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New Privacy Regulations for Event Data Coming in 2023

MeetingsNet

state’s standards being enacted in 2023. Blood reviewed the history of the EU’s GDPR as well as California’s effort in 2018 to enact its own data-protection regulation. with new state regulations effective as of January 1 in Virginia; July 1 in Colorado, Connecticut, and California (expanded from 2018); and December 1 in Utah.

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Showlight 2023 Postponed

Event Industry News

It is with great sadness that the Showlight Committee announces the postponement of Showlight 2023. The popular quadrennial networking event was due to take place in Fontainebleau, France from 20 th – 23 rd May 2023. As a result, the directors of Showlight Ltd have decided that we need to postpone next May’s event.

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Outstanding start to 2023 follows record year at Wyboston Lakes Resort

Prestige Events Magazine

Wyboston Lakes Resort has made an outstanding start to 2023 following a year of record results in 2022. The Resort already has contracted bookings for more than 50 per cent of its 2023 budget, and that is greater than it achieved in the whole of 2018. These are expected to grow strongly again in 2023.

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Six Smart Moves at The Westin Grand Cayman

Smart Meetings

In this edition of Smart Moves, get to know the six recent notable appointments making up the professional event management team at The Westin Grand Cayman Islands Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa. John Dillis John Dillis Heading the team is Dillis as director of event management.

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Report: World’s Top Meetings Destinations in 2018

SmartMeetings

Those are among the findings of 2018 Special Destinations Report, a joint project of destination and event management companies Pacific World and Access that profiles top destinations around the world and details why they attract groups. The ERS Congress and the 120th Motor Show have also increased demand for 2018.

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

Communities sprang up around shared interests and events. The graph below shows page views per month on www.conferencesthatwork.com for the fourteen years between 2009 and 2023. The old Twitter was an essential place for me to discover, join, and cocreate the #eventprofs and #assnchat communities.

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Five New Event Planning Trends to Watch in 2019

Attendease

The new year is well under way, and all of us in the event space are watching out for the new trends that’ll continue to influence our work throughout 2019. It could be that shrinking budgets are occurring because events are being asked to compete against the greater number of channels in today’s marketing landscape.

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