Connect Your Meetings

JULY 27, 2018

With an abundance of blockbuster openings across New York City, 2019 will truly be a monumental year,” says Fred Dixon, NYC & Company president and CEO. The city’s hotel supply stands at 117,300 guest rooms and through 2020, the pipeline includes another 121 properties across the five boroughs, bringing total rooms to at least 138,000.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The wait is over… the 2020 edition of Event Buyers Live (EBL) will take place from November 23-25 at a location to be revealed next month. The date change to November has been implemented after feedback following the 2019 event was unanimous.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

GL events has secured a new three-year contract with Grandstand Media Ltd to support the Horse of the Year Show. The partnership was launched at the 2019 HOYS event, which took place at the NEC Birmingham earlier this month, and saw GL events installing temporary grandstand seating in the TopSpec Arena for over 1,500 visitors.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Evolution Dome, the international leader in temporary inflatable event structures and solutions, is on target for a 60% growth in business in 2019. We have an exciting rest of the year ahead working with our distributors on many new installations across the world and look forward to what 2020 brings.”.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Grass Roots will provide these services for Sibos’ annual events in Toronto 2017, Sydney 2018, London 2019 and Boston 2020. The post Grass Roots awarded three-year Sibos contract appeared first on Event Industry News. Julie Yorke, […].

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

VFS Global has been named an official ticket reseller for Expo 2020 Dubai to be held in the UAE between 20 October 2020 and 10 April 2021. Mr. Sanjive Khosla, chief commercial officer, Expo 2020 Dubai, and Mr. Zubin Karkaria, CEO, VFS Global Group, signed the contract on 20 October 2019 in Dubai.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Launched in July 2019, Cadre is compliantly simplifying event staffing and management from onboarding to contracting to payment. A fee is only applied if staff is contracted. Cadre is shortlisted for Best Workforce Management Technology at Event Technology Awards 2020. And, it’s free for planners to post events.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

As a 2019 15 Over 50 honoree, Longo discusses his passion for the events industry. Specific improvement I’ve made: Prior to my involvement, there was no formal process for the collection and execution of organizational conference contracts. Today, all conference contracts are sourced through Experient.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

Let’s face it, being on either side of the table in hotel-contract negotiations is tough these days. Planners are in a hotel-market mess, with limited availability, high food costs, and short-staffed properties, many of which are still trying to pull their bottom line back from the trash after being closed for months in 2020.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In 2019, FAMP drew 1,500 attendees and 140 booths. They gave us three options: Terminate our original contract and they would return our deposit with no penalty, Reschedule the event in 2020 with new contract terms; or. Postpone to 2021 with the same contract terms.”. 2020-23 that requires face coverings.

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Event Industry News

MAY 14, 2020

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the decision by a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the organisers of Coachella over their alleged violation of anti-trust law through the restrictive radius clause it places in its artist contracts. District Court Judge Michael Mosman in March 2019.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. Once the contract has been signed, the tough talk doesn’t stop. Choices, Choices. Her trick when using numbers: Use data to tell a story.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It has topped of the list of challenges identified by planners in Convene ’s Annual Meetings Market Survey for years, including in the 2017 and 2020 surveys, conducted in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and in our most recent survey (to be published in a special Convene November Forecast issue).

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

An accolade attributed to the successful delivery of its GIGS Barricade across many major festivals in 2019. An accolade attributed to the successful delivery of its GIGS Barricade across many major festivals in 2019.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

Flight disruptions have become the norm rather than the exception, and when things go wrong–as they so often do now–we are at the mercy of the airlines’ own Contracts of Carriage, rules written by and most assuredly for the airlines. consumer complaints were already 603% higher than in November 2019. In these situations, the U.S.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For additional key findings from the 2020 ITII survey or previous-year data, visit [link]. This marks a shift from 2019, when company sales and profits were top-ranked benefits,” Harris said. The forecast for incentive travel over the next two years is mostly sunny with a chance of tighter budgets and an abundance of hand sanitizer.

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Event Industry News

JULY 25, 2019

This year, as the contract enters its 10th year, organisers of the festival took the decision to upgrade audience seating throughout the festival, to offer greater comfort for spectators. We’re already looking forward to 2020.”.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In 2020 and throughout this year, their Amplify Event Series digital events offered continuing education credits for finance and accounting professionals which have been content-driven, meaning no expo, no networking. Only one sponsor canceled its agreement when the 2020 in-person event was moved online.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 27, 2020

4 Tips for MeetingProfs Filing 2019 Taxes in the Year of Coronavirus. The United States Secretary of the Treasury postponed the deadline for filing 2019 federal tax returns to July 15, 2020 with no penalties or interest due to disruptions connected to coronavirus. COVID-19 Considerations for Meetings Contracts.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 8, 2022

