PCMA Convene

APRIL 25, 2024

In March, urologist Ashley Winter took to X (formerly Twitter) to share that she wouldn’t be attending the American Urological Association’s 2024 annual meeting, May 3 – 6, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas. “My I hope professional organizations bear this in mind when they choose conference venues.” 6-11, at Moscone West.

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Planning Pod

OCTOBER 2, 2023

From creating your own business plan to finding the right catering management tools, here’s a step-by-step guide to turn your vision into a reality as soon as January 2024. From there, explain how you plan to build relationships with event planners, event venues, and potential clients (i.e., Here’s how.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

High-tech Approach to Old-world Venue Conflict: Imagine a beautiful old building with vaulted ceilings gilded molding, polished hardwood floors and gleaming chandeliers in the heart of Washington, D.C. New Venue, No Site Visit Conflict: New and unusual venues in remote locations bring their own complexities.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Leading London events venue, The QEII Centre , has strengthened its director team with the appointment of Elena Gurgul as Sales and Marketing Director and EeLain Ong as Finance Director. I can’t wait to continue building on the success of this pioneering world-class venue and am looking forward to making 2024 the QEII Centre’s best year yet.”

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The north London Camden venue is proving that there is a steady growth of confidence in the industry with an increase in a wide variety of event contracts from 2022/23 – 2024. Pressley continued “ With a high calibre of returning clients, it shows that the team and venue consistently deliver well-produced events.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 1, 2024

For 2024, the award went to DeShawn Fitzpatrick, CMP, senior client services manager for Visit Houston. Some planners try to do things on their own, but we have the relationships with venues and vendors so that we can get answers more quickly. So I was charged with reaching out to the hotels and getting them to submit room-block bids.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The venue’s enquiry and booking levels continue to exceed expectations with the year-end forecast for 2023-24 looking even better with turnover expected to hit circa £16.5m. Together with the many multi-year and long-term contracts that we have on the books we are in a fantastic position for the future. “As

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

portfolio, inclusive of etc.venues; the program will launch in the UK in early 2024. Convene has a global network of 39 venues in the U.S. The Convene Refer-a-Friend program extends to the company’s Meeting & Event and WorkPlace products across its entire U.S. and UK across its portfolio of brands, which includes etc.venues.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 1, 2024

Their close partnerships with local vendors and venues will bring a client’s vision to fruition by outsourcing logistics and creative research to local experts. Meeting professionals can pick a venue that’s fabulous for their event, but we have more buying power,” says Diane Lyons, DMCP, CMP, owner of ACCENT New Orleans. “We

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Event Industry News

MARCH 8, 2022

UNITAS Wholesale Trade Show, which recently extended its contract to five years, will take place this week on March 9 – 10. The event welcomed 43,000 visitors when it took place at the venue in November. The event will take place again in June this year and is set to return in 2023 and 2024. Comic Con Liverpool.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract. Read More: Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract During the open Q&A, planners aired frustrations—contracts are time-consuming already.

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Event Industry News

JULY 29, 2022

On 20th July, EMA collaborated with Hire Space on a panel exploring how we can maximise venue relationships to deliver exceptional event experiences in a post pandemic landscape. Our corporates expressed frustration at long response times from venues, with one of our corporates suggesting that this may be due to lighter teams on the ground.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Location: Brighton – Moulsecoomb Salary: £24,285 to £27,131 per annum Contract Length: 12 months Fixed Term End Date: 02/01/2024 Closing Date: Friday 09 December 2022 Reference: CC5014-22-482. This is a full-time, fixed-term post until 02/01/2024 to cover a period of maternity leave. Job-sharers are welcome to apply.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Resort already has contracted bookings for more than 50 per cent of its 2023 budget, and that is greater than it achieved in the whole of 2018. Bookings and prospects for 2024 and 2025 are also very strong. Extensive refurbishment of our venues before and especially during the pandemic has paid off.”

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ePly

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Guide for Event Profs in the Age of Rising Costs Welcome to 2024, where contract negotiations continue to be a critical but dreaded aspect of event planning. As always, negotiating contracts remains a crucial component of success, allowing organizers to maximize their return on investment and deliver exceptional events.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

” — Jessica Connolly , Head of Global Events, Meltwater The above program was interspersed with interesting visits to venues and fun activities (e.g. It was a good year, and I hope that 2024 will be at least as interesting, challenging (in a good way), and fun. Happy Holidays! 2023 book sale! (If

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Event Industry News

MAY 24, 2021

The world’s leading producer of entertainment experiences is set to manage and operate the exciting new 3,500 capacity performance venue at Becketwell Derby, which will be forward funded and owned by Derby City Council. Work on the performance venue is set to commence in early 2022, with handover to the operator in 2024.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Freeman, the world’s largest brand experience company, was awarded the highly sought-after contract for the delivery of exhibition services to Farnborough International Airshow and Farnborough International Limited for 2020-2024.

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ePly

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Guide for Event Profs in the Age of Rising Costs Welcome to 2024, where contract negotiations continue to be a critical but dreaded aspect of event planning. As always, negotiating contracts remains a crucial component of success, allowing organizers to maximize their return on investment and deliver exceptional events.

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Skiddle

AUGUST 12, 2022

Regarding clubs and the live side of the business, we’ve seen venues and promoters from all corners of the UK opting to sign with us, including the coveted 1,000-capacity Leamington Assembly, Plymouth’s multi-faceted events space, The Social, Hull’s infamous Deja Vu, and Edinburgh Hip Hop event, Club Tipsy, to name but a select few. .

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. What hasn’t varied is the desire around the world to visit California for business, pleasure or both.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

With global business travel rebounding and expected to surpass pre-pandemic levels in 2024 , the company is preemptively offering complimentary hotel room block sourcing and contracting services to clients as an extension of that commitment. with a network of 39 locations across nine global cities.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the Coffee Bar Archives: Wake Up and Smell Eight Strategies for ‘Coffee Experiential’ 2024 Food & Beverage Trends to Inspire Your Event Menus How to incorporate it into your exhibit? Tips and ideas: Create that café feel. The team served some 7,000 cups throughout the show. The Turkish Coffee Lady team. Keep it simple.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 4, 2024

Seeking a global footprint, FCM M&E has partnered with Hubli to offer clients an online tool featuring more than 200,000 venues worldwide. Called FCM Venue Finder, the product is based on Hubli’s site-search platform which includes controls for client-booking policies related to cost, sustainability, and other requirements.

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