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Two for One: How Organizers Combined a Food Writers Conference With a Food and Music Festival

PCMA Convene

Held in collaboration with euphoria, the 2019 AFJ conference — called AFJ @ euphoria — turned into an educational and entertaining mashup of tastings and talks. I realized that a gala gathering of food writers was the kind of event which would fit perfectly into festival programming,” Raskin said. The Right Ingredients.

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NEXT Events expands team with Events Director

Event Industry News

Founded in 2019 by hospitality design industry connector and business leader, Michael Schneider—NEXT Events provides unparalleled networking and matchmaking experiences exclusively for key-decision makers in the interior design industry. I love matchmaking events and bringing people together, and I look forward to our upcoming events.”.

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How Hotels Scrambled to Staff the Return of Events

Smart Meetings

The result is that availability of employees in the hospitality sector has hovered at less than 10% over the last five years while turnover has accelerated at a staggering pace of 165% from 2019 to 2020 before dipping to 85% in 2021 and lowering again to 70% as of December 2022, according to the report.

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