Smart Meetings

MAY 16, 2022

Sims has spent over 20 years in the events industry, most recently the owner and event designer for Carrie Sims Events Design, a company she started in 2019. Hotel Haya in Tampa, Florida, appointed Carlson director of food and beverage. Jeff Carlson. Peter Andersen. Edward Searle and George Sous, MBA. Moira Masshardt.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Dina Belon Dina Belon, Staypineapple Hotels, Inc. Belon takes on the role of president of Staypineapple Hotels, Inc. Husbands brings three decades of experience in a diverse set of positions, from international director of finance at the Golden Tulip Hotel group to many other general manager positions.

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Eventory

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Check our list to see where you can learn the hottest hospitality trends for 2019. The dream of many entrepreneurs is not only to create something new, which corresponds to the current needs of the consumer of hospitality and hotel services. Stay up-to-date with hotel industry trends. AnfaS Hotel Equipment.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 8, 2022

Erney was most recently regional vice president of sales at Associated Luxury Hotels International. She brings over 25 years of sales and events experience, recognized in 2019 as Supplier of the Year (Doer category) by Smart Meetings. He brings 22 years of events and hotel operations and management experience to his new role.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Pop-up retail events - commonly known as flash retailing - are an emerging marketing tool used by brands to boost their sales. At these pop-up events, a brand will set up their products and services at a temporary location, and through event marketing, will hype these events as the ultimate place to be at. Have a Balanced Budget.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the eight months since GroupSync Engage debuted, the real-time event-booking tool from technology firm Groups360 has been implemented by more than 500 of IHG’s 5,000 hotels, all 50 properties from Omni Hotels & Resorts, and 5,000 of the 6,500 properties in Hilton’s portfolio.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Palli has joined Omni Hotels & Resorts in Dallas as chief commercial officer. With 25 years of experience in hospitality management, Palli has held multiple leadership positions with Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, including night manager, duty manager, front of house manager, revenue manager and more. Peter Palli. Jennifer Walker.

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

IHG HOTELS & RESORTS. IHG, the official hotel and hotel loyalty partner for the 2021 US Open Tennis Championships, is inviting fans to stay in a room at the Kimpton Hotel Eventi in Manhattan where a meticulously curated tennis installation awaits. Bookings were available starting Sept. WILSON SPORTING GOODS.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 14, 2023

As organizations build their budgets for next year’s meetings, they shouldn’t expect any relief from the increasing cost of airfares, hotels, and other services, according to the recently released 2024 Global Business Travel Forecast from CWT and the Global Business Travel Association. The CWT/GBTA report sees a 4.3 percent to $247 next year.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Pop-up retail events - commonly known as flash retailing - are an emerging marketing tool used by brands to boost their sales. At these pop-up events, a brand will set up their products and services at a temporary location, and through event marketing, will hype these events as the ultimate place to be at. Have a Balanced Budget.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2019

TJ Pierri Hotel Zoe in San Francisco has named Pierri as general manager. Before Hotel Zoe, Pierri served in the role of resort manager at Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Leesburg, Virginia. Trish McClean Visit Baltimore has named McClean its director of brand marketing. Dallas Smith & Company in Atlanta.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 26, 2018

Not only are we in a seller’s market, but planners will also face tighter budgets, higher meeting costs, and less bandwidth. After aggregating 1,000-plus hotel sales promotions in 2017, we found that hotels send out promo offers 89-193 days from the arrival/departure dates. And 2019 and 2020 don’t look much better. .

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Accor Survey: “Meeting Expectations: The Future of Meetings & Events” World-leading hospitality group Accor operates a diverse hospitality group of over 40 hotel brands, from luxury to economy. They offers experiences in over 110 countries with 5,500 properties, 10,000 food and beverage venues, wellness facilities and workspaces.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Reiplinger has worked in the hospitality industry for almost 20 years, most recently as managing director at the AAA Four Diamond Bodega Bay Lodge of the Woodside Hotel Group, also in Sonoma. Vialpando also formerly worked for Woodside Hotel Group as executive chef at Bodega Bay Lodge. Brent DeRaad. Carolyn Turnbull.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Martin managing director of Delta Hotels-Marriott Dallas Allen & Watters Creek Convention Center scheduled to open in Allen, Texas, in January of 2019. Martin was previously Benchmark’s general manager for The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Club at Kukui’ula.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Maria Elena Armenta Mahekal Beach Resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico has added Armenta as director of sales and marketing. Previously, Armenta served as regional director of Florida and the Caribbean Islands for Preferred Hotel Group and regional director of sales at The Delano and The Shore Club in Miami.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 17, 2019

T&G is a market leader in the wedding business, widely respected throughout Japan for offering professional wedding planning services and hosting the largest number of wedding ceremonies in Japan. The Venetian is one of seven hotels within Sands Resorts. “We We are happy everything ended successfully.”. Under-One-Roof Ease.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In 2019, you should expect to see more event pros trying to find a way to bring this out of the novelty phase and into their events through content delivery, virtual site tours and gamification. With hotel commission rates being cut, and travel budgets ever shrinking, planners are finding new ways to hold large events.

