Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

Miller is the founder of Zero Waste in DC and author of “ Zero Waste Living, the 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide to a Lighter Footprint ,” as well as the former director of Climate Business at the World Bank Group. She has served as an ardent steward of climate-positive business.

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In 2019, events were widely considered one of the most effective B2B marketing strategies. The post The Impact on Small Businesses From All of the Cancelled Trade Shows by Angela Tupper appeared first on [link].

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Credit: iStock Event organizers are feeling the pinch as industry suppliers, venues and transportation companies rebound from the pandemic. Event venues are raising rates for basic services like electrical, internet, trash management and catering. The need to control costs will also place greater emphasis on proving event ROI.”

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EventMB

JUNE 2, 2022

Organizers reported 9,000 attendees, including close to 3,000 buyers, and 2,300 exhibiting companies taking part, making it the largest event industry trade show to take place since the start of the Covid pandemic. The high watermark of 2019 sits at 14,031 attendees for IMEX in Frankfurt 2019. Restrictions to entering the U.S.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 3, 2022

With live conferences’ comeback, event organizers need to make complex decisions about how to incorporate digital product extensions into their business model. The half who is pursuing hybrid knows that they can’t just go back to what worked in 2019 despite the return of in-person events. The Live Experience.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 1, 2021

We recently held a webinar featuring leaders from two large associations that have held face-to-face events in recent weeks. Most Q3 and Q4, 2021 conferences are reporting attendance numbers that are 40 – 60% below 2019. Events with greater international participation are seeing the steepest declines. Business Model.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And this is from 2019: Singapore FinTech Festival 2019. But fundamentally, we are still dealing with the business of selling booth space: . We are still pretty much dealing with the business of exhibitors paying for a physical space where they can showcase their products and services. Sure, what people wear has changed.

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GEVME

MARCH 15, 2019

When you’re in the events industry, you should know the main event management conferences for 2019 so you can visit them to improve your knowledge and share your own experiences of working long hours while trying to pull off amazing corporate events for your clients. Here they are: January 2019. February 2019.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 3, 2023

Freeman strengthens its corporate presence with an agency pick-up; EventMobi buys a virtual-events platform to boost its hybrid-meeting abilities; and Hopin sells its core products to a videoconferencing competitor. We’re thrilled to welcome Run the World and immerse them in the full value of hybrid events.”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Compiled by analyzing more than $14 billion of group business value sourced through the Cvent Supplier Network in 2022, the rankings highlight hotels, venues, and destinations. This is the first time Cvent has generated the list since the pandemic halted events. 1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2022

Hilton and Marriott’s statistics are looking up after revenue per available room (RevPAR) met or exceeded 2019 levels. Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta attributes the growth of business travel, as “bookings for company meetings strengthened each month of the quarter.” Business and Bleisure Soaring. Rising Numbers All Around.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 8, 2018

There was a theory circulating a decade ago that the tech boom, affecting every aspect of our lives, would sound the death knell for events as we know them. Today we know that all our technological advancement has done is enhance our event delivery and actually propel events back to the top of the communication pyramid.

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EventMB

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Event pricing strategy is a tricky business. Setting the right ticket price can ensure a sell out event. Event pricing is a tricky balancing act that many event planners struggle with, whether it is finding the […]. The post Event Pricing Strategy: The 2019 Guide by EventMB Team appeared first on [link].

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Rising prices for business travelers are predicted to continue in 2022 and through 2023, according to a report, “ 2023 Global Business Travel Forecast ,” by travel management platform CWT and Global Business Travel Association. Cost-per-attendee in 2022 is expected to increase by roughly 25%, as compared to 2019.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

decrease from 2019—and supported 57,933 local jobs. Travel, overseas visitation will likely not reach 2019 levels until 2025. Cincinnati has not yet reached 2019 levels, but its visitation is trending positively. Cincinnati recently held two events in the city: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., s domestic visitation was 18.8

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GEVME

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Taking an active part in growing the MICE industry in the APAC region, we continue to cover the critical event industry events across the region. Today we have a story about Be @ Penang event. Malaysia’s most prominent business events conference returns for the fourth edition this December at the Setia SPICE Convention Centre.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Eventgoers and event planners alike are running full steam ahead in this new day-to-day norm we are all living in with the Covid-19 virus. Over 60 events already committed to the book for 2023 and with dozens of holds in place, the ACC is on its way to not having a weekend free until August. Electric bill aside, that’s a good thing.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

International travel grew gradually in 2021 after the quarantine of 2019, yet 2022 has seen a huge spike. With more countries opening their borders and lifting Covid restrictions, 2022 international travel has increased exponentially since 2019 and progressing towards pre-pandemic numbers. Why the Rapid Growth in International Travel?

