SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SmithBucklin cited conflicting reports forecasting “that hotel supply growth may outpace demand in 2017, indicating that the association event industry could be shifting from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market for the first time since 2009” or that more hotel mergers and consolidations “could further strengthen their ability to control pricing.”

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Trade Shows 2017 Travel Hotels 80

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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2020 Conference Food and Beverage Hotels 80

Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. It’s a four-day event, and it’s still designed the same way.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As The More Things Change. “It

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