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Destination spotlight Bern, Switzerland: Site visit from 28–30 August 2020 for Event Planners Talk e-conference

The MICE

Between 2009–2011, the property was completely refurbished and reopened in 2011. On the food and beverage side, the hotel has Jack’s brasserie, also known as the ‘Bernese institution’ and is named after the father of one of the previous owners of the Gauer family, a veteran hotelier family in Switzerland.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. In November, the economic recovery since the 2007–2009 recession was in its eighth year, and “showing little signs of fatigue,” according to Reuters. 2009 Event-supply rentals. TOP OUTSOURCED ITEM, 2007–2017.

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Convene’s 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

recession hit December 2007, through post-recession (mid-2009), to the recovery. Remarkably, some metrics in 15 key areas have held steady during the past decade — for example, meetings and conventions have consistently contributed to around one-third of their organizations’ total annual revenues — regardless of the economy.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Heart Attack on a Plate.

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