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Destination spotlight Bern, Switzerland: Site visit from 28–30 August 2020 for Event Planners Talk e-conference

The MICE

Between 2009–2011, the property was completely refurbished and reopened in 2011. On the food and beverage side, the hotel has Jack’s brasserie, also known as the ‘Bernese institution’ and is named after the father of one of the previous owners of the Gauer family, a veteran hotelier family in Switzerland.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Respondents outsourced a variety of meeting-related services, and they were most likely to outsource event-supply rentals ( 65 percent ) , app development and deployment (64 percent), other technology services (50 percent), registration (43 percent), and housing (38 percent). 2011 Event-supply rentals. 2007 Event-supply rentals.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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 Heart Attack on a Plate.

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