SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The forecast for incentive travel over the next two years is mostly sunny with a chance of tighter budgets and an abundance of hand sanitizer. The forecast for incentive travel over the next two years is mostly sunny with a chance of tighter budgets and an abundance of hand sanitizer. She cited pent-up demand as an indicator.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. The best way to do this is to know your legal responsibilities and liabilities and make sure the contract is suited to the type of venue, location, and event. For instance, travelers may be afraid of the Zika virus, but it won’t get you out of a contract.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Recent research finds luxury travelers shifting their accommodation preferences, while the group segment is running well ahead of the transient-business segment. In fact, group business ( see chart ) has recovered to the point that more group rooms were sold in October 2023 than in October 2019. percent) and guest-room rate (3.0

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. Here are some action items and ideas that you can implement at whatever stage of your meeting you are in, from Choosing a Location or Venue, to negotiating The Contract , or creating a Communications Policy. How safe are your meetings and events? Look for the dates to be announced soon.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A town-hall meeting at the conference identified other resources MPU could help secure, including limited liability insurance and streamlining IATA, CLIA and other travel agent certifications. Bruce reported that four audiovisual companies have agreed to offer rebates to planners when they contract for alternatives to the hotel AV team.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

As a 2019 40 Under 40 honoree, Boyd discusses her passion for the events industry. . I also manage the pre-show selection process, including contracting, site selection and visitation. What I do outside of work: My husband and I love to travel and find unique locations to explore. I’m also into beauty products and blogs lately.

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Planning Pod

JULY 25, 2019

Event management software applications are usually equipped with one or more of the following sets of features: Attendee management – For managing attendee and guest lists , attendee contact information, meal and session choices, travel/room details, name badging and event check-in. Contract Management. And OpenTable.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Launched in July 2019, Cadre is compliantly simplifying event staffing and management from onboarding to contracting to payment. A fee is only applied if staff is contracted. Their nomination for Best Workforce Management Technology is an honored testament to its benefit in the industry. Sponsored Content.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

He will lead the sales team and develop and implement strategies to grow the hotel’s customer base, with attention to premier group customers, high-end corporate business and luxury travelers. She served as Vice President for MPI’s Aloha Chapter in 2019 and is passionate about creating extraordinary guest experiences.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Thanks A2 Events for all the special touches @PGANatl #MeetSmart pic.twitter.com/l7xRWhwOkF — JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) August 29, 2023 Travel Normalizing Not everything could be pina coladas and massages. Travel is normalizing, getting back to patterns from pre-pandemic. Meet Tom and Jerry, 35-year-old flamingo brothers.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

As a 2019 40 Under 40 honoree, Wakefield discusses her passion for the events industry. . For 2019, we are taking this a step further and introducing an “unconference” participant-driven general session featuring key challenges facing the industry. Connect with Wakefield on LinkedIn and Instagram. .

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to the 2022 Global Meetings and Events Forecast from American Express Meetings & Events, more than two-thirds of responding planners expect their total number of meetings to return to 2019 levels by Q2 2023. Planning for duty of care towards attendees is another item that’s moved far up the list of planners’ duties.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

An MMGY Travel Intelligence study released in November quantified the impact of Black U.S. leisure travel in 2019 at $109.4 Phase Two of “The Black Traveler: Insights, Opportunities & Priorities” will be released in January. “We Black travelers spend on leisure travel was undervalued. billion—13.1

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. At Outlook Forum, Visit California’s recent conference for travel industry professionals, research showed that the Golden State continues to appeal to attendees.

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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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Planning Pod

JULY 25, 2019

Event management software applications are usually equipped with one or more of the following sets of features: Attendee management – For managing attendee and guest lists , attendee contact information, meal and session choices, travel/room details, name badging and event check-in. Contract Management. And OpenTable.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 11, 2017

California ’s ban on state-funded travel to states with LGBTQ discriminating laws has set off a range of reactions in the eight affected states, including a full-blown political feud in one of them. We’ve seen in other states, like North Carolina, when these travel bans go into effect, it does not get any better,” he said. “It

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It has topped of the list of challenges identified by planners in Convene ’s Annual Meetings Market Survey for years, including in the 2017 and 2020 surveys, conducted in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and in our most recent survey (to be published in a special Convene November Forecast issue).

