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Four Business Travel Trends and Forecasts Impacting Events in 2024

Event Marketer

And amid it all, sustainability watchdogs are championing corporate policies that are focused on monitoring their organizations’ overall business travel emissions. percent increase in hotel rates. Bleisure’ is influencing how your event attendees are booking travel.

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The Story Behind the 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Awards

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings founder Marin Bright built her career in hospitality, first in luxury hotels at Mandarin Oriental and then in the meetings and events B2B publishing industry. She brought top experts to the conversation to share secrets for negotiating, feeling more confident and building a network.

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Convening Leaders Preview: Christopher Nassetta

PCMA Convene

It was considered an “also-ran in the hotel industry” — profitable, but its brand reputation had slipped, according to an article in The Washington Post. But more than anything else, he focused on Hilton’s core strength: the company’s team members — a 350,000-plus global workforce. Christopher Nassetta.

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A ‘Watershed Moment’ for Events — and the World

PCMA Convene

COP26 is shorthand for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, a summit which brought leaders from more than 130 nations together to negotiate a global plan to address climate change. It also was the site for negotiations. See “Glasgow’s Sustainable Head Start” at the end of this story.) “We

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16th Annual Meetings Industry Forecast

PCMA Convene

Hotel prices will increase by 4 percent in North America and decrease by 0.6 The United States will continue to outperform the global exhibitions market. And there will be growing use of cashless payments and livestreaming at meetings and events. What’s in store next year? percent in Asia-Pacific. Airfares will be up 2.5

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19 Event Trends That Will Shake Up Meetings & Group Business in 2019

Social Tables

The unprecedented rise in demand for meetings and events will continue this year, with CWT Meetings & Travel predicting a robust 5-10% growth in demand. Meanwhile, late in 2018, CBRE forecasted that hotel supply would peak at 2% gain, stabilizing to 1.9 Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels.

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