Endless Events

JANUARY 23, 2020

On a more exciting note, today we’re covering MeetingsNet best stories of 2019. Planners Salary Survey 2019” And then the last one is “Study Finds One in Four Tech-Conference Speakers are Women” Hurricane Dorian Affects the Bahamas Unevenly. Because where else would you get the best ideas and insights?

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2024

In fact, group business ( see chart ) has recovered to the point that more group rooms were sold in October 2023 than in October 2019. However, it’s not just competition from other meeting groups that has planners in a tough spot as they negotiate contract terms for their 2024 events.

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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. cultural venue on wheels that can expand or contract; the Observation Deck at Hudson Yards, offering panoramic city views; celebrity chef restaurants and an Equinox Hotel.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Swapcard first entered the United Arab Emirates as the event app provider for Step Conference, the largest experiential tech festival in the Middle East, for its 2019 edition. He said, “The Middle East has a huge economy that’s focused on live experiences, hospitality and AI.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

To find out what changing occupancy rates across the country will mean for booking hotels in the future, CoStar Group Director of Hospitality Analytics Daryl Cronk shared insights from the STARreport , the essential measure of the health of the hospitality industry. That gave everyone something valuable to take home.

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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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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Why is hospitality industry sentiment upbeat even as predictions call for economic downturn? Oxford Economics’ Savelli explained that during past recessions, room demand overreacted, with sometimes twice as much of a contraction as the economy overall. The good news is that travel is well positioned to withstand any downturn,” he said.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 16, 2019

An online reseller of contracted meeting elements launches a week ahead of its industry rollout at the IMEX show in Frankfurt. When meetings are canceled, the group that signed the contract is typically responsible to pay either a flat fee or a percentage of the revenue they were to bring to the contracted supplier. I doubt it."

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

After several years in the hospitality industry with operations such as Trust House Forte, Best Western and Holiday Inn (culminating in the position of Hotel Manager), Zoë Turner joined Trinity House in 2006. On the retirement in 2019 of incumbent manager, Edgar King, she was promoted to Head of Events.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

leisure travel in 2019 at $109.4 Dunn pointed out that the devastation of COVID-19 has hit minority populations in hospitality disproportionally, including higher rates of illness, more business closures and job loss. million jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry were cut at least temporarily over the last seven months, U.S.

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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. 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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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. Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. Deanna Roberts.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism at San Diego State University, earning an M.S. She compares it to an MBA for the hospitality industry. “I Choices range from Contract and Negotiation Specialist to Health Care Meeting Compliance, to Inclusive Meetings Strategist and Emergency Preparedness for Meetings and Events.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Meanwhile, a study from strategic consultancy AMR International has estimated that the global exhibitions market is set to contract by a colossal 70% in 2020. This contrasts with a boom in 2019 that saw approximately 32,000 exhibitions, featuring 4.5 million exhibiting companies and attracting over 303 million visitors.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our interactions are bigger than booths and contracts. BLM put us in the forefront, to bring that urgency to the hospitality community to say, “This affects us,” because there are disparities in employment in the industry that have been highlighted by the tragedy. Our organization is run by volunteers; it is a family.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This marks a shift from 2019, when company sales and profits were top-ranked benefits,” Harris said. While meeting professionals on both sides of the contract were optimistic about incentive travel returning even faster than the rest of the industry, the return to activity was seen as more robust than the full budget return. “We

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QC Event School

JULY 7, 2023

In 2017, I graduated with my Bachelors in Hospitality and Event Management from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. In 2019, I started dreaming of a way I could help people while also incorporating my passions. During that time, I was still in college, so I decided to declare my major as Hospitality and Event Management.

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Social Tables

MARCH 2, 2021

NEW Client Services Get all the support you want for your events because we know hospitality matters. This means that your contract should say what clients will and will not be billed for. For example, the average cost of a wedding in Mississippi in 2019 was $15,475, while the average cost of a wedding in Hawaii was $29,605.

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Skiddle

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The industry has seen the closure of 5,736 hospitality venues over the past 12 months, 31% of nightclubs closing since lockdown, the loss of 35 independent late-night venues every week, the loss of two pubs a day in 2023 and the closure of 118 festivals since 2019. Plus, we’ve compiled them into one article below.

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Skiddle

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The industry has seen the closure of 5,736 hospitality venues over the past 12 months, 31% of nightclubs closing since lockdown, the loss of 35 independent late-night venues every week, the loss of two pubs a day in 2023 and the closure of 118 festivals since 2019. Plus, we’ve compiled them into one article below.

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QC Event School

JULY 7, 2023

In 2017, I graduated with my Bachelors in Hospitality and Event Management from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. In 2019, I started dreaming of a way I could help people while also incorporating my passions. During that time, I was still in college, so I decided to declare my major as Hospitality and Event Management.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 12, 2021

Planning Pod’s all-in-one platform gives new event facilities 20+ easy-to-use tools to set up systems for managing booking calendars, sales, client communications, contracts, billing, payments and more. For example, we closed our staffed commercial kitchen in 2019 because we had been losing money,” said Dianne. “It

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Monique Jeffrey, CSEP/VP of Operations, Bramble Hospitality. Monique has spent the last 10 years as a certified special events professional (CSEP) and the VP of Operations with Bramble Hospitality, helping them run, manage, and grow their two wedding venues, Willowdale Estate and Briar Barn Inn.

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Planning Pod

MARCH 31, 2022

The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic was a nightmare come true for the hospitality industry. Andrea Vallencourt was brand new to the events industry in 2019…and got hit with the COVID-19 pandemic in her second year of business. Forget about growth – staying open was hard enough.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The company pledged to complete construction of Wynn Paradise Park, a 38-acre lagoon to be edged by a casino, hotel and restaurants on the former Wynn golf course in Las Vegas; as well as Wynn Boston Harbor, which is scheduled to open in June 2019. It also recently announced it will build Wynn West, another resort and casino in Las Vegas.

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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.

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EventSource

MAY 20, 2020

“In following the example of the 2019 NBA Champions, Toronto Raptors, we see the wisdom in maintaining an attitude of not getting too low in the bad times or too high in the good times. I know that my company will survive this and we will be stronger and better equipped for business when we emerge.”

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