Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Rising hotel and airline costs , along with increasing demand for more and longer meetings is pressuring planners to make critical choices to stay in strict budgets, according to a new study by American Express Meetings & Events. Internal meetings land on the lower end of the spectrum and incentives are the most costly.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2017

When it comes to Convene ’s Annual Meetings Market Survey results, words can speak louder than numbers. Each year, we get a sense for the big-picture direction of the meetings industry as we pore over your individual answers to open-ended questions like this one: What’s the number-one challenge facing the meetings industry? .

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 16, 2018

G2 Crowd is the leading website for online business software and service reviews, where Event Mobi ranks as a High Performer on the Summer 2018 Mobile Event Apps Report. Event speakers are essential to a successful event marketing strategy. Event marketing is a powerful strategy for B2C and B2B marketers, and for good reason.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A twenty-year hospitality veteran, Casserly was most recently director of marketing in Baltimore, Maryland for Four Seasons. He has worked in various leadership roles at Four Seasons since 2000, such as assistant food and beverage manager, director of sales in multiple locations and director of marketing, among others. Glaucia Canil.

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Conference Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

However, making “green” claims could get you in trouble with the Competition and Markets Authority. The advert stated they were the airline with the lowest emissions. In 2018, they were also one of the top 10 biggest polluters in Europe. The Advertising Standards Agency found that the data omitted some of the major airlines.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 14, 2016

based airlines such as Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines began offering all in-flight entertainment for free. In 2018, Southwest plans to increase bandwidth again. The post Southwest Aims for Fully Wi-Fi Equipped Fleet appeared first on Smart Meetings. Over the last few months, major U.S.-based

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 23, 2017

The time has come to say goodbye to perhaps the hippest airline on the market. On March 22, Alaska Airlines announced its plan to eliminate the Virgin America brand, with an official termination to occur in 2019. The merger made Alaska the fifth largest airline in the country with 1,200 daily flights and nearly 300 aircraft.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2018

Here are the “need to know” items: airline employee steals plane, TSA tests new security tech, Virgin Atlantic and Delta cozy up over drinks, and SFO’s busiest day. Airline Employee Steals Plane. In other words, a marketing job well done. The post From the Flight Deck: 230 Craft Beers appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

JULY 21, 2019

Costa Rica is a rising-star destination for meetings and incentives, offering a brand-new convention center in the capital city of San José, more than 33,480 hotel rooms throughout the country, and a variety of activities to keep delegates engaged and entertained. The Costa Rica Convention Center is located just 6.2

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

IBTM’s much anticipated IBTM World Trends Watch report has been unveiled today to a global audience of meetings and events professionals at IBTM World in Barcelona. The report paints a picture of a changing world but one with myriad exciting opportunities for the meetings and events world to seize.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Costa Rica is a rising-star destination for meetings and incentives, offering a brand-new convention center in the capital city of San José, more than 33,480 hotel rooms throughout the country, and a variety of activities to keep delegates engaged and entertained. The post Costa Rica: Naturally Inspiring Meetings appeared first on Blog.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2019

By Danielle Curtis, Exhibition Director – Middle East, Arabian Travel Market & IBTM Arabia. In April 2018, the MENA Hotel Benchmark Survey Report revealed that Abu Dhabi attained the highest hotel occupancy figures of any Gulf Cooperation Council city, with an impressive rate of 87.9% — climbing 4.7% year-over-year. Czech Republic.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Event coordinator was the 5th-most stressful job in 2018 on one list, meaning ‘it’s more important than ever’ for event pros to focus on their well-being. Event coordinator was ranked as the fifth-most stressful career in 2018, according to CareerCast.com , right behind police officer and airline pilot. By Boardroom editors.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

HTC’s 500-some delegates included investors, tour operators, travel agents, and representatives from the airline, hotel, food, airline, and travel-retail sectors. WANDERLUST   More than 30 countries were represented in the exhibit hall — not surprising when you take into account the growing market for halal tourism.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 13, 2018

The marketing comes as a long-term project to high-speed rail moves ahead slowly. More than 19 million people fly into Manchester Airport, which serves 60 airlines flying to and from 200 destinations. There are more than 100 meetings and conference spaces in the city’s limits.

