e2m.live

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

the events industry contributes more to GDP than even movie production (source: A survey conducted by Meeting Professionals International). Hence, it is hard to believe the reports like 2019: Global Meetings and Events Forecast, that predicts that the events industry will hit badly by tightened budgets! Let’s find out.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Webinar live date: March 28, 2019 at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Webinar live date: March 28, 2019 at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Issues such as commission payments, vendor relationships, meeting points/rewards, and other types of non-monetary gifts or items of value, continue to raise concerns. Moderator: Rob Carey Sr.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The year 2019 is almost upon us. 2019 Event Trends: Your Audience Craves Authenticity. This is no longer going to fly this 2019. Workshops are fast becoming the preferred activity for many conferences and meetings. Business meetings and similar events are quite grueling, with goals and deadlines to be met at every turn.

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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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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2021

This city has so much to offer visitors—vibrant arts, culture, museums, sports, recreation, beautiful hotels, dynamic meeting facilities and a mind-blowing culinary scene—but it’s about more than just things on a map,” Gamez said in a press release. Sometimes the simplest goals have the greatest impact.”.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 30, 2021

Top meeting professionals and dignitaries met this week at Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Loudoun County, Virginia, to celebrate the return to business at Smart Meetings’ first face-to-face event of 2021, Mid-Atlantic Experience. In 2019 alone, meetings brought in $17 million in revenue to the area. of meeting space.

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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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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 17, 2020

Now that all that interaction had to be moved online , Hannah Hodkinson, marketing director at The Ortus Club , which produces executive knowledge-sharing discussions around the world, had some suggestions for how meeting professionals can use the same elevated attention to detail to engage a time-strapped audience. Virtual Events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Day two of IMEX22 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas kicked off with a keynote address by Shane Feldman, founder of Count Me In , who stressed the importance of creating an inclusive experience at meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry.

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Event Industry News

MAY 13, 2021

Whilst the events industry is waiting on the final guidelines from the UK Government for re-opening live events, we have been supplying temporary structures to clients within the hospitality sector, outdoor events and, through our partners in New Zealand conferences and corporate events. Conference Structures. Time is of the essence.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

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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Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2022

The recent celebration of Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) provided our industry with an opportunity to step back from the chaos of the last two years and assess not only where we have been, but where we are going. The necessity of hybrid meetings brought many things to light. Not All Audiences Are the Same.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 19, 2021

New spots for business meetings and events are also opening up across Canada. of event space and sits directly where the soft sand of beachfront meets a shallow rocky slope. Glimpse is one of its largest meeting rooms. of meeting space for business travelers. Intercontinental Phuket Resort opened in 2019.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2019

Seven teams pitched their solutions to a business industry challenge during a hackathon at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. Seven teams went head to head in Sunday’s hackathon at PCMA Convening Leaders 2019 , where they worked to solve a business events industry challenge and then pitch their solution to a panel of judges.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With a majority (52%) of planners expecting their in-person event spend to be higher in 2021 than it was in 2019, these results put a spotlight on the opportunity for MICE business recovery among those hotels that meet high health and safety standards. The pandemic forced a nearly complete pivot to virtual meetings in 2020.

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Expo Pass

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

And which ones will really show the future of how we meet and connect? A literal combination of our online existences and meeting in-person again, or “IRL”. We expect the event to be a good litmus test for how all kinds of meetings can look in 2022. The organizers are committed to keeping people updated if guidelines change.

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Endless Events

JULY 18, 2020

People are growing tired of Zoom meetings, and the thought of being together in-person is getting and more and more exciting after such a long break from social gatherings. Even tech companies are acknowledging that the typical way we meet virtually isn’t working. CDC Guidelines For Events. More examples of hybrid events!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

More : Navigating in Open Waters with Cruise Meetings. CEO Bob Levinstein shared encouraging statistics with Smart Meetings in an email, noting that advanced bookings for 2022 are level with 2019 by number of cabins pre-booked. Beyond Government Guidelines. ports during the U.S.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2021

Biometrics company Zenus is one of the players in the space and helped streamline the registration process at an event in 2019 in 2019 for the more than 18,000 attendees with facial recognition-enabled check-in processes. Facial recognition technology, widely used in airports, is expected to support touchless events. SCHEDULING.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

