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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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

Here’s what Chicago meeting planners are saying about events in the Windy City, and what’s trending in 2019. Jeff Russell is the conference center director at the Gleacher Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, steps from the Magnificent Mile. Creative Collaboration. Work/Life Balance. Green Eating.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Resort already has contracted bookings for more than 50 per cent of its 2023 budget, and that is greater than it achieved in the whole of 2018. 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.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

The report, called ‘Event Power: A Force for Good,’ looks beyond the traditional measures of event impact – economic value, job creation, increased destination profiling – and focuses on the far-reaching benefits that events bring to communities and supply chains, as well as on matters such as sustainability and future-building.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Adrian Ott (from left), Clare Melton, and Ori Lahav discuss the rising costs associated with planning conferences and events at Convening EMEA 2023. The suggestion to co-locate smaller and larger events in the same location and negotiate venue and hotel contracts together came from an audience member.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The city’s challenges related to homelessness, crime and drugs are part of a combination of factors that are impacting the city’s event business, with a number of big tech conferences announcing historic moves out of the city and to Las Vegas. We still lead the country in sustainability. And the hotels are beautiful in San Francisco.

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Guidebook

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Sustainability will remain important. We saw an increased focus on sustainability within the events industry, and expect that this focus will only continue to increase into 2020. From choosing a mobile app to reduce paper waste to selecting green venues – in 2020 sustainable options will remain a hot topic. .

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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. Hay Festival is a leading festival of ideas, bringing readers and writers together to share stories in sustainable live events across the globe.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

Even the biggest conferences are always looking for ways to improve. Read More: How IMEX Frankfurt Answered Critical Questions for a Sustainable Event. Right now, the contract is through 2025, but we’re already talking about continuing,” she said.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Encore Global hosted “Break Free, a journey of transformation” which invited guests to take part in an interactive survey focused on the sustainability efforts at IMEX while touching all the senses in a dramatic LED-enhanced space. DEI Task Force Marks Starting Point for Improvements. at the iconic resort. “At

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Market and business recovery, the rise of virtual and hybrid events, and the importance of mental health and sustainability were amongst other topics that the HBAA leadership have highlighted in their views. Sustainability opportunities. Market recovery. The HBAA team expect recovery will begin in Q2/Q3/Q4 next year.

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The MICE

MAY 2, 2022

Many guests that we usually invite to corporate events seem to be still in a “Zoom mode”: They need to be on Zoom conference calls all the time even though they are at a live event. But what we are feeling is that many people are not feeling comfortable being in a closed space like they used to in 2019. Can you pivot to online?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Encore Global hosted “Break Free, a journey of transformation” which invited guests to take part in an interactive survey focused on the sustainability efforts at IMEX while touching all the senses in a dramatic LED-enhanced space. DEI Task Force Marks Starting Point for Improvements. at the iconic resort. “At

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Endless Events

JANUARY 23, 2020

On a more exciting note, today we’re covering MeetingsNet best stories of 2019. “And the next one is “From Sandwiches to Centerpieces: Sustainable Meetings Are Catching On” The ninth one is, “What’s in Your Wallet? Hotel Contract Clauses Planners Should Be Using but Probably Aren’t.

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EventMB

MAY 22, 2022

Embrace Sustainability: Use Recycled and Recyclable Materials. At CES 2019, Omron, the electronics company, grabbed the attendees’ attention with a product specialist perched on a second-floor podium who described the robotic demonstrations taking place below. Take the Green Challenge with a Sustainable Booth.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

According to the Fall 2019 Pulse Survey, conducted by Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP), only one-third (33 percent) of planners planned to grow the size of their meetings in 2020, and just 14 percent planned to expand their incentive programs. What does MPI’s Financial and Insurance Planners Community do?

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

On the retirement in 2019 of incumbent manager, Edgar King, she was promoted to Head of Events. She was subsequently awarded a Certificate of Distinction and received the highest mark in her class for her dissertation…’ The Role of Events in the Sustainable Management of Historic Buildings’. ‘It

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Attendify

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

TAMI NEALY: In 2019 Find Your Influence worked with Pizza Hut here in Scottsdale, Arizona, to promote a one-day event. Pizza Hut was promoting a new plant-based meat as well as a round-shaped, sustainable pizza box. Image courtesy of Find Your Influence. TEAM ATTENDIFY: Tami, thanks so much for the fantastic insights.

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Event Industry News

JULY 16, 2019

Walking through the main entrance to All Points East, with an eye out for 2019 tweaks, first up is the X Stage. Record shops and rock ‘n’ roll style ‘shop fronts’ to the bars amplify All Points East’s theme and Spacial has been hard at work to make its method efficient and sustainable. Conferences. Difference a year makes.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 6, 2019

Chefs at the 2018 PCMA Annual Conference in Bangkok serve pasta and other dishes to attendees. Hotels were a recurring topic, as planners noted a decrease in the ability to negotiate contracts, along with pressures associated with lowered commissions and increased competition for space. All material © 2019 by PCMA. Social media.

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