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 7, 2023

February and March stats show guest-room rates considerably higher than the same period in 2019. percent lower in February and March 2023 than in February and March 2019—but average daily rates were 14 to 20 percent higher in Q1 2023 versus Q1 2019. Here’s an interesting conundrum: Hotel-room occupancy rates in the top 25 U.S.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 3, 2024

For the Association of Proposal Management Professionals’ annual meeting, financial success comes from being stingy with space but generous with consultation plus pre-event exposure. In fact, the temptation might be to aim for similar growth with the 2024 event. Internally, we started reallocating our time,” he adds. “Is

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Plus strategies for managing increased business travel costs in 2024 Business travel and event cost are not increasing as steeply as they were in 2022, but they’re still going up, according to 2024 Business Travel Forecast , a new study by CWT and Global Business Travel Association (GBTA).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meeting Means Business Coalition (MMBC) will fully integrate under U.S. This move aims to “[provide] greater value to coalition members as business travel and professional meetings and events rebuild from steep pandemic-related losses,” a press release reads. Since its founding, Meetings Mean Business Coalition and U.S.

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Gallus Events

JULY 24, 2019

If you have an events business you simply must start looking at online / digital elements of your event. But where to start with online events? One of the busiest areas for our consultancy this year has been around online events. Here is a link and extended blog post for the session I did in Los Angeles in June.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 4, 2023

With leisure travel strong and transient business travel well below pre-pandemic levels, the number of flights into and out of some big cities are being cut. In a business where fewer than 20 percent of customers once delivered more than 50 percent of total profits, it’s not surprising that those customers received preferential treatment.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

He will lead the sales team and develop and implement strategies to grow the hotel’s customer base, with attention to premier group customers, high-end corporate business and luxury travelers. Greg Redman Greg Redman Redman joins leading Hawaii-based destination and event management company MC&A as director of sales.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 6, 2023

With the cost for just about everything related to meetings considerably higher in the post-pandemic environment, planners will be excited to know this: Big-city restaurants want your business on Mondays and Fridays. Overall, remote work is costing cities billions of dollars in lost business revenue.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In the business events space, there was a realization of the need for being together and we are all determined to build back stronger than 2019,” he said. Wharton organizational psychologist and author of “Think Again,” Adam Grant will talk about how non-conformists move the world forward and challenge the way business is done.

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Event Marketer

JULY 5, 2022

While touring the mega beach activations and chatting with marketing executives, we noticed a key through line: It’s back to business, folks—but it’s also time to celebrate. As Keyana Kashfi, Spotify’s global experiential content & production lead, put it, “2019 was very focused on sales meetings.

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EventMB

JUNE 9, 2022

Event technology company Meeting Play + Aventri announced today the acquisition of event registration company Eventcore. This is one of the few acquisitions announced this quarter following a comparatively busy first quarter and the event tech investment peak in 2021.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

As things currently stand in the events industry, we’re planning events in 2022 as if the COVID-19 pandemic never existed. In-person events are back in all their glory. And to the Event Brew hosts, they often look identical to 2019. She notes that, indeed, some events look a lot like 2019 in 2022.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 25, 2022

saw a decline of $211 billion in business travel spending in 2020, with $97 billion of that loss due to the cancellation of professional meetings and events related travel spending. for convention business so far this year. . million convention attendees last year as in-person events made a full return in June 2021.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

trillion (in 2019 dollars, adjusted for inflation) will be spent on travel in the United States in 2022, but this is still 10% below 2019 levels and 16% below where it should have been in 2022, if not for the pandemic. A self-described “flight attendant” named Kristie Koerbel went viral on Facebook with a post shared over 90K times.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 9, 2022

November’s total domestic meetings exceeded the November 2019 figure, a first in the post-pandemic environment. Research firm Knowland released its monthly meetings and events data this week, and it seems that concerns about virtual meetings strongly affecting the face-to-face segment going forward are unfounded.

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Socio Events

MARCH 16, 2021

5000 franchise, the list spotlights elite companies within the Midwest economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. “We Socio’s growth over 2017 to 2019 is evidence of the digital transformation we are helping to lead across the events industry, and this year and beyond show nothing but acceleration of this trend.”.

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Evvnt

JUNE 6, 2021

As we leaned in to a global pandemic we decided to focus on two areas of our business, publisher growth and product. In May 2019 we acquired Geotix – an events ticketing platform to add ‘Create Ticketing’ to our software offering. Watch the Webinar to clean insights on our vision and how we grew in […].

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EventMB

MAY 19, 2022

That’s right, the best event industry coverage is now even better. Let us explain … Since Skift acquired EventMB in 2019, we have witnessed a dramatic shift in the event industry. Let us explain … Since Skift acquired EventMB in 2019, we have witnessed a dramatic shift in the event industry.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Airlines are updating their business travel programs to be friendlier for groups struggling with last-minute changes, rising costs and reporting requirements. Recent enhancements make managing travel and redeeming rewards for meetings and events quicker and more streamlined. A lot of Covid-era airline changes go beyond business class.

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