SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can also be effectively used by meeting and event teams of all sized to deliver better end products. A 7-Step Process A true process will go beyond RFP sourcing and site selection, contracting and negotiations. Step 6: Meeting Logistics Plan and On-site Execution Blueprint Flawless execution is every meeting planner’s dream.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2019

International Inbound Travel” report, as global travel expanded 6 percent in 2018, the U.S. continued to lose market share, with overseas travel to the U.S. Sacks emphasized that the report did not make a direct correlation between the decline in international tourists and international conference attendees traveling to the U.S.,

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The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

As a result, meeting planners are experiencing short-staffed partners and/or less experienced personnel servicing their meetings. With the inflation rate currently reaching 8.5%, food, travel, shipping, hotel and labor costs are all escalating. Travel Disruption. So how can you prepare? First, adjust your expectations.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These events usually last three to four days, and when you add on travel time, attendees may be gone from their families for a week or longer. If that is the case for your attendees, here is a checklist of things to look for from a venue and the benefits of traveling this way. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

After a year spent moving in-person events to digital platforms and monitoring the shifts in the feasibility of meeting in person, the timelines for holding safe in-person meetings in the future are slowly coming into focus. Virtual Site Visits. I’ve done a lot of Skype site tours. Leslie Zeck.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

Breaking into the meeting planning business takes a mishmash of education, experience and passion. It seems almost everyone I meet lately appears to have an interest in meeting planning and a meeting planner career. Immerse yourself in all things meeting planning.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2022

A new MeetingsNet survey finds nearly 70 percent of planners expect fewer attendees on site due to high airfares, while nearly 60 percent have narrowed their destination options due to potential air delays and cancellations. The other complicating factor for meetings is the potential for schedule changes along with delays and cancellations.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 28, 2021

Smart Meetings got a sneak peek at the Event Leadership Institute’s (ELI) opening general session of their upcoming Business, Design & Strategy Summit on June 3, The State of the Industry: Where We Are With In-Person Events. For the next 3-6 months, many corporations aren’t holding meetings due to company travel restrictions.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

The head of Mastercard’s events “gave us their high-profile internal staff meeting to test this because their leadership wants Mastercard to be the most sustainable company in the world,” Riggs said. “We Going deeper into assessing the meeting space includes such considerations as, “Did they bring stuff in? Are they shipping stuff out?

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 19, 2019

A healthy number of meetings-industry companies made the list, and the rise of unique experience providers shows what your attendees are excited about. There are a healthy number of meeting and event planning companies on the list, check out the slideshow for a sampling of privately held companies with impressive growth rates.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Travel Association estimates that visa processing delays have cost the U.S. Travel Association estimates that these delays, primarily affecting visitors from countries including Mexico, Brazil, and India, have cost the U.S. When it comes to site selection for future events, Gal-Yam is adding visa processing times to his checklist. “We

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

The Event Leadership Institute’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit , held virtually on June 3, invites meeting and event professionals to chart their course for the future. So where does that leave you? Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security and CNN national security analyst will share tips for moving ahead.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 30, 2019

For meeting professionals, these nerve-pulsating newscasts could be creating extra stressors, as those items might also influence our conferences, such as weather that grounds planes or sicknesses that prevent travel. Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With meeting season back in full swing, hotels are busy servicing corporate and association programs while their sales teams are sifting through the requests for proposals for business events set to happen in late 2023 and throughout 2024 and beyond. Every RFP is unique,” she says. We can never provide too much information,” Pearman notes.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 5, 2024

More Trailblazing SoCal Female Hospitality Executive Stories Smart Meetings reached out to some other storied Southern California hospitality executives to learn lessons from their journeys about how we can welcome the next generation of leaders. The seemingly heady, endless flurry of events, travel, entertainment, always at their finest.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

November 11, 2016 – Smart Meetings, the leading media company and most trusted resource for meeting professionals, was awarded two Eddie Awards and two Ozzie Awards at the 2016 Eddie & Ozzie Awards by Folio in New York City. 1 resource for meeting planners,” says Marin Bright, CEO and founder of Smart Meetings.

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All Seated

MARCH 12, 2019

. To get to the heart of how the needs of planners and organizers are changing, we dug into PCMA Convene’s recently released 28 th Annual Meetings Market Survey. So how can meeting venues best connect with those who prefer online searches and other digital marketing tools to guide site selection choices? The answer?