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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. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S. Work with Partners—and Haggle.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hotel sales teams are barraged with automated forms, lean staffs and limited information to determine what the customer really needs. We are seeing more hotels being included in RFPs,” he said. In October, the average number of hotels copied (8.1) More, Faster, Pricier.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

ballroom, a 90,000-square-foot theater, a 25,000-square-foot Meridian Garden, 57 meeting spaces, 3,700 guest rooms and 27 different food and beverage outlets on the 25-acre property, soon to be announced. Visit Orlando launched a new destination brand to promote the Orlando region to the meetings and conventions market.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Changing the culture throughout the hotel has been a key priority and we have spent a great deal of time over the years working on the business’s values, brand and strategy; building on our passionate people, excellent service, innovation and sustainability. This was particularly challenging; both markets are unique and equally important.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 4, 2019

In the AIM Group International white paper titled “How to Create a Truly Unique Destination Experience and the Latest DMC Trends,” AIM’s Bob Novak looked at whether DMCs can keep adding value in the current market as well as what trends are emerging for 2019. Ethical Food. Does that mean that DMCs are no longer needed?

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Event Industry News

JULY 30, 2019

Ed Hoskins also joins this month from the hospitality and food and beverage industry. Sophie Parratt joins as project manager, leading in logistics and delegate management for global client events, and Joanna Davis joins from Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group as personal assistant to managing director.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A lot has changed since Conrad Hilton’s parents turned their general store into a hotel for traveling salespeople in San Antonio, New Mexico, in 1919. Related : Dishing 2019’s Hot F&B Trends for Groups. This replenishment may come from a free waffle or an extra measure to help guests feel safe in their hotel room.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 1, 2019

The Riverside Convention and Visitors Bureau has the distinction as one of the top three best destination marketing organizations in 2018! Rejuvenate with citrus-themed signature beverages and farm-to-table menus from our creative culinary staff. The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, a Historic Landmark Hotel newly renovated in 2019.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And airport hotels are almost as universally loathed. Like a hospital or retirement home, [an airport hotel] is a place almost nobody stays by choice,” according to business journalist Bruce Schoenfeld. ,” the correct question would be: “How do people describe airports?”. The project was the first major renovation of any U.S.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hotel rooms are always close with 2,200 committable rooms within walking distance from the convention center and a total of 8,000 rooms available citywide with additional 600+ rooms in early 2019. Combined these venues offer 550,000 square feet of meeting space. The post San Jose: City of the Future appeared first on Cvent Blog.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

marketing efforts : reach your audience through ads, social media, and email marketing. Event planners got along just fine with this playbook until 2019, but these days, they find themselves easily frustrated and confused. Hybrid event budgets call for less food & beverage, lodging, travel, and venue costs.

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Eventbase

JANUARY 9, 2020

In 2019, we witnessed climate strike movements happening all over the world as consumers put more pressure on governments and industry to provide sustainable solutions to combat CO2 production, plastic packaging and waste. Food waste is a big problem at events. So how can you make a difference and select more sustainable food choices?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2021

That would be a 60 percent increase from the same weekend in 2020, but still 6 million fewer than in 2019. million Americans were planning air travel over the three days, according to AAA statistics, six times more than in 2020, but 750,000 fewer than the same time in 2019. Conventioneers Return. Ready for Fun. The Cosmopolitan.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

ballroom, a 90,000-square-foot theater, a 25,000-square-foot Meridian Garden, 57 meeting spaces, 3,700 guest rooms and 27 different food and beverage outlets on the 25-acre property, soon to be announced. Visit Orlando launched a new destination brand to promote the Orlando region to the meetings and conventions market.

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TicketBud

MAY 3, 2019

Lacy manages event budgeting; managing the bidding processes and RFPs for audio visual, food & beverage, and venue selection; logistics; speaker and sponsor coordination; all day-of event logistics execution, and registration. Ticketbud is excited to have been nominated for the 2019 Austin A-List Awards.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2019

Tempe is a great choice for meetings for 10 to 500 attendees, and the Tempe Tourism office is offering the “ Choose Tempe and save $500” promotion in 2019. Nearby, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Phoenix Tempe offers a beautifully landscaped, resort-style property with 272 guest rooms and more than 25,000 square feet of meeting space.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why the Tempe Tourism Office is offering the “Choose Tempe and save $500” promotion in 2019-20. In a city that is always changing and growing, planners can expect updated meeting venues and, coming soon, new hotels. This hotel offers more than 30,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor function space.

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Event Planning BluePrint

MARCH 29, 2022

Competitive research is a crucial part of any good marketing plan because it helps you: Understand your target market. Improve your marketing strategies. Identify market gaps, and allow you to fill them. Is it any wonder that, as of 2019, his net worth is $4 million? Experiential marketing. Media relations.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A post shared by Hotel Villagio (@hotelvillagio) on Aug 13, 2018 at 5:14pm PDT. The big reveal of The Estate at Yountville transformation occurred in November when Hotel Villagio threw open the doors on 112 cozy guest rooms as part of a larger property makeover of the former Groezinger Winery that includes 80 guest rooms at Vintage House.

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