Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

www.thedillylondon.com/sustainability. Newly independent West End London hotel, The Dilly, has just been presented with the international Green Key award – the leading standard for excellence in the field of environmental responsibility and sustainable operation within the tourism industry.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 27, 2022

The Meetings Industry Association has launched a range of new sector-specific certified training courses to assist the professional development of those working in business meetings and events and to support individuals new to the industry.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Jayden Klinac, founder of For The Better Good, a New-Zealand-based sustainability company, speaks to the 140 attendees at a Feb. Tourism New Zealand committed to planting a native tree in New Zealand for each attendee. The sustainability focused AIME Hosted Buyer Breakfast on Feb. 17 AIME Hosted Buyer Breakfast in Melbourne.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2022

Visit Greater Palm Springs in Rancho Mirage, California, appointed Bruggemans director of sustainability and community engagement. Over the last 17 years, she has garnered experience in hospitality, event, food and beverage, and business management. Runyon brings 10 years of venue administration and events experience.

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All Seated

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Wondering how to make your meeting and event venues more sustainable? In this article, we dive into the topic and share 5 tips for making your meeting and event venue more sustainable. Sustainability. It’s a big buzz word in events and meetings, especially for venues and their implementation of “green” practices.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 12, 2020

“There is no playbook for this” was a sentiment shared by Jill Delaney, president and CEO of Discover Albany , during Albany Capital Center’s webinar on events in a post COVID-19 era. This sentiment brought industry professionals together to discuss what future events might look like. Tourism took a sudden, grueling hit in March.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Oceandiva London is set to be the UKs first CO2 neutral events and hospitality venue on the River Thames. Launching early 2023, it is set to be the hottest opening of the year and will set a new standard for sustainability venues in the UK. It’s owner and operator, Smart Group, is an industry trailblazer in sustainable events.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Convention centers are a big part of the meetings and events industry. That’s where the smaller rooms, or breakout rooms are attractive to the event planners. You see, quite often with larger groups the event planner is tasked with providing smaller meeting rooms as well as a meal function. Pretty much every city has one.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 2, 2022

The flexible Pavilion indoor event space at the Javits Center in New York City opens onto an outdoor terrace. The Convene editors have each chosen three trends from Wunderman Thompson’s report and connected them to meetings and events. The site offers food preservation methods such as pickling and fermentation, and innovative recipes.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2022

Serendipity 3 at The District Food Court in Oceans Casino and Resort. Read More : Sustainability, Regenerative Tourism and Getting Back to Business in Atlantic City. What’s most evolving here, though, is the infusion of over $85 million in property developments in the guest rooms and food and beverage offerings.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Food festivals deliver celebrity chefs, cooking demonstrations , and virtually unlimited food and beverage options to hordes of hungry attendees in cities across the United States. Use this calendar of culinary celebrations to inspire your next trip, or patiently wait for a premier local event to begin.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2023

There is much to explore, from big-ticket events, top attractions, award-winning restaurants, and Canada’s leading business sectors. The center is recognized as top-of-class by meeting and event organizers around the world and has hosted over 21,000 events during its four-decade history.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Earlier this year, the World Food Travel Association published a list of the top 10 predictions for the food tourism industry in 2020, drawn partly from changes brought on by COVID-19. Delving into the roots of the foods that we eat in the U.S. can bring up parts of our history that are messy and uncomfortable.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has, today, published the latest version of its eGuide with major revisions to the catering section and updates to the disability section, all downloadable from the AEV website. The eGuide is essential reading for venues, organisers, exhibitors and supplier companies.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As the events industry continues to navigate the COVID-19 crisis, the Events Industry Council (EIC) has started releasing a series of guides for different industry sectors that will be updated regularly as more information on containing the spread of COVID-19 becomes available. Amy Calvert.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2023

discussions to a “Belong-a-palooza” to a filmmaker workshop, fresh topics will complement evergreen sessions such as event contracting and meeting security, for a lively educational agenda. Coordinating the behemoth task is Tahira Endean, head of programming and a self-described “total event nerd.” From generative A.I

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Switzerland is a premium country for meetings and events. Further, it has the lowest VAT rates in Europe and a high commitment to sustainability. Commitment to sustainability.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Encore Global hosted “Break Free, a journey of transformation” which invited guests to take part in an interactive survey focused on the sustainability efforts at IMEX while touching all the senses in a dramatic LED-enhanced space. Events Industry Council to Update CMP Criteria. at the iconic resort. “At

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Changing the culture throughout the hotel has been a key priority and we have spent a great deal of time over the years working on the business’s values, brand and strategy; building on our passionate people, excellent service, innovation and sustainability.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2023

There is much to explore, from big-ticket events, top attractions, award-winning restaurants, and Canada’s leading business sectors. The center is recognized as top-of-class by meeting and event organizers around the world and has hosted over 21,000 events during its four-decade history.

