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Budget Financial Meetings: Doing More with Less

SmartMeetings

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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Financial Meeting Planners Face Special Challenges During Crises

SmartMeetings

When the going gets tough, the tough cut costs—at least in the financial and insurance conference sector, where budgets often are more likely to come under the scrutiny of regulators. Managing risk is particularly important in the financial and insurance meetings sector, and meeting planners play a key role in this process.

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Short Surge Omicron Predictions from ALHI’s Mike Dominguez

Smart Meetings

The venue could turn around and use the language to cancel on the planner in the event of another surge in even local cases. And if one pops up, he said that the tools, organization and the unity developed over the last 20 months will help to avoid the deficits events and hotels have experienced since 2019. “We Forward Steps, Together.

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The Labor Shortage: Hospitality Employers Get Creative to Fill Jobs Supporting Major Events and Conventions

Event Marketer

At a time when many marketers begin returning to in-person events and venues start to reopen, they’re being confronted with a supply and labor shortage that affects their ability to execute the kind of events they want. Business travel is down and not expected to return to 2019 levels until at least 2023 or 2024.

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State of Virtual Meeting Tools

Smart Meetings

A streaming option can serve larger, more geographically diverse and executive audiences, act as a flexible insurance policy in the event a new threat grounds attendees while providing valuable data about behavior. Decreased costs associated with venues, food, beverages and accommodations can help expand distribution.

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Agency Spotlight: Top Banana

Event Industry News

Key services and sectors served: With their core mission to help businesses communicate better Top Banana work largely with internal communications teams helping them bring strategy to life through their 6 core services; events, incentives, digital, design, film and venue sourcing. Case Study: Virgin Media Business. What the future holds.

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15 Toronto Wedding Planners Share Their Favourite Weddings From Last Season

EventSource

Great food, great wine, and the greatest people. Upon arrival to the private cottage in chartered limousines, guests enjoyed a refreshing, artisanal alcoholic slushy beverage provided by Sweet Ice Company. As Ricarda’s | The Atrium is a larger venue, we opted to introduce a more intimate layout and divide the space in two.