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 27, 2020

4 Tips for MeetingProfs Filing 2019 Taxes in the Year of Coronavirus. The United States Secretary of the Treasury postponed the deadline for filing 2019 federal tax returns to July 15, 2020 with no penalties or interest due to disruptions connected to coronavirus. COVID-19 Considerations for Meetings Contracts.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Because of travel restrictions, Freedom Mortgage set up an unstaffed booth at the FAMP State Show. In 2019, FAMP drew 1,500 attendees and 140 booths. They gave us three options: Terminate our original contract and they would return our deposit with no penalty, Reschedule the event in 2020 with new contract terms; or.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tanna Pearman, meeting broker for Las Vegas-based Meetings Made Easy, handles site selection and contracting for both corporate and association clients, which means her approach to building RFPs focuses on different elements of each meeting to match a given destination and its various hotels.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

It’s construction alone resulted in 250-300 jobs across 22 South Wales firms, equating to contracts worth £22 million, and since opening its doors in 2019, the venue has confirmed events worth £161m to the visitor economy up until 2028. It’s easy to see how our purpose-built conference centre has benefited our local area.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Thank you @LEOEvents for putting some context behind the increased prices and fees we are seeing in contracts. In union venues, he is negotiating contract clauses that say if the venue can’t get enough people when they are needed, Leo can bring in their own. Scarcity Eats Cost for Breakfast. MeetSmart pic.twitter.com/lIi0DNi23g.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In the end, the shakeout wrought by the first major industry contraction in over a decade will yield unexpected benefits: a new ecosystem of smarter, better-skilled and more nimble professionals laser-focused on producing events with strong ROI, and a dynamic and engaging user experience across virtual, hybrid and in-person platforms. .

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2020

The HBAA annual Brexit survey in June 2019 revealed that 78 per cent of the sector believed Brexit had slightly affected business, up from 36 per cent in the previous year. According to the 2019 HBAA annual Brexit survey, 18.7 For events and travel agencies, recruitment has been static. Brexit’s impact on recruitment.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once a legally binding contract is in place, it sets the stage for easier conversations,” said Dustin Arnhem, senior vice president of sales with Visit Baltimore. ” The proof is in the pudding: Passenger arrivals surpassed 2019, with record arrivals May-Sept 2020. We are LIVE from IMEX in EXVO HOME!

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 6, 2019

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. Although the overall survey results paint an optimistic picture for 2019, individual responses reveal pockets of anxiety. Travel costs.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our interactions are bigger than booths and contracts. One high point was the release of “ The Black Traveler: Insights, Opportunities & Priorities ” report from MMGY Global that showed Black leisure travelers spent $109.4 It took months to get there, but in December we decided we had to do the responsible thing.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Customers travelling to the UAE during Expo 2020 can simply visit their nearest VFS Global Visa Application Centre in the GCC, India, China, Russia, UK and Germany to plan their trip, leverage VFS Global’s services and reserve their Expo 2020 tickets.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Travel management companies could find business particularly challenging as clients will be looking for innovative meeting solutions rather than a transactional service.”. As an industry we have been tracking and tracing for years through delegate, guest and traveller management.”. Rail will see a faster recovery than air travel.”.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Traveling to Jamaica has been even easier after the island removed all Covid-related entry requirements in April 2022. Jamaica recently served as the host destination for the International Board of Directors Meeting of the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) Global. “It Louis (STL). JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 11, 2022.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. Look at State Department travel advisories , not just at the time you book the event but historical warnings for the time of year your event will be held. Price and availability are the main considerations when choosing a venue, but Tyra Hilliard, Esq., Printer-friendly version.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 22, 2019

Mark Lomanno, a partner and senior adviser with Kalibri Labs, believes advertisements from travel discount companies resonate more with attendees than email alerts about convention housing. Online travel agencies use a range of communication channels,” Lomanno said, including television, social media, and print advertising.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 31, 2020

I lived through contracting it and it sucked. Now that virtual meetings are removing the burden and cost of lengthy travel and hotel stays, meetings that drew 1,000 people are now streaming to 4,000 or more. I know the meetings industry looks dark right now and the future is unclear. COVID-19 is real and it is devastating.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

7, “Industry Discussion on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): Identifying Reliable Sources and Factors for Informed Decision-Making.” the flu represents a greater health threat than contracting the coronavirus. Let’s [encourage everyone] to get out and travel.”. A close-up view of coronavirus. Photo Credit Adobe Stock).

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Decibel Management

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Remember 2019? You’d make travel arrangements. Ah, good old 2019. There were no travel arrangements to be made. Contraction rates improved. Some travel was booked. Back when there were large-scale events held. So, you’d make plans to attend. You’d buy tickets. You’d book childcare. You’d buy a new outfit.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Morial Convention Center over the near term is Smart Energy Week, a co-location of the Solar Power International show, the Energy Storage International show, and Wind Energy International show that in 2019 drew more than 30,000 total attendees. However, our obligations are not just to our customers but to our region,” Perry continued.

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