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The Planner's Lounge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We feature wedding and event planners from around the world with many different levels of experience. We are excited to feature Ireland wedding and event planner Michelle McDermott today! Years Working in the Event Industry: 25+. Years Owning Your Event Planning Business: 20 years. Welcome to our “Day in the Life” series!

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2023

Getting Pa’ina by Ocean off the ground required the young son to venture around the island to the various vendors that typically supplied local hotels and started assembling community agricultural boxes in the form of meal kits and to sell them throughout the community at a reasonable rate to help sustain local vendors.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

For an all-inclusive, team-building experience or a welcome-back event that aims to ameliorate pandemic frazzle, a chartered ship has advantages, among them “high space-to-guest ratios that create a comfortable travel experience, free of long lines or crowds in public spaces,” as noted on Seabourn’s website. Budget Friendly Group Travel.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 8, 2022

Kim has been in events and luxury hospitality sales for 10 years and most recently worked at Highgate hospitality as its area account director for groups. OVG360 , Oak View Group’s sustainability-focused venue management division, named O’Dell president of venue management. Previously, O’Dell was president and CEO of Events DC.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Encore Global hosted “Break Free, a journey of transformation” which invited guests to take part in an interactive survey focused on the sustainability efforts at IMEX while touching all the senses in a dramatic LED-enhanced space. Events Industry Council to Update CMP Criteria. at the iconic resort. “At

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2019

Dana Edmunds/Hawaii Tourism Authority). Meeting planners who hold events at the convention center have numerous options designed to increase efficiency and sustainably handle event-generated waste. million square feet of event space, including a 35,000-square-foot ballroom and a 2.5-acre Green Building Council.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It’s clear that our food systems will need to change — and change radically — if we are to safeguard the planet and feed a growing population. The good news is that new approaches, new partnerships, and new resolve — spurred on by the urgent threat food waste poses to the planet — are changing that. What can be done? Here’s how.

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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. H: Meeting or event design.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 30, 2023

A quest to find sustainable event experts leads to an emerging wine region in California’s Central Coast It’s not your imagination. All of these are laudable steps in a world that is getting hotter and impacted by more extreme weather events every year. This is more than a sustainability moment for meetings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

On the sustainability journey, it’s essential to ask questions along the way. Event professionals should scratch beneath the surface of attributes and accreditations to ensure climate-friendly claims are credible. We look for evidence of procedures and governance behind their sustainable activities. How are they communicated?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Editor’s note: We are dedicating the November-December edition of Convene fully — our first single-topic issue — to the climate crisis, and what the business events industry is doing to address this global challenge. The event also comes with a “built-in dilemma,” Lopez said — the toll the event itself takes on the environment.

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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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Smart Meetings

JULY 5, 2022

Meet with Momentum Boston, the second installment of a new event series by Marriott that began this June, continued the brand’s mission to educate meeting and event planners in its redevelopment projects—from convention resorts to spaces to food and beverage—and to empower planners amid a booming return to meetings.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

When Kimberly Smith was reviewing attendee feedback following the 2016 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference & Expo, she kept coming across the same complaint: The event’s F&B options had left attendees with a bad taste in their mouth. We got slammed on our evaluations.

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Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2018

As an event planner, the last thing you want your attendees to feel is that your event could have been held in any city in the world, and they wouldn’t have noticed any difference. Adding local flavor to an event helps to create an experience that sets it apart from any other your event goers have been to.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2022

Freeman EMEA , the London-based global events leader, welcomed Megson as managing director of the company. A dedicated sustainability advocate, Megson also helped launch Isla, a sustainability-focused events organization, and was a leader on its Board of Directors. Katharine Degoma and Anna Jaszczyk. Nicolas Dubort.

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