Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2021

The 500,000-square-foot Atlantic City Convention Center just hosted its first large-scale events since Covid-19, U.S. According to Sandy Harvey, vice president of sales, the convention center is back to 2019 levels, and the coming years are looking just as good. Futsal National Championship and Atlantic City Hoop Group Boys Jam Fest.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

A report from Tourism Economics reveals that, while international travel increased by six percent in 2018, the U.S. continued to lose market share last year as international travel expanded 6 percent globally across all world regions,” Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics, told Convene. saw a fraction of that growth.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

With less than a week to go until IBTM World, which will take place at Fira Barcelona from 29 November to 1 December, the organisers have reported that visitor registration and pre-scheduled appointment numbers have surpassed 2019, reflecting a solid return to global business for the industry. . and CWT Meetings & Events.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 6, 2019

The Business of Events has today announced an expanded programme for 2019, including its first international event and a new venue for its flagship Senior Leadership Forum. It is a truly exciting time for the UK meeting and event industry.”.

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Event Industry News

MAY 16, 2019

The Association for Women in Events (AWE)? has opened 2019 nominations for its Hall of Fame Recognition Program, hosted by the AWE Awards Committee. IMEX America 2019. The AWE Hall of Fame recognises the advancement of women in events by honouring women and men with a categorical award. IMEX America 2019. “We

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Hubilo Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

With the year 2019 round the corner, event professionals must be already busy with the planning of the set of events to plan and visit in the next year. MICE industry welcomes all the event planners, event ogranisers, event-tech enthusiasts and event professionals to witness the rise of MICE in all forms!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

Travel Association’s National Travel and Tourism Week—which happened this past week—where they discussed the region’s forecast and data from 2021. Research by MMGY Travel Intelligence, HIS Markit, Travel Market Insights, National Travel & Tourism and U.S. decrease from 2019—and supported 57,933 local jobs. According to U.S.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The government has signalled its intention to agree a landmark Tourism Sector Deal for the UK tourism industry in a bid to attract more domestic and overseas visitors and help drive major economic growth. It is expected that the negotiations will lead to a final deal, to be announced in Q1 2019.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly important as the travel and tourism industries are surging into 2023. Corporate sponsorship allows Invisible Cities to provide skill training for their employees, bring tourism to the city and create a team-building experience that will inspire understanding amongst a group.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

All 4,000 of the attendees at Connect 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, can attest that this year’s conference was our best. See below for some of what made this year’s event so memorable. See below for some of what made this year’s event so memorable. The Fyre Festival took that to a whole new level in the events industry.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Sarah Blose, CMP, DMCP, 37, works in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as an a ccount manager for Destination Tahoe Meetings & Events. As a 2019 40 Under 40 honoree, Blose discusses her passion for the events industry. I’m also honored to have played an integral part in three events that each won an ADMEI achievement award.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 30, 2019

The subject was social justice issue and specifically sustainable events. My subject: Sustainability at events, is more than reducing plastics and paper use. Gothenburg was the perfect city to speak about sustainable events. Sustainability is much broader than most event professionals think. Can you see the difference?

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

RFP activity and hotel group room nights showed a significant increase in 2022 Q2, with both indexes reaching over 80% of 2019 levels, according to the 2022 Q2 Global Business Events Barometer released today by the Events Industry Council (EIC), the voice of the global business events industry.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

EventScotland and Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) have signed a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) during a meeting between the two organisations at Host City 2019. Events play a key role in our society by helping to bring strong social and economic benefits to the whole country. in Queensland calendar.”.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Whether it is hurricanes, fires, live shooters or picketers, most event professionals will eventually find themselves in the situation of putting into action emergency measures developed with the hope that they would never be used. Related : ADMEI to Focus on International Impact in 2019. Strangers Stepped Up.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2022

After a quiet two years on the events, hospitality and tourism fronts, an experience-driven, diversity, equity and inclusion-devoted (DEI) next generation of talent is pouring through open doors, looking for opportunities to break into the industry. Events Is Taking Interns. Academic Access to Events and Hospitality Grows.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We add our collective backing to the #WeMakeEvents campaign, and its urgent call for the UK government to support our world-leading events sector. In 2019/20, 76% of Deaf and disabled people engaged with the arts (vs 77% of non-disabled people), closing the estimated 9% gap in engagement recorded in 2008/09.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The leading event for the UK inbound and outbound meetings industry, The Meetings Show , met with its advisory board in October to discuss the future of the show and the future of events. Delegate Engagement. We need to look at what people’s needs are, see how they can be met, and deliver on that.”.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

New research published into impact of MICE sector in the region West Midlands’ business tourism venues welcomed 10.1 million delegates in 2019 Meetings industry in the West Midlands supports some 65,000 jobs. An estimated 105,000 MICE events took place, contributing to 14.5 million delegate days spent in the West Midlands.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 24, 2019

