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Are Hotels Missing Out as Instant Booking for Meetings Grows?

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20 December 2019: Eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in Abu Dhabi. UNIS Vienna / Flickr Skift Take: As instant booking grows slowly among hotel chains, more boutique venues and co-working spaces are finding traction on digital sourcing platforms.

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Christmas Party Survey indicates late booking cycle

Event Industry News

A recent survey of 126 London corporate event buyers carried out by Venue Search London and the London Christmas Party Show (July 12 th & 13 th at Haberdashers’ Hall, EC1), indicates that the vast majority of companies have yet to firm up their plans for their end-of-year celebrations. Budgets not matching price increases.

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Five key trends set to define the venue and events industry in 2019 & beyond

Event Industry News

2019 is set to be a big year for the events industry, which according to the Events are GREAT Britain report is now estimated to be worth a staggering £39.1bn. To complement this, providing healthy food options, to help sustain energy levels and keep attendees focused is also hot on the agenda for 2019. There are some 1.3m

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Make Venues books more than £1m of meetings signalling a strong recovery for the industry

Event Industry News

Make Venues has seen more than £1m of confirmed meetings business across its three sites, since the unveiling of the UK roadmap in March. The group believes that it is this investment that have contributed to the £1m figure, which includes bookings across training, meetings, conferences and hybrid events.

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‘The number of small meetings has continued the same since the pandemic. They are 82 per cent of all meetings, highlighting again the potential benefit of online booking – Instant Book’

Prestige Events Magazine

Small meetings accounted for 82 per cent of bookings going through the venuedirectory.com in the last 12 months, a year when volumes have exceeded 2019 levels,” reports Michael Begley, managing director of venuedirectory.com. Michael Begley, managing director of venuedirectory.com. The snowball is starting to roll.”.

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Venue Spotlight: Yorkshire Event Centre & Pavilions of Harrogate

Event Industry News

Confidence in events is increasing every day, with more bookings and high levels of enquiries filling us with optimism for a great future. Both our venues are surrounded by green spaces and are well ventilated, so we can manage events safely in the current climate, alongside thousands of free car parking space. million to the economy.

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Christmas Party Survey indicates late booking cycle

Prestige Events Magazine

A recent survey of 126 London corporate event buyers carried out by Venue Search London and the London Christmas Party Show (July 12 th & 13 th at Haberdashers’ Hall, EC1), indicates that the vast majority of companies have yet to firm up their plans for their end-of-year celebrations. Budgets not matching price increases.