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Pamela Wike Boyd, CMP, 33, works in Silver Spring, Maryland, as senior manager of meetings and events at The Solid Waste Association of North America. I also manage the pre-show selection process, including contracting, site selection and visitation. My interest in meetings and expo grew very quickly.

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Endless Events

JUNE 2, 2020

For those who can’t travel due to disability, for those who are all the way across the world and, in this case, for introverts. In fact, she’s meeting planners’ go-to expert in Canadian hotel site selection, helping hotel sales connect better with planners. And arguably, it becomes even more important.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Key Takeaways: Milestones like the return of leisure and business travel and full-capacity restaurant dining rooms will precede in-person events. Leisure Travel. Leisure travel will return first, and when air and hotel numbers start going up in decent numbers, that’s a strong indicator. Business Travel. Reverse Hybrids.’

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The SiteSelect team brings first-hand knowledge of optimal event cities, hotels and special lodging, live presentations and production, entertainment and designed experiences, food and catering, access and travel, and optimal seasons. Once target dates and cities are identified, Trademark manages the entire RFP process.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2017

For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. I set up all the site visits for them and make sure they are treated like gold.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 9, 2021

Ke wrote: “It has now become clear that meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift.”. For most associations, hosting meetings and conferences fall into their regular operations. It can change the suppliers it works with and how attendees travel to it.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Rising hotel and airline costs , along with increasing demand for more and longer meetings is pressuring planners to make critical choices to stay in strict budgets, according to a new study by American Express Meetings & Events. Internal meetings land on the lower end of the spectrum and incentives are the most costly.

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Connect Your Meetings

JUNE 7, 2019

His goal, which he has been working on for months—and taking meetings about, naturally—is to place the spotlight on the industry through reality television. The two shows he visualizes focuses on different facets of travel and events. Not surprising to anyone who knows Bezdjian is that he has more than one idea.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. Shane Hannam Reed Travel Exhibitions’ IBTM appointed Hannam portfolio director. Brandy Hudgins Hudgins has been named sales manager of small meetings for Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB).

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

These issues could cause business confidence to wane and group-business travel is most sensitive to this. Event registration platforms and management software hold a goldmine of information: names, business titles, personal/business email addresses, phone numbers, travel itineraries and reservations and more. Data Protection.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 27, 2017

As she presented a session at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) most recent World Education Congress, titled “The Future of Healthcare Meetings,” Pat Schaumann made a telling comment. health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2019

Brexit popped up as both a threat and opportunity for the events industry in the new “Europe as a Destination for Meetings and Conferences” study. meeting buyers and sellers in different industries. Photo courtesy of London & Partners). Event Tech. In addition, respondents are placing greater emphasis on the ROI of events.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 24, 2017

Try to make your site visit at the same time of day that a delegate would be travelling to the site. The ability to see and hear what is being presented is critical to a successful meeting. Conference Care New Business Manager Gary Hutton, suggests asking to talk to the audio/visual team during a site visit. “A

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But at the same time planners also want a venue in a location that their attendees actually want to travel to – that offers some fun options after the day’s serious work takes place. Its almost endless array of spaces includes classrooms, meeting rooms, large gymnasiums, theaters -- even a Sports Arena.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. J: Marketing.

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Planner WIre

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Travel adds up in many ways. It can be measured in Dollars, Euros, or Rupees and in other ways like miles, meals, or meetings. All have a cost and all have ramifications that meeting and event planners need to consider for the attendee or budget.

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Planner WIre

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Travel adds up in many ways. It can be measured in Dollars, Euros, or Rupees and in other ways like miles, meals, or meetings. All have a cost and all have ramifications that meeting and event planners need to consider for the attendee or budget.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Among them are stats on such things as crime rates, entertainment offerings, cultural offerings, and economic vitality — factors which directly or indirectly impact site selection decisions for events. has hired the DMO Travel Portland to do their marketing. cities, focusing on 27 criteria.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2016

Meeting and event professionals, particularly those planning group trips abroad, can learn from these suggested measures. Site selection is a critical step in event planning , and site visits are crucial to the process. The post 4 Lessons Event Planners Can Take from 2016 Rio Olympics appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future? Despite the presence of the 2.6

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