PCMA will deliver personalized education content with actionable outcomes, networking opportunities and fresh approaches to solving industry issues during 2019 EduCon, June 25-28 in Los Angeles. EduCon 2019 is attracting high-profile business events professionals from association, corporate and healthcare sectors, including Walmart Inc.,

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Louisville Tourism has promoted Morgan and Lundy to marketing manager roles and hired Clements as convention sales assistant. Morgan now handles promotion and initiative marketing for tourism in the organization. Lundy joined Louisville Tourism as a sales assistant after finishing her degree at the University of Louisville.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 13, 2020

2019 was a tough year for organizations promoting tourism. Elected officials tried to pull funding for Visit Florida—a state that collects more than $80 billion each year in tourism spending. Mexico Tourism Board closed altogether. The health of destination organizations is critical to the health of an event,” he says.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Smart Group has announced ticket sales have launched for its famous annual Hospitality Rocks event. The 2019 event will raise money for The Springboard Charity , which helps young people achieve their potential and nurtures unemployed people of any age into work. Tickets for Hospitality Rocks cost just £70 per person.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 22, 2019

BMA House – modern events with heritage. The venue has been shortlisted for ‘Best CSR’ for the London Venue Awards and ‘Greenest Venue’ and ‘Best Conference Venue’ for the Hire Space Awards 2019. Whether it’s a conference , social event or wedding, we have a true history of hospitality. Tel: 020 7874 7020 Email: events@bma.org.uk

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PCMA Convene

MAY 24, 2019

William Thomson (center) will take part in PCMA’s hackathon on homelessness in June during EduCon 2019. One meeting professional, William Thomson, founder of Gallus Events in Barcelona, organized Homeless Hackathon Glasgow last year, after reading statistics about homelessness in Glasgow, Scotland, his hometown.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Eventgoers and event planners alike are running full steam ahead in this new day-to-day norm we are all living in with the Covid-19 virus. Over 60 events already committed to the book for 2023 and with dozens of holds in place, the ACC is on its way to not having a weekend free until August. Electric bill aside, that’s a good thing.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

One of the biggest global meetings industry events of the year will be even bigger in 2019 as IBTM World will partner with The Department of Culture and Tourism—Abu Dhabi (DCT) for the gathering in Barcelona next November. IBTM 2019 will take place on November 26-28, 2019 at Fira Gran Via Barcelona.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 15, 2020

The event brought more than 1,000 industry leaders together in St. Louis in 2019, but attracted more than 3,000 for the 2020 virtual event, originally scheduled for Chicago. Relive lessons from Destinations International’s 2019 Annual Convention. Louisiana’s Cajun Bayou Tourism – With Distinction.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rules are changing again for event professionals following in the literary footsteps of Ernest Hemingway to Cuba for a corporate meeting. You just have to follow the regulations—and business events are at the top of the list of acceptable reasons to journey to the Pearl of Antilles. companies holding events in Cuba.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Starting in August 2019, a new graduate-level program offering a degree in meetings and event management will be added to the courses at San Diego State University. Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, the program consists of an 18-month curriculum. San Diego State University photo by Paul Lang.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2019, I had more airtime than most pilots,” Feldman said, articulating how he learned invaluable lessons in facilitating inclusion through interacting with people from different cultures. “In Like many in the audience, he is a frequent flier. “In meetsmart #eventprofs #Destinations #DBA pic.twitter.com/ART6LC3ym2.

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Gallus Events

JANUARY 21, 2020

Something exceptional is happening in Edinburgh and the whole events industry is on trial. Edinburgh’s Christmas and Hogmanay events have put the industry under the spot light, and the light has reached some very dark places. Welcome to Edinburgh’s Christmas and Hogmanay 2019. It is about over-tourism. I know, wow.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 28, 2019

Destination marketers have big audiences to reach — event organizers, business and leisure travelers, journalists, and social-media influencers. But when more than 1,500 of those marketing professionals arrived at the Destinations International Annual Convention 2019 in St. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and former Wisconsin Gov.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

This is the first time Cvent has generated the list since the pandemic halted events. 1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. 6 in 2019 Similarly, San Diego was able to move to the No. 7 in the 2019 listing Interestingly, Las Vegas slid to No. 7) in 2019, respectively. after being named No.

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EventMB

MAY 17, 2022

This segment has only come back 20 percent since its decline during the pandemic – one reason officials were happy to host MICE WEEK , a first for Argentina comprising a series of events from May 10 to 12 to woo international buyers. The event was a year in the works. In 2019, about 127 ICCA recognized events were held in the city.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

A leading global destination and event management company has decided to expand its efforts by initiating additional programs to address environmental and social development issues. The initiative takes a hands-on, bottom-up approach to address key global issues at specific destinations around the world.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

International travel grew gradually in 2021 after the quarantine of 2019, yet 2022 has seen a huge spike. With more countries opening their borders and lifting Covid restrictions, 2022 international travel has increased exponentially since 2019 and progressing towards pre-pandemic numbers. Why the Rapid Growth in International Travel?

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