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. Mind your money with battles over escrow deposits to suppliers and more room to negotiate venue commissions. Leisure Travel. Business Travel. NOT Industry Surveys.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 24, 2017

The experts at venue sourcing and event management company Conference Care have some suggestions (and a detail checklist) for making the most of these essential tours. The true test starts before you arrive at the door of the venue. Try to make your site visit at the same time of day that a delegate would be travelling to the site.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 9, 2021

Several years ago, Jeremy Smith, a sustainable tourism writer, speaker, and consultant, saw an opportunity to help the travel industry recognize the role it could play in addressing the issue. “We For in-person events, Smith thinks that big venues can be part of the solution. “A That also is driven by customer demand, he said.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 19, 2024

Rhanee Palma Rising global temperatures impact not only the health and safety of participants, but meeting design and site-selection strategies, said Rhanee Palma, CDME, operations and events manager for the Davis, California–based UC Davis Air Quality Research Center (AQRC).

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All Seated

MARCH 12, 2019

Here is what the research means for venues: Takeaway #1: Belt-Tightening Still on the Horizon. What is unstated, but still likely in the crosshairs of belt-tightening, is the pressure for organizers and planners to reduce both the cost of time and travel associated with conducting in-person venue site visits. The answer?

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 27, 2017

health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years. 5 Things Venues Need for Seamless Med/Pharma Meetings with Presenter Pat Schaumann. However, the initial implementation has not only affected attendance numbers at U.S.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With an extensive history in film and event production, Trademark SiteSelect applies a creative and technical lens to each location, helping companies select and secure the most effective venue, at the optimal price, at the desired time. . We are turning this global knowledge into a stand-alone service in Trademark SiteSelect.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2019

Cities lower on the overall rankings have the opportunity to promote themselves based on key buyer decision factors such as ease of access and venue availability — as well as regional scientific and economic expertise, according to the white paper. “To In addition, respondents are placing greater emphasis on the ROI of events. “In

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

“That’s the first time we’ve done it for an actual exhibitor,” Hansen said, “not the organizer, nor the venue.” The Biggest Culprit Of all the factors that contribute to an event’s carbon footprint, more than 80 percent is going to be air travel, Hansen said. Then we go to the venue and we say, ‘Okay, what data do you have?

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Milestone Events Group

JANUARY 6, 2021

Not to mention if you’re coming in from out of town to be there for your friend’s special day, you can factor in travel costs on top of all that. . Travel: YES . Like all other guests attending the wedding, all travel costs lie in the hands of the bridesmaid. Bridesmaid attire: YES .

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The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

Seek venues that have embraced mobile check in, online ordering and other technologies, and where the staff-to-guest ratio remains high. With the inflation rate currently reaching 8.5%, food, travel, shipping, hotel and labor costs are all escalating. Work with hotel partners and other vendors to understand their weak spots.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Event destinations and venues, for example, rely on customer feedback to shape their future development plans. Greto, who has experience sitting on a number of CABs in the travel and tourism industry, knew that there might be challenges engaging board members. Among those goals is to rise to the top of planners’ site-selection lists.

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Milestone Events Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Many couples these days are self-described “foodies” and have often traveled the world. About the author: Milestone Events Group is Northern California’s most experienced Wine Country Wedding Experts & largest event management company providing site selection services to multiple locations throughout Sonoma County.

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International Institute of Event Management

MAY 26, 2014

Event Management Companies: Explore destination meeting spaces, hotel space, venue options, and other event ideas on Cvent's website, here: [link]. Just type in your zip code, and they can help with planning your event at a special venue, restaurant, or special landmark. For a complete list of state websites, click here: [link].

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

While the idea is to spotlight individuals, more than one participant chose to submit multiple nominations for the same destination or venue — meaning they wanted to recognize everyone who worked on their program. Nominated by Dawn Amaskane, CMP, Director of Meetings and Travel, American Osteopathic Association — “Dawn is amazing.

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Milestone Events Group

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Planning a wedding in Hawaii provides you with an abundance of fantastic venue options. The good thing about Hawaiian weddings is that you can have it as small and intimate as the couples only or find a venue that can accommodate hundreds of guests. It’s a proper destination wedding without the expensive to travel abroad. .

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Connect Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

From there, it was all hands on deck to “roll out the red carpet” for the site-selection team, says Losinski. The site visit was very personalized. We had expert tour guides at the venues. Spotting the potential partnerships, he began working with the Columbus CVB to submit a lengthy application. and Seattle. 13-19, 2016.

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

They need a venue that is serious enough to promote an atmosphere of education and learning and has all the appropriate facilities to do so. 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.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2016

Site selection is a critical step in event planning , and site visits are crucial to the process. Seeing the venue in person will help you ensure that the venue and accommodations will meet your requirements and provide attendees with a great stay. Choose a destination with great transportation infrastructure.

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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 the behemoth venue no longer feels so spacious. “During that period,] events in our facility generated $1.1 billion in regional impact and $23.9

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

From start to finish, the responsibilities involved with a meeting planner career are endless, from site selection to venues, from set-up to speakers, from contracting service companies to tear down and on and on the list goes.

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Capterra Event Management

JULY 19, 2016

The blog from popular enterprise event software Cvent is divided into categories so you can peruse based on your interests: social media, site selection and budgeting, association tips, meeting and event intelligence, planning how-tos, and strategic meetings management. It also includes rankings of top meeting hotels and destinations.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

Depending on your meeting location, it may be necessary to travel with or contract security teams. Transportation plans help planners identify how they’ll manage the movement of participants from the airport to hotel to meetings and offsite venues and if additional requirements, such as visas, might be required for attendee travel.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2017

Have a conversation with your contact at a potential venue about their prior experience with LGBT-friendly events and any diversity training the staff has completed. It starts with site selections—being aware of city and state policies, including laws that could be discriminatory,” Clapes says.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Much of that has to do with a growing perception that — in light of mass shootings in malls, office buildings, churches, schools, and other public spaces in the United States, and terror attacks like last fall’s in Paris, which specifically targeted event venues — conventions have been lucky. Andre Lico. All of the above,” Dunn O’Neal said. “At

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Much of that has to do with a growing perception that — in light of mass shootings in malls, office buildings, churches, schools, and other pub-lic spaces in the United States, and terror attacks like last fall’s in Paris, which specifically targeted event venues — conventions have been lucky. Andre Lico. All of the above,” Dunn O’Neal said.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Choose a great destination and venue. With outdoor dining and entertainment space Avenida Houston, major convention center renovations and hotel openings, Houston did its best to prepare to handle the influx of travelers. Take a few ideas from the Super Bowl, and you will have attendees buzzing about your event as well.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 8, 2020

2022 Beware the Public Wi-Fi Network: 6 Ways to Practice Cybersecurity While Traveling Many people don’t think about cybersecurity while on vacation. Keep your personal information safe while traveling abroad with these tips. These are the safest places to travel in 2022. properties and resorts. Here’s how.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 18, 2017

20, president-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office, and nearly one million Americans are expected to travel to Washington, DC, to either attend the inauguration or protest it. Last month, a one-guest rental during the inauguration cost travelers nearly $700, on average. history is happening in just a few days.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

From the onset of the site-selection process, collaboration among public, private, and civic organizations was the cornerstone of Cleveland’s effort to attract either of the 2016 political conventions. How did your CVB participate in site visits? Cleveland was one of those cities.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Representatives from all eight cities traveled to Washington, D.C., that February to present to the Republican National Committee’s Site Selection Committee. A month later, representatives from the selection committee visited Cleveland, and the city moved to the next round of the competition.

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