Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2024

What to expect at Business Events Industry Week 2024 The meetings and events industry calendar is a crowded place, filled with must-attend association conferences, regional gatherings and our own projects, especially in the summer and fall. The group will meet April 9 at ASAE’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 16, 2019

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today announced the launch of a £250,000 competition to improve broadband connectivity for event venues that have conference facilities. Conferences. It is open for six weeks and will end at 23:59 on Friday 27 th September 2019. The sector is currently worth £32.6

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For professional associations and meeting planners, membership does have its privileges. As 2017 gets underway, what are the top trends to watch out for if you’re in the meeting planning industry? Is 2017 a buyer’s or a seller’s market for hotel supply growth? Members expect year-round interaction with their association.”

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

When the idea to stage an international, multi-day conference in Bern was born back in 2018, we didn’t know how things would turn out, and that we’d need to change our plans upside down. From a four-day live event format, the conference turned into an e-format and was live-streamed from Bern, Switzerland from 28–30 August 2020.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

With more than 2 million square feet of combined meeting space, and nearly 16,000 guest rooms in more than 100 hotels, the professional staff will help you find the perfect fit for your next meeting or event. > Collecting proposals from hotels and meeting facilities matching your criteria. >

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SmartMeetings

JULY 15, 2020

Destinations International ’s 2020 Virtual Annual Conference streamed over two days vividly illustrated the challenges and upside of the state of what the organization dubbed The Great Interruption—a pandemic , civil unrest , massive unemployment , a recession and a giant cloud of sand from the Sahara. Funding Priorities. Make a Difference.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 14, 2018

Academic conferences are very important to the careers of professors and researchers. Conferences also provide networking opportunities with other professors, publishers, universities and vendors. Attending one, two or three conferences a year can make a huge difference in an academic career. Look for hotels with family suites.

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Event Industry News

MAY 9, 2018

The results of the “Meeting- & EventBarometer 2017/2018” reveal the importance of digitisation and internationalisation for the German meetings, conference and events sector. Attending meetings and conferences also plays an important role for the 2.2 Hybrid meetings flourish. percentage points.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Initially developed by SearchWide Global in partnership with Destinations International and the International Association of Venue Managers, the program provides hands-on work experience to ethnically diverse applicants in three career tracks: meetings and events, destination hospitality, and sports. Travel Association.

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Connect Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Featuring a dramatic location on sparkling San Francisco Bay, Berkeley is an inspiring destination for meetings, events, and celebrations. Meetings and conferences gain focus and status from Berkeley’s university-town climate of thought leadership. There’s also the Berkeley bonus.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whittlebury Park luxury hotel, conference centre and golf course in Northamptonshire, experienced a robust growth in enquiries and bookings for corporate meetings and events in August and September this year, 95 per cent more than in May and June. The resort offers fully customisable flexible 24-hour or day delegate packages.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2020

Two bodies of research highlight planners’ challenges and potential attendees’ preferences when it comes to meetings. In a late June webinar that drew more than 700 corporate and association meeting planners, 64 percent of attendees responded that they expect their organizations to return to holding in-person events by January 2021.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Companies have more money for meetings, but planners have less funds to host the events. Meanwhile, hotels are charging higher rates while supply struggles to keep up with demand. The new normal in events is incremental growth, says American Express Meetings & Events in its 2019 Global Meetings & Events Forecast.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 17, 2017

The Olympics is essentially one of the largest meetings on earth. According to the International Congress and Convention Association’s (ICCA) 2016 rankings, the number- one city for international association meetings is Paris. The Athlete Village will be on the UCLA campus, which has several venues for meetings.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

ABPCO (the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers) has announced details of the content line up for the Festival of Learning taking place from 1 st -9 th December, sponsored by GES. Register here – [link]. Registration is open at [link].

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

Standups — or short meetings — can be a great tool for teams who are having to shift skills in order to meet the needs of digital event planning. If they have a live meeting planned in 2020, Colangelo said, they see that they must take it down — like a house, brick by brick. What is the plan: Hit pause? Punt to fall?

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 30, 2019

When old man winter rears his ugly head, the best thing you can do to boost your conference attendance is to head to Florida—right? We recently had our regular business—conventions, meetings and overall leisure—analyzed, and surprisingly even to us, business is basically at the same percentage for each of the four quarters,” says Bloemendaal.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

With dozens of beautiful ships mirroring the best hotels in the world, readily accessing bucket list destinations in favorable cost structures and enhancing opportunities for strong relationship-building, more groups are turning to cruises to create memorable events. A Ship for Everybody. “We’ve Cost and Inclusiveness.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Are you one of the more than 1,000 association meeting professionals attending the California Society of Association Executives (CalSAE) Holiday Spectacular at Sacramento Convention Center this week? The conference is a once-a-year chance to see all of your friends and find new solutions. At the Conference.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

APRIL 16, 2019

You have fallen in love with a destination and want to hold your next meeting there. Are attendees paying for conference attendance or are their companies? Green and healthy meetings are on the rise, as well as family-friendly destinations. Hotel Room. Transportation To and From the Conference. Attendee Costs.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

From recently renovated hotels, to our newly built Huntington Convention Center; Cleveland is a hot spot to host your event! of meeting and event space, 30 breakout rooms and a 32,000 sq. of meeting and event space, 30 breakout rooms and a 32,000 sq. Our flexible space is perfect for any meeting or event!

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This is a follow-up to the May 2018 article, 8 Low-Cost Tips for Making Conferences More Family-Friendly. Severine Bennet agreed to share, in her own words, how International Society of Political Psychology invested in supporting families at the association’s 2019 Annual Meeting. Family Friendly from the Start.

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Event Industry News

MAY 20, 2020

The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) has announced that both the Meetings Industry Association (mia) and Meetings Professionals International UK & Ireland (MPI) have re-joined the partnership as full members. The association has more than 70 chapters and clubs across 75 countries.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

We’re thrilled to welcome meeting and event attendees back to the City by the Bay. San Francisco’s welcoming people, its unbeatable food scene, and its endless activity regularly lead to record-breaking meeting attendance. And in the past year, a dozen new meeting and event spaces have opened throughout the city.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Winners received complimentary PCMA membership along with registration to both PCMA Convening Leaders 2018 this month and the 2018 PCMA Education Conference in June. Meeting Planner, Association of American Medical Colleges. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? Alexandra Adsit. Washington, D.C.,

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2017

How do you become an independent meeting planner? Annette Suriani, CMP AMS Meetings Solutions Fairfax, Virginia Time as an independent planner: 5 years. Annette Suriani I had always worked directly for an association here in the D.C. It had never been done before and they had no one in-house to plan it.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2016 survey.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Mexico City wants planners to know it is open for business, and ready to host your meeting or event—even as clean-up from September’s 7.1 38,479 hotels rooms (four-star and above) at 600 hotels. of meeting and convention space. of meeting and convention space. of meeting and convention space, and 403,915 sq.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

“Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Every year, when we compile the latest Meetings Market Survey results, we compare them to the previous year’s survey. Those disclaimers aside, Convene ’s annual Meetings Market Survey continues to be recognized as an important piece of benchmarking research in the meetings industry. In last year’s survey: +2.9 percent. ›

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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