All Seated

MARCH 8, 2022

Even as in-person meetings make a return, clients have come to expect virtual venue tours. It’s important for venues to have a way to virtually bring clients into an event space while also being able to design layouts and plan events in real-time without meeting in person. . In 2012, we were in black and white.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 12, 2017

Mexico City and Madrid firms have been awarded a contract as a private joint venture to manage the convention centers of Los Cabos and La Paz in Baja California Sur, the lower half of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. The meetings and events industry is a fundamental complement to diversify the tourism product of both destinations.

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Quickmobile

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

On cruise ships, you don’t have it unless you remembered to pack it for the meeting. Being firm and ensuring the wording of your speaker contract outlines what speaker readiness entails can save you from having to wake up a hungover speaker! One just never knows what unexpected (sometimes comical) surprises can pop up for you!

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 19, 2016

The flooding in Louisiana is being called the worst natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, leaving at least 13 people dead and driving tens of thousands more from their homes in and around Baton Rouge. So your meetings and events business hasn’t really been disrupted? How are things going?

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 20, 2018

Over the next 30 years, the hotel operated under several brand names (Centre Hotel, Ramada, Park In…) until 2003 when Accor hotels Group took over the management contract under the Ibis brand. The transformation that took place in 2012 is a direct result of few years of research and 5 million pounds investment.

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 30, 2018

I originally contracted with Trace3 in 2011 to produce their annual EBC (Excellence Bracing Conference) and the first Outlier Award Gala. We execute exceptional meetings and events that achieve business objectives and exceed expectations—all with seeming easy and efficient. Not only by size but by scope of the event.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 2, 2018

C2 MTL — now known as C2 Montréal — was launched seven years ago, sparked by the desire of two friends, Jean-Francois Bouchard, co-founder of the Montréal-based Sid Lee creative agency, and Daniel Lamarre, CEO of the Cirque du Soleil entertainment company, to reimagine business meetings. And it’s happening faster than we can realize it.”.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s an issue that increasingly weighs on the minds of meeting professionals in the wake of terror attacks and mass shootings in crowded public gathering places. Throughout the show, we have regular meetings so that everyone is on the same page. It should be a top priority for every meeting, show, conference, and event.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

MPI’s Meetings Outlook 2018 Summer Edition planner responses indicated that while “66 percent predict favorable business conditions, only 3.1 percent of respondents claim contract negotiations are becoming more complex. In 2012, in Aurora, Colo., What does your contract say about safety and security protocols?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

In fact, a frequent comment voiced by meeting planners responding to Convene ’s 2016 Salary Survey was that they wished they were allowed to work from home more often. And while telework can “contribute to work-life balance for those with caregiving responsibilities,” according to a 2012 U.S. I could have done this from a home office.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2016 survey.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

The Towers Watson 2012 Global Workforce Study found that even though about half of employees wanted to stay with their current employer, most of them felt that they would have to take a job at a different company in order to advance their careers.”. Louis next month. Spoiler alert: This phenomenon is not confined to the office.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

in meeting and event management. Most meeting professionals are familiar with Certified Meeting Planner certification, which was launched in 1985 by Washington, D.C.-based One aspect of the industry you won’t learn much about yet in the CMP curriculum is the virtual meeting. What changed? Let’s do Planner Education 101.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Brandt Krueger: And it actually goes all the way back to October 2012, I didn’t remember it was that long ago. And so already back in 2012 is when PSAV acquired Swank. So it was 2012. You can negotiate these contracts. But it’s in the contract is exclusive provider and that was non-negotiable.

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Attendees can easily schedule one-on-one meetings via chat or video conference. Event planners can also enable one-on-one video meetings between attendees based on shared interests and goals. With Hopin’s matchmaking feature, sponsors can also request one-on-one meetings with attendees who match their criteria.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

So, Smart Meetings interviewed Dale Hudson, knowledge and event director for IMEX, about the importance of sustainability and the new features that will be added to the event this year. Why are sustainability and green practices important to the meetings and events industry?

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Attendees can easily schedule one-on-one meetings via chat or video conference. Event planners can also enable one-on-one video meetings between attendees based on shared interests and goals. With Hopin’s matchmaking feature, sponsors can also request one-on-one meetings with attendees who match their criteria.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 20, 2018

Founded in 2012 by Jason Lemkin, SaaStr is the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. That's the way that our community comes together to network and meet in-person, so events have become a much larger focus not only from the promotional demand gen side of things but also logistically.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meeting planners face a growing stressor in an otherwise healthy industry. There is a lot of good news in this week’s release of the third edition of Development Counsellors International survey, A View from Meeting Planners: Winning Strategies in Destination Marketing. meeting destinations for the first time.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The first strategy meeting was with the city and the city leaders,” said Colette Jones, Destination Cleveland’s vice president of marketing. You’re dealing with a lot of hotels that are great partners, but they don’t have meeting space.”. Today was like I described at my morning meeting — it’s like the first day of school.

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