Smart Meetings

APRIL 29, 2021

Despite new technological developments in video conferencing, 81 percent of global business travelers have seen their jobs negatively impacted by restrictions to cross-border travel. The pandemic has tacked on a bit more stress to the traveler experience, according to the research. Prepandemic, 66 percent U.S.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious? The company, edgefactory , is no novice; it was founded in 1999.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

a Smart Meetings podcast, host JT Long, vice president and content director of Smart Meetings, explores essential strategies for ensuring safety in an increasingly risky world. Kevin Coffey : Kevin Coffey is our travel security and meeting risk advisor and trainer. In this episode of What One Thing? ,

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 19, 2017

Business travel has always been wearing , and hard on occasion, too. As a meeting professional, travel is in your DNA—but you still might ask yourself from time to time, “Should I really go?” Here’s expert guidance on how to manage travel anxiety in today’s uncertain world. Travel more: Counterintuitive, right?

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SmartMeetings

JULY 10, 2017

Finding a host city for a key meeting can be a geographic Rubik’s cube of schedules and locations that can seem impossible to solve. This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. Meeting space: 4.2

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2024

He pointed to progress happening in Europe and is bringing resources such as TravelAbility to members to make it easier for aging populations and others in need of accommodations to participate more fully in local experiences. The post ASAE-DI Partnership to Focus on Security and Diversity appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Between Hurricanes TravelMarket, at JW Marco Island Beach Resort in southwest Florida, is a major show for travel agents. The post The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 22, 2024

EIC is inviting anyone in the meetings industry—event organizers, hotels representatives, destination management professionals, event technology providers, and others—to have their say. The survey, which can be accessed here , will be open for approximately two weeks.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 13, 2021

If a person’s actions do not meet this standard of care, then the acts are considered negligent…”. 4 Risk Management Questions for Meeting Hosts. Will we require proof of vaccination or a negative test result prior to travel? In risk management, shifting liability to another party is a common practice.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 29, 2024

Brennan Bastyovansky Brennan Bastyovansky, WTP Bastyovansky will serve as general manager of sales and marketing for World Travel Protection (WTP). He brings an extensive background in travel risk management, with experience in business growth, strategic development and building lasting relationships with customers and partners.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

How meeting profs can keep event data safe with the latest cybersecurity tools You don’t want to be the next data leak to hit the headlines. It runs the risk of your computer or tablet getting malware and giving hackers the keys to your data. It limits your liability in the space and limits your risk.” But what to do?

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SmartMeetings

MAY 16, 2024

Even if that more adventurous perspective doesn’t make you any happier about them, they’re a necessary part of the meetings and events industry. That means, just like any traveler, you need to know the lay of the land so you can plan for the best and avoid the worst. The post 2024 Contracts Playbook appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can also be effectively used by meeting and event teams of all sized to deliver better end products. Effective procurement strategies not only ensure that companies get the best value for their money but also play a role in risk management, innovation and corporate social responsibility.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. How safe are your meetings and events? Here are some action items and ideas that you can implement at whatever stage of your meeting you are in, from Choosing a Location or Venue, to negotiating The Contract , or creating a Communications Policy.

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Connect Your Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Despite a remarkable string of growth, the meetings industry may be under a false sense of security. That means compiling valuable ROI reports and other data now in case budget directors once again put meetings in their crosshairs. “I Travel Association Executive Vice President of Public Affairs Jonathan Grella. RISK MANAGEMENT.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can also be effectively used by meeting and event teams of all sized to deliver better end products. Effective procurement strategies not only ensure that companies get the best value for their money but also play a role in risk management, innovation and corporate social responsibility.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many airlines run CSR campaigns meant to offset the carbon emissions that result from air travel. The event industry has long supported green meetings and CSR opportunities and with the incoming millennial population, it will likely do even more to push the CSR envelope. Planning, risk management and security.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 20, 2021

Co-Chair, Meetings Mean Business Coalition. When I became co-chair of the Meetings Mean Business Coalition (MMBC) in January 2020, I don’t think any of us could have predicted the full extent of the crisis we were about to face as a world and as an industry. Fred Dixon. Name : Fred Dixon. President and CEO, NYC & Company.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 30, 2020

The group is addressing health and safety, community, global ecosystems, reskilling the industry , innovation, digital transformation , advocacy and risk mitigation. Destinations International’s “We’re Here to Help” recovery campaign was designed to unify the meetings, events and travel industry. Preparing for Return to Meeting.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2024

Early in his career he began working on press trips for the French president and prime minister, and found his childhood passions fulfilled as he traveled the world and discovered new cultures—“witnessing where global decisions were made and the main actors involved.” From there, he began to travel the world to promote Connect DMC. “I

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Our 16th Annual Meetings Industry Forecast included five travel trends that show staying power: 1. More tools to manage travel risk will be available. Attendee costs will grow in some places. Alternative accommodations are going mainstream. Alternative accommodations are going mainstream.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2018

travelers have become accustomed to hearing scary travel advisories for other countries when those locales have experienced natural disasters, terrorist attacks, potential government disruption, increases in crime and/or disease, etc. Be aware, this new system replaces the department’s previous Travel Warnings/Alerts.

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SevenEvents

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

the power of incentive travel is an ever-evolving innovative platform that satisfies an innate desire for immersive and transformative experiences that, if done the right way, help an organization meet or exceed its business goals. any successful incentive travel program starts by asking the right questions. travellers.

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GEVME

JANUARY 26, 2021

Almost all broadcasted sports matches, the Google I/O Meet etc. Hybrid events have become extremely popular because of travel restrictions, regulations and lockdowns which force people to stay back at home. Going hybrid enables lesser people to travel to the venue, so lesser overall carbon footprint.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 25, 2021

Meeting professionals today are risk managers. Best-efforts clauses stipulate that the meeting producer will try to get attendees to stay at the hotel but doesn’t guarantee a minimum. If the company banned travel, that same company can’t use the travel ban to trigger force majeure. Reasonable Care.

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