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Cvent’s ‘Top Meetings Destinations’ and ‘Top Meeting Hotels’ Returns: Nashville and San Diego Move Up

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Compiled by analyzing more than $14 billion of group business value sourced through the Cvent Supplier Network in 2022, the rankings highlight hotels, venues, and destinations. 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 2019, respectively.

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Fighting Fyre: Epic Event Fails and How to Avoid Them

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FAIL 1 – Not Living Up to the Brand In January 2019, the Clemson University football team was scheduled to be honored with dinner at the White House after their National Championship win against The University of Alabama. Marketing for the event touted celebrity guests, top-level speakers and a highly anticipated ball pit.

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Guest Blog: The 7 MICE hotspots of tomorrow revealed

Event Industry News

By Danielle Curtis, Exhibition Director – Middle East, Arabian Travel Market & IBTM Arabia. The city hosts around a third of all conferences held in the Czech Republic and is enjoying vigorous investment in new congress and convention facilities; growing its portfolio of dedicated MICE venues.

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How do you make sure your event is kept cigarette-butt free and smokers dispose of their debris safely?

Event Industry News

There will still be people at any event who want to smoke and it’s in your business interest to make provision for them,’ says Nicola Boon, marketing manager at Keep Britain Tidy. You can also end up with smokers congregating around entrances and exits at a venue, making for a horrible experience for non-smokers walking through them.’.

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CreativeMornings: A Global Community Built on Connection

PCMA Convene

Fast forward to 2019: CreativeMornings now has more than 200 chapters that meet weekly in more than 65 countries — and ultimately working to reverse the trend of loneliness around the world. “I Petersburg, Florida area, relied on the CreativeMornings chapter in Atlanta, Georgia, to help her connect when she was a student.

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Our Picks for the Business Event Trends of 2021

PCMA Convene

Many of the trends that were predicted for 2020 at the close of 2019 seem so far removed from our pandemic reality — didn’t we seem so innocent back then? Georgia Tech professor Charles Isbell was the opening. Jeremy Kahn, who writes the “Eye on A.I.” researchers, which attracted more than 20,000 participants this year. Ayesha Khanna.

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Face-to-Face Meetings: An Antidote for Loneliness

PCMA Convene

In Norway, which ranked third in the United Nations Sustainable Development 2019 World Happiness Report, 16 percent of the population reported that they are “haunted by loneliness every day,” according to Karen Dolva, CEO and co-founder of No Isolation, a Norwegian startup that makes connection a priority. Rachel Jolley).

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