MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On November 16, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor announced a new limit on the number of H-2B nonimmigrant visas, increasing it to 64,716 for fiscal year 2024—double the original limit. million—150,000 above the September 2019 number. within the past three years.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 22, 2023

Newport-based venue becomes the first in Wales to host the event ICC Wales , Newport’s state-of-the-art convention centre, has been confirmed as the first Welsh venue to host the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress in its current format, which will take place in June 2024.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

– 85 per cent of the show already sold- An incredible 85 per cent of exhibiting space for this year’s IBTM World has already been sold, with numbers significantly ahead of both this time last year, and 2019. From the MENA region Jordan, Morocco and Abu Dhabi have considerably increased their stand space.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 27, 2020

hotel demand and room revenue is unlikely to happen until 2023 and 2024, respectively, according to the slightly downgraded STR and Tourism Economics forecast released at the 2020 Hotel Data Conference on August 13. In fact, full recovery for U.S. lower-cost hybrid alternatives. smaller exhibit footprints.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 15, 2024

cities in Q4 2023 was only about 93 percent of what it was in Q4 2019, group rates are nearly 14 percent higher now versus 2019. The result: In 2024, big-city hotels are seeing more than six percent growth in event-related revenue compared to before the Covid pandemic. Across all U.S.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 27, 2024

According to the “ 2024 Speaking Industry Benchmark Report ,” sustainability comes in tenth on a list of 17 relevant speaking topics — between technology and human rights — that organizers are planning their events around this year. We’ll start with whether climate change is being incorporated in the program content.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 25, 2022

Two-thirds of venues say they will recover to 2019 meeting revenue levels in 2022 or 2023, with Danish and Australian venues predicting the fastest recovery, according to IACC’s annual Meeting Room of the Future Barometer 2022 , which was released today.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 3, 2024

There’s no doubt that any association’s leadership team would be supremely happy if their 2023 annual meeting had 20 percent more attendees than in the pre-Covid benchmark year of 2019. In fact, the temptation might be to aim for similar growth with the 2024 event.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2024

percent) in 2024, compared to a strong 2023 that saw pent-up demand unleashed after the Covid pandemic. In fact, group business ( see chart ) has recovered to the point that more group rooms were sold in October 2023 than in October 2019. The result: Less negotiability for meetings. percent) and guest-room rate (3.0

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Plus strategies for managing increased business travel costs in 2024 Business travel and event cost are not increasing as steeply as they were in 2022, but they’re still going up, according to 2024 Business Travel Forecast , a new study by CWT and Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). billion traveling across the globe.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

2024 looks set to build on those figures, with a 52% increase in revenue for confirmed events in Q1, in contrast to January – March 2022. Since launching in 2019, MK-7 has offered corporate clients and their guests the chance to go behind scenes of the high-adrenaline and fast paced world of F1.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

At Mobile World Congress 2024, the rapid advance of artificial intelligence is on display through “spatial computing” applications that will affect meetings, including augmented reality, virtual reality, and 3D teleconferencing.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 25, 2024

In March, urologist Ashley Winter took to X (formerly Twitter) to share that she wouldn’t be attending the American Urological Association’s 2024 annual meeting, May 3 – 6, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas. “My The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) held its 43rd Annual Pregnancy Meeting, Feb. 6-11, at Moscone West.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 14, 2023

As organizations build their budgets for next year’s meetings, they shouldn’t expect any relief from the increasing cost of airfares, hotels, and other services, according to the recently released 2024 Global Business Travel Forecast from CWT and the Global Business Travel Association. percent increase in 2024 to $174.

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Canadian Special Events

MARCH 19, 2024

Starting its 2023 North American tour in Clayton, North Carolina, on September 7, HYPROV has now extended its reach due to overwhelming demand, with performances scheduled through April 21, 2024, in Toronto. The ongoing tour, which spans from 2019 to 2024 across Canada and the U.S.,

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EventMB

JUNE 2, 2022

The high watermark of 2019 sits at 14,031 attendees for IMEX in Frankfurt 2019. were only lifted the day before the start of IMEX America 2019 preventing many non-U.S. were only lifted the day before the start of IMEX America 2019 preventing many non-U.S. This is the first major international event industry show for many.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 14, 2023

10 medical conferences due to take place at South Wales venue in 2023/2024 ICC Wales , Wales’s first dedicated convention centre, will be hosting a series of medical conferences that will support the post-pandemic recovery of the in-person medical meetings sector and highlight the venue’s pivotal role in the recovery of the UK Meetings Industry.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Google Cloud Next was the latest, which despite having booked Moscone Center for 2024, has announced the show will be held at Mandalay Bay instead. Dreamforce took place in September as planned, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made headlines when he threatened to move the show in 2024 if the street conditions were not improved.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The conclusions evoked a need to focus on balance and belonging in order to drive the industry’s strategic growth through 2024 and beyond, as well as to comprehensively recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the industry’s audience is expected to surpass even 2019 levels in the coming years. billion in 2024.

