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Summer 2024 Travel Trends with Meaning

Smart Meetings

With these tips and recommended venues, your summer meeting or event will be memorable, meaningful and even give back to the community. New Orleans is an ideal destination for cultural tourism and visitors will have a difficult time choosing what to eat, see and experience with all of the global influences in the city.

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Authentic Experiences 101: A Hot New Hotel and Restaurant in San Francisco

Smart Meetings

The wow experience is an intimate gathering at a memory-making new hotel that includes private dining at its restaurant, which is the latest hot spot in that food-obsessed city. In 2018, his Pinoy Heritage won Best Pop-up from the San Francisco version of the website Eater. To wit, the wow destination is San Francisco.

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Cannabis Moves Into the Mainstream Meetings World

Connect Your Meetings

An October 2018 Pew Research poll showed that 62% of Americans approve of legalizing pot use, with nearly three-fourths of millennials giving weed the green thumbs-up. He books the venues for clients and arranges for them to meet with cultivators who supply the pot. It’s no surprise, then, that cannabis events have taken off. “I

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2 Programs Refine Recipe to Reduce Homelessness

PCMA Convene

Over more than two decades, the Conquering Homelessness Through Employment in Food Services (CHEFS) program, operated by Episcopal Community Services (ECS) in San Francisco, has trained hundreds of food-service professionals, many of whom have gone on to work for the city’s top restaurants. What Can I Do?’.

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

The MICE

When the idea to stage an international, multi-day conference in Bern was born back in 2018, we didn’t know how things would turn out, and that we’d need to change our plans upside down. The SCIB can provide contact details, organise site inspections and give recommendations for venues and suppliers in an unbiased manner.

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Currency Research’s Event Team Faces Trial by Fire

PCMA Convene

Currency Research’s event team, including Shaun Ferrari, a managing director, hit the ground running with wildfires forced them to change the location of the Americas Cash Cycle Seminar in November 2018. At 7:00 that night, we confirmed the venue and sent an email to all attendees about the change. At that hour on Friday, Nov.

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Hawai’i Convention Center Commits to Conservation

PCMA Convene

Dana Edmunds/Hawaii Tourism Authority). Over the past two decades, environmental conservation has been a key component of operations throughout the Hawai’i Convention Center, a world-class global meeting venue centrally located between East and West on O’ahu in the Hawaiian Islands. Green Building Council.