UNITAS Wholesale Trade Show, which recently extended its contract to five years, will take place this week on March 9 – 10. The UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event will welcome120 exhibitors, 1500 delegates and is the first time it has taken place since before the pandemic in March 2020. It plans to return in 2023.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 2, 2022

She joined MVT in March 2021 on a freelance contract to coordinate The National Lottery’s Revive Live and will now report directly to MVT CEO Mark Davyd. Jay and Sophie both became freelance coordinators in April 2020 and worked to support venues in NW England and London respectively as part of a wider regional team until October 2021.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 8, 2020

In her new role, Louise will be responsible for setting and executing the growth strategy; through contracted wins in the private sector, enhancing the existing customer experience, supplier engagement, driving business profitability and raising UK awareness for the company.

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Event Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

33% of consumers say their top life priorities and values have changed as a result of the challenges and opportunities faced in 2020. Brands have made significant business shifts and developed new products and services as a direct result of challenges faced in 2020. Source: EventTrack). Source: Pulse Survey). Source: Pulse Survey).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once a legally binding contract is in place, it sets the stage for easier conversations,” said Dustin Arnhem, senior vice president of sales with Visit Baltimore. Diverted 45% of all waste from landfill in 2020. ” The proof is in the pudding: Passenger arrivals surpassed 2019, with record arrivals May-Sept 2020.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 19, 2021

The poll of 289 individuals with a history of attending live events found that respondents went to a staggering 5000+ indoor and 1200+ outdoor live events in 2019, from gigs and festivals to football matches and book launches. million in 2019, so there was always going to be a huge demand from the disabled community to return to live events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Our enquiry levels are the same as they were in the early part of March 2020 and only 20% short of what there were at this time in 2019,” says Michael Begley, CEO of venuedirectory.com.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bookings for conferences, meetings and training events at Wyboston Lakes Resort for 2022 are currently over 140% ahead of 2019, alongside a record number of large events from leading pharmaceutical companies taking place this Autumn. New business has increased by 266%, compared to 2020, and is up by 14% on 2019.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2020

The HBAA annual Brexit survey in June 2019 revealed that 78 per cent of the sector believed Brexit had slightly affected business, up from 36 per cent in the previous year. On prospects for 2020 and beyond, the industry is cautiously optimistic. According to the 2019 HBAA annual Brexit survey, 18.7 Future business outlook.

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Event Industry News

JULY 8, 2020

It takes account of the COVID-19 environment and global economic contraction predicted by the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development over the rest of the year. The research involved 675 survey respondents from 59 countries.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Even as we sit here now, the last three to four meetings that have been in San Francisco this year have matched their 2019 attendance, which not many meetings and events are doing anywhere in the country, or they’ve broken their all-time records. Finally, we have great deals for those that are signing multiyear contracts at one time.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. However, the FBI reports active shooter events increased 33 percent in 2020 compared to 2019 and 100 percent compared to 2016. We’re moving into year three of what will most likely be a continuation of the dreaded ‘P’ word: pivoting.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 31, 2020

I lived through contracting it and it sucked. After all, this is the year 2020, the same numbers used to benchmark ideal eyesight. I was on a call recently where an educator suggested there will be more opportunities in the event space in 2022 than there were in 2019, but they will have different job titles. New Opportunities.

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EventSource

APRIL 14, 2020

Alejandra and Jimmy Our original wedding date was May 23rd, 2020, but the global pandemic had different plans for us. Sajni and Saba Photo Courtesy of Scarlet O’Neill Saba and I have been together for 8 years and were supposed to get married on May 17, 2020. There were lots of tears and of course I said, “Yes!”.

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Decibel Management

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Remember 2019? Ah, good old 2019. And then, remember 2020? Contraction rates improved. Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Watch: The most emotional moments at Tokyo 2020. Back when there were large-scale events held. So, you’d make plans to attend. You’d buy tickets. You’d make travel arrangements. Officially, $15.4

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 10, 2018

Plymouth Argyle fans are to get the stadium they deserve as the main building contract for the redeveloped grandstand at Home Park is signed. Work is already underway under an enabling contract and will continue seamlessly to completion under the main contract. The £6.5m+ build will deliver a high quality stadium.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Editor’s Note : Created in 2019, San Diego State University’s Meeting & Event Management Master’s Program was created in partnership between Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and San Diego State University’s L. The year 2020 was a difficult time to be in this business. Deanna Roberts.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

Still, by the end of 2019, almost every event had a mobile app, and some were pushing the envelope with features like interactivity, chatbots and AI networking. Every couple of months, the number of event apps out in the world began to, ever so slightly, contract. “How could you replace a printed conference booklet?

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