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Connect Your Meetings

MARCH 23, 2018

“About 55 million world citizens declare at least some lineage to Scotland,” brags Richard Knight, Director of Marketing, The Americas Business Events, at Visit Scotland. Capitalizing on that rich aspect of the historic country’s past, Visit Scotland launched a fittingly innovative marketing campaign late last year. Also, a strong U.S.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 18, 2017

The CVB estimates that direct spending from conventions and meetings was $754 million. The largest overseas markets were China (478,000 visitors), United Kingdom (353,000 visitors) and Germany (273,000 visitors). The Bay Area’s largest airport connects nonstop with 77 cities in the United States on 14 domestic airlines.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 8, 2020

Meeting professionals are left wondering about the very foundation of their missions. That sense of comfort will require meeting, or even exceeding, health guidelines , so attendees can be confident they are as safe, maybe even safer, on a planned and tightly managed incentive trip than they would be at home.

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Bizzabo

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Discover what leading marketers from INBOUND and SEMrush are planning and predicting for 2019. Email Marketing. Meet the Panelists. Aleksandra Panyukhina, Head of Event Marketing, SEMrush. Aleksandra manages everything from budgeting to reporting for SEMrush’s event marketing strategy. Email Marketing.

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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. Moving parts. Extending the Brand.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? The Boston Consulting Group projects the global market for robotics to reach $87 billion by 2025. Personalized Marketing. Why I Have My Eye on AI. Janelle Shane. David McMillin.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? The Boston Consulting Group projects the global market for robotics to reach $87 billion by 2025. Personalized Marketing. Why I Have My Eye on AI. Janelle Shane. David McMillin.

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Bizzabo

APRIL 7, 2020

When VICE and its numerous subsidiaries aren't producing top-notch print and digital content, they're probably hosting a stellar live event or planning the next great marketing activation. In 2018, the brand hosted the first-ever Broadly Astrology Conference for 150 astrology enthusiasts. Plus, themes make event marketing much easier.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

is where great minds gather for meetings in the technology, biotech/pharmaceutical, education, and medical sectors. Meeting planners will find major sustainability advancements, transformative public transportation initiatives, and access to the country’s leaders and lawmakers in D.C., by ridership (SmartAsset, 2018).

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Think of events that feature everything from mundane items like dishwashers and containers, to uber-modern event marketing with drones and augmented reality. Photo source: Eventive Marketing. Photo source: On Board Experiential Marketing. So hold on to your seats, corporate event planners, for 25 crazy creative themes.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

border in Tijuana has increased international attendance at San Diego meetings substantially, despite President Donald Trump’s declaration of a National Emergency, local experts report. We are a significant meeting destination with a large international attendance,” Terzi said. million in 2018 and CBX is expecting 2.6

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

The planned use of AAMs comes during an increased need for more efficient transportation to move people and cargo amid a high demand for air travel, coupled with persistent issues and delays that have plagued airlines and carriers alike. “I Two-day meetings and incentive meetings could triple for me!”

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 2, 2017

And one major force driving this growth: meeting planners. “Additionally, we continue to work very closely with airline partners, the travel trade and the hotel sector to create compelling transit programs for stopover-specific markets such as Australia, USA and the Far East,” he said. Dubai snaps up meetings awards.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

.’ As the chairman and cofounder of Austin-based advertising agency GSD&M, Roy Spence has been the creative engine behind campaigns for Southwest Airlines, Walmart, BMW, and a range of other brands. My dad would always tell me to be extra kind to everyone you meet because everyone has some kind of problem. If you can ?nd

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2017

It’s gotten bad enough that Meet Puerto Rico — whose destination has taken a major hit on travel because of the misperception that it’s been ravaged by the Zika virus — organized a forum on May 1 called “Traveling in These Times.” How is the meetings and travel industry responding to this perfect storm of challenges?

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