Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Accor Survey: “Meeting Expectations: The Future of Meetings & Events” World-leading hospitality group Accor operates a diverse hospitality group of over 40 hotel brands, from luxury to economy. Over one-third of respondents report increases of over 25%, and 80% of respondents expect further spending increases in 2024.

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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. In 2022 this percentage has dropped to 19%.

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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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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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MeetingsNet

MARCH 15, 2024

The latest hotel data finds that rate increases are more than making up for today's meetings market not yet being back to its pre-pandemic volume. 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. Across all U.S. 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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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). In 2022, air travel saw a 72.2%

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 3, 2024

For the Association of Proposal Management Professionals’ annual meeting, financial success comes from being stingy with space but generous with consultation plus pre-event exposure. In fact, the temptation might be to aim for similar growth with the 2024 event.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Las Vegas trends show the city has no plans to slow down The average age of Las Vegas visitors is younger and more diverse than it was a year ago, according to statistics release at a Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) Board of Directors meeting this week. In 2022, the average visitor age was 40.7, as compared to 44.3

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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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Event Industry News

JULY 11, 2022

NewcastleGateshead Convention Bureau has reported signs of recovery for the meetings and events industry in the North East. 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.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 14, 2023

How much will your meetings cost next year? 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.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 20, 2023

Smart Meetings selected a few of the top mentions to highlight initiatives and event spaces that are working to keep the Earth clean and green. of event space, which includes 62 meeting rooms and a 58,000 sq. of meeting space and 1,054 guest rooms. The Summit totals 563,770 sq. column free and divisible ballroom space.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 23, 2022

A shortened agenda plus sessions listed by level of interactivity were designed to deliver more value and set an example for other meetings, says MPI President & CEO Paul Van Deventer. San Francisco was the scene of Meeting Professionals Internationals’ 2022 World Education Congress, held from June 21 to 23.

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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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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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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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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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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

As meeting professionals begin to plan events for 2023, Mike Dominguez, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI), joined Editorial Director JT Long for his annual Smart Chat Live! predictions conversation about the trends meeting profs need to prepare for in 2023. A lot of it is new meetings.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Recognizing the significance of staying at the forefront of the meetings and events industry,” he says, “I pursued the CMP certification as a strategic step in elevating my professionalism within the industry, enhancing my skills, and fostering meaningful industry connections.” And, he says, many of them held the CMP designation.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2022

Meeting professionals are starting to rebook events in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, but continuing waves of Covid and cautious restrictions from some countries are resulting in a slow restart. The 44th edition of IAA World Congress was held February 2019 in Kochi, India, long before the public knew the word “Covid.”.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

-Third best trading year since opening in 1986- World-renowned conference, events, meetings and exhibition centre, The QEII Centre , has announced a remarkable year of business stabilisation and recovery, resulting in the Centre’s third best trading performance since opening in 1986.

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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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EventMB

JUNE 8, 2022

This visually impressive China National Convention Center, Phase 2 (CNCC-II) is scheduled to open its doors in 2024. Its main hall will seat up to 4,000 delegates with 95 meeting rooms, 14 offices and 3 Majlis available. Construction on the $2 billion center is expected to begin in 2024 with completion in 2028.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

Here’s how one meeting professional does it. There are times when planners can get tons of concessions, low room rates, and all the meeting space they need with no rental fees. We’re caught between clients whose expectations are stuck in 2019 and hotels that just aren’t going to budge. Right now is not that time.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

A View from Meeting Planners: Winning Strategies in Destination Marketing , a report by Development Councilors International (DCI), attributed the new priorities to an emphasis on the four Ps—personal connection, proximity, pandemic management and price. “The Meetings are similarly crucial north of the California border.

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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. Every RFP is unique,” she says.

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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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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. The post Smart Moves in Qatar, London and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Lopez currently works as vice president of sales for the organization.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 30, 2022

sent a letter to Secretary Buttigieg with demands that meetings and travel planners dealing with participants missing days at events because of flight snafus might applaud. This is expected to improve to 82% in 2023, and 97% in 2024, before fully recovering by 2025 at 101% of 2019 levels.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 12, 2023

PCMA’s Convening Leaders gathered 3,300 meeting professionals in Columbus, Ohio, for three days of education, networking and some transformative ideas. Smart Meetings was there for a backstage view of what went into the production and brought back tips for planning even more intelligently in 2023. Discomfort, Don’t Dos and Uncertainty.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 27, 2022

New leaders and a renewed commitment to the power of meetings was on display. One of the chief storytellers at the booth was newly promoted Kelly Gleeson Smith, who took on the role of vice president of sales, meetings and events in early October. Some groups are smaller than they were in 2019; others are larger.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s the second time that Team Wales has sought to host Worldchefs Congress & Expo, having previously lost to Singapore by just four votes two years ago when bidding for the 2024 event. The Celtic Manor Resort, in partnership with the CAW and Welsh Government, successfully hosted Worldchefs meetings in 2017 and 2019.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 16, 2023

based global urbanist Greg Clark, who spoke at the IMEX Policy Forum in Frankfurt in May, told Joint Meetings Industry Council’s The Iceberg platform. Cortese said ESTRO will still try to run engagement projects in 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland, and in 2025 in Vienna. As a result, “there’s a new era of choice emerging,” Clark said.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 23, 2017

Meetings professionals can infuse the Olympic spirit into their next event by selecting a venue that has hosted the world’s greatest sporting competition. Spaces can accommodate anywhere from 18 to 250 people for meetings. Spaces can accommodate anywhere from 18 to 250 people for meetings. London, England (1908, 1948 and 2012).

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 2, 2024

Smart Meetings named Johnson a Smart Women in Meetings Hall of Fame Award winner in 2019 and after her book came out last year, she agreed to share the inspiration behind her journey and a chapter of the book that follows. This article appears in the January 2024 issue. You can subscribe to the magazine here.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Last year, 60,000 pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings were held. The theme for the week this year will be Purposeful Meetings: How to Plan with Deeper Meaning, Innovation and Insight in Mind. 2019 Sept. 2024 Oct. The post IMEX Will Move to Mandalay Bay in 2021 appeared first on Smart Meetings. 10-12 Sands Expo.

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