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Event Trends for 2019–2020

GEVME

Even if your 2018 events made an incredible impression, in 2019–2020, you should learn how to make these experiences even more memorable and impressive. The top 10 event planning trends in 2019–2020. Transformation is the trend that will define the primary direction of event industry development in 2019–2020.

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Cvent’s ‘Top Meetings Destinations’ and ‘Top Meeting Hotels’ Returns: Nashville and San Diego Move Up

Smart Meetings

1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. 1) opened as a new property in late 2020 while other properties in the Top 10—Including Westin Charlotte (No. Orlando has retained its #1 spot this year, after being named the “Top Destination” in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

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3 Ways to Source Smarter in a Sellers’ Market

MeetingsNet

Not only are we in a seller’s market, but planners will also face tighter budgets, higher meeting costs, and less bandwidth. So, what happens when an unstoppable force (supplier price increases) meets an immovable object (meeting planning budgets)? . The best rates, dates, and space in 2018 have already been booked.

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Retailers: Hoteliers of the Future

Smart Meetings

West Elm, founded in Brooklyn in 2002, plans to open a line of hotels in 2020. It does not plan on a subtle transition into the industry, as it has already scheduled six openings, with the first planned for late this year. A post shared by Palazzo Versace Gold Coast (@palazzoversace) on Dec 20, 2018 at 12:57am PST.

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New Restaurants in Las Vegas

SmartMeetings

By late 2018, Monte Carlo Resort and Casino will rebrand as two hotels, NoMad Las Vegas and Park MGM. When it opens in 2018, rumors are that the Manhattan glitterati haunt Cipriani and L.A. of new, technologically advanced, flexible meeting space across four stories. They should all be “soup-ed up” by 2018.

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How Meetings Benefit from Sporting Events

SmartMeetings

Most host cities plan growth projects because of the Games, but Los Angeles is a unique scenario in that all these projects were in the works regardless of the Olympics coming to town. added 3,000 new hotel rooms and has a total of 9,200 new rooms scheduled to open by 2020 in Downtown L.A., In 2017 alone, L.A.

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What’s New in Atlanta?

SmartMeetings

A grand plan is in motion to make Atlanta’s downtown district even more conducive to hosting every element of citywide events as well as small and mid-sized meetings. The 2020 Vision initiative will deliver the following additions, expansions and renovations within the next three years. 8, 2018, Super Bowl LIII on Feb.