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Exhibitor Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As the world has continued to be gripped by the COVID pandemic, the recovery of the exhibitions market in 2021 and 2022 has been muted from a global p.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2022

The 44th edition of IAA World Congress was held February 2019 in Kochi, India, long before the public knew the word “Covid.”. Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) reported a surge in demand for in-person events—127 global meetings booked from 2022 to 2024—since Malaysia reopened in April.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 8, 2022

The event will take place again in June this year and is set to return in 2023 and 2024. Exhibition Centre Liverpool has welcomed thousands of visitors after reopening its doors, increasing attendances by 48 per cent (on 2019) and generating £9m in economic impact for the region.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to the Centre’s latest report and accounts, The QEII Centre delivered total revenues of £14.95m for the period 2022-23, equivalent to 94 per cent of what was achieved in its best year of trading in 2019/20 (£15.94m).

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EventMB

JUNE 8, 2022

This visually impressive China National Convention Center, Phase 2 (CNCC-II) is scheduled to open its doors in 2024. Construction on the $2 billion center is expected to begin in 2024 with completion in 2028. Despite the large fire in 2019, construction continues on the New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC) in Auckland.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Hotels are charging more, but profitability is the same as in 2019,” Dominguez said. However, Dominguez believes there will be inflation normalization by 2024. Dominguez encouraged meeting professionals to explain to their stakeholders that when they see inflation decreasing, that doesn’t mean prices are going back to 2019 levels.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

New ideas and technologies set to shake things up in 2024 Our industry declared the pandemic was a long-awaited opportunity to reimage events and brand experiences. Through the challenges of the reopening world and the joy of reunions, our industry mostly picked up its 2019 playbooks and went back to its comfort zone.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

per cent, and predicts that the number of people participating in incentive travel programmes worldwide will grow by 61 per cent in 2024, compared to 2019. The report, written by IBTM Contributor Mike Fletcher, finds that the sector is growing at an annual rate of 12.1

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Trends on Vegas Stays Nearly two-thirds (63%) of those surveyed in the Las Vegas Visitor Profile Study said they were more likely to attend their respective event because it was held in there, a significant boost from 41% who said so in 2021, or 44% in 2019.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

We’re caught between clients whose expectations are stuck in 2019 and hotels that just aren’t going to budge. 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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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

Bookings and prospects for 2024 and 2025 are also very strong. In 2022 its trail blazing Woodlands Event Centre and Willows Training Centre generated their best conference and training performances with sales up 49 per cent on 2019 and up 79 per cent on 2018. Profit was also well ahead of the 2019 total.

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Event Industry News

JULY 11, 2022

From April 2019 to April 2022, the convention bureau has facilitated a 73% increase in confirmed enquiries for meetings, events and conferences, with figures from May this year almost at full recovery from 2019. It’s a very exciting time for meetings and events in Newcastle, with the opening of the brand-new Sage ICC in 2024.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He is the inaugural chapter president for SITE, Northern California Chapter, upon its 2024 relaunch, which he spearheaded following its disbandment several years ago. In 2019, he was awarded the MPI Meetings Industry Leadership Award, and in 2023, PCMA’s Groundbreaker Award as part of its Visionary Awards lineup.

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And while there’s a general sense of optimism, the majority of event marketing budgets are not expected to be fully reinstated to 2019 spend levels until next year, or even 2024 for some organizations. So we tapped five brands for their pro tips on making the most of event budgets in 2023 and beyond.

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Event Industry News

MAY 4, 2022

Geoff Dickinson says: “I just want to say a big thank you to the board of UFI for supporting me to be the president in 2024. I’d be delighted to take on this role in 2024, and delighted to be supporting the executive team in the coming years. I can’t begin to say how flattered and honoured.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2023

She joined the team in 2012 as sales manager of national accounts, and was later promoted to director of citywide sales in 2019. Charlene Lopez Lopez will be executive vice president and chief sales officer for Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau , effective Jan. Lopez currently works as vice president of sales for the organization.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With meeting season back in full swing, hotels are busy servicing corporate and association programs while their sales teams are sifting through the requests for proposals for business events set to happen in late 2023 and throughout 2024 and beyond. Further, flexibility is key to getting responses from hotels.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In its latest report for the West Midlands Growth Company, data compiled by RJS Associates shows that the region’s business events performance in 2022 – which includes meetings, conferences and events held in the West Midlands – was at approximately 78% of 2019 levels.

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