meetings and events industry on a global scale, the report underlines the importance of talent to the future of the industry, and charts its evolution in a post-pandemic world. It is this skill for adaptability that is driving growth in the global events market.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 26, 2023

From extreme team building to incentive trips in far-flung destinations with adventure components, risk-taking incentive travelers are not an unknown commodity in the MICE industry. However, this doesn’t mean the trend is influencing and changing the incentive market. “I The liability is just too much,” he said.

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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. To truly capture their interest and secure their business, you need a precise, well-crafted digital marketing strategy tailored to their unique needs.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Lauren Shoaf Pace Lauren Shoaf Pace, Destinations International Pace is appointed vice president of marketing at Destinations International (DI). With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2024

Welcome to Smart Travel, our weekly column where we share our latest tips and tricks to stay up to date on the can’t-miss news in travel. Today, we explore top travel apps and services, can’t-miss pricing for those planning a South American getaway, new international airline routes and more.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 22, 2024

9, 2024, she will step into the top executive position at the official destination marketing organization (DMO) and convention and visitors bureau (CVB) for the five boroughs of New York City. SDTA’s sales and marketing programs delivered a $30 to $1 return on investment—the highest in the organization’s history. Beginning on Dec.

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They often involve reusable assets, saving marketers money amid rising costs. We’ve been lucky enough to explore tour stops in person this season and chat with event marketers who are working diligently behind the scenes and on the ground. Uber is traveling to 13 college campuses this fall with a bodega-inspired pop-up.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We hopped on a call with Nicole Rogers, executive vp and chief sales officer for San Francisco Travel, the City and County of San Francisco’s official destination marketing organization, for a lengthy conversation about the realities the city is facing, the event business, and how the city is working to keep events and event attendees safe.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Candidates were initially hesitant to travel, but the balance of power has gently shifted towards employers, so they are now insisting on in-person meetings after an initial online chemistry session or similar. Salary Settlements “Salaries are beginning to stabilize after a period of significant increases.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

You can tailor the tone to different people, like making luxury-focused messages for people who want a fancy experience or exciting ones for travelers looking for adventure. So why not let your tipsy best friend take charge of your marketing? Get in touch with Smart Meetings to kick off your Tipsy campaign today!

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Her father had cerebral palsy, which brought its own needs. “I

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 19, 2024

Don’t leave home without these With the world wide open for business, you may be headed for an international conference or meeting. Outdated web resources could mean you miss your meeting. Many travelers swear by communication apps like WhatsApp and Skype, which let you phone home as if you were still in the U.S.

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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. There is, however, an impact on short-term demand as people await the outcome of the budget announcement.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Looking for a better booking platform to line up group travel? Sabre and Internova Travel have released a new offering to the market that is worth looking over. Wondering about the future long-term impacts of the travel sector? Worried about whether Florida is prepared to host a meeting post-hurricane season?

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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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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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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 9, 2025

The Venues Collection has appointed Gill Scott as National Business Development Manager to support and expand its work in the corporate and business travel markets. Gill brings extensive sales and account management experience from the hotel, leisure and travel sectors, having held senior roles at De Vere, IHG and Marriott.

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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

JULY 6, 2023

Suffice it to say, the general public in both North America and Canada are eager to travel while also welcoming tourism and events back to their respective communities much in the vein of the storied “before times.” The post Travel and Tourism Trends in U.S. and Canada appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The post Company Rock Stars appeared first on Event Marketer. What better way to facilitate that connection than spotlighting, recognizing and gathering the talent and team members who make products, services and experiences happen? Now thats leading like a rock star. The Trend of the Week is coproduced with the support of Proscenium.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 25, 2025

To find out what the university is teaching future meetings and event professionals and what they gleaned from the two days of sessions and networking, we asked Ryan Becker, senior vice president of communications and strategy with Visit California. Those values are encapsulated in the vision statement: Live, protect, explore.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. Orlando, Florida 2.

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