After a postponed 2020 annual event for more than 700 people, Meeting Professionals International (MPI) brought its World Education Congress (WEC) back to Las Vegas this week with more than 1,200 people live for a series of firsts. The post MPI WEC Marks Return to Large Industry Events appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In 2019, FAMP drew 1,500 attendees and 140 booths. FAMP followed state and local health guidelines and “worked closely with hotel staff and our exhibition company” on safety protocols, said FAMP President Linda Knowlton. Here’s how they did it. New Health and Safety Protocols. “We New protocols included: Face masks.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The most coveted amenity in the meetings and hospitality world right now is…confidence. Confidence is turning out to be a scarce commodity as the weeks have dragged into months and meeting professionals are rebooking the rebookings. The meetings landscape is uneven. Meetings are so missed,” he reported. Exactly,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Day two of IMEX22 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas kicked off with a keynote address by Shane Feldman, founder of Count Me In , who stressed the importance of creating an inclusive experience at meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 9, 2021

“We’re honored to have played a role in the success of these show, and we will continue to lead our industry to recovery by supporting healthy, safe environments that allow groups to meet with confidence.”. According to Go LIVE Together’s research, in Orlando alone, 2019 business events brought in more than $9.9

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Very simply, our goal was to meet safely in person and celebrate the successes of 2019 while recognizing the challenges of 2020,” said Leigh Bentley, Meeting Services Division Manager at SERVPRO. Attendees qualified for the 2020 incentive trip based on their 2019 volume.). Developing the Event Plan.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Instead of advertising its own products, Amazon is using the naming rights it secured for the stadium to honor a pledge it made in 2019 to reach net-zero carbon emissions as a company by 2040. Taking a pass on thinking about sustainability isn’t really an option anymore for meeting professionals who organize events, Arell said.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That brutal attack was fresh on Lauren Parr’s mind as two protesters from the audience rushed and jumped on the stage as a plenary session was about to get underway at last year’s Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for Earth and planetary scientists at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

An Attitude is Everything survey in 2019 found that 70% of artists with access requirements had withheld details of a health condition or impairment due to being worried that doing so would cause problems and impact a relationship with a promoter, venue or festival.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 28, 2020

In 2019, more than 746,000 people danced and celebrated at more than 150 shows hosted by elrow, a Spanish-based company that bills itself as the host of “the craziest party in the world.” As organizers become more experienced in the digital events space, Ricci said, they will be able to better attract sponsors by meeting their goals.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

event design : signage, swag, event layout, meeting room design, exhibit floor design, and other event creative ingredients. event design : signage, swag, event layout, meeting room design, exhibit floor design, and other event creative ingredients. marketing efforts : reach your audience through ads, social media, and email marketing.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

Consent and legal interests set the guidelines for interaction with these groups. Milan Klöwer (@milankloewer) November 5, 2019. Rachel helps meeting planners grow their event attendance with results-driven event marketing strategies. Events’ Impact on the Environment. How to reduce it by more than 90%? Embracing Diversity.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Ciara Gallagher, manager of Meet in Ireland, which sponsored the report, cited incentive travel’s role as the fastest-growing sector of MICE, with highest-per-person spend and widest reach across the destination supply chain, as the reason the principles needed to be captured in a shared document. The Bangkok Manifesto.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 19, 2021

Right now, obviously we’re still in that mode of mostly everything has to be virtual for safety guideline purposes. With the rentals you refer to, are those very small in-person meetings that are then broadcast or maybe there’s a broadcast studio at convention centers?

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When our 2019 Convene Salary Survey was initially sent out in late February, we asked respondents their gender — male or female. It’s an important question for us to ask because we use that information to highlight disparities in pay among male and female event organizer respondents.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Nevada implemented new guidelines that allow gatherings of up to 250 people or 1,000 total in four separate spaces under strict rules. In 2019, the firearms and ammunition industry was responsible for as much as $60.02 The group met once a week over the phone but is now meeting bi-weekly to discuss plans for moving forward.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 24, 2019

Rubber Meets the Road. Washington Convention Center this past January during the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting, where student teams gave five-minute “Shark Tank”–style idea pitches to judges and a larger audience. Over the last few years, pedestrian and cyclist fatalities and accidents have gone up consistently,” Watson said.

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Bizzabo

APRIL 21, 2020

Rakuten Dealmaker is an event series with planned stops in cities such as Scottsdale, New York, London, and Sydney in 2020 (pending federal and state public health and safety guidelines). In fact, over 4,000 one-on-one meetings were scheduled in 2019 alone! Key Takeaway: Experiential marketing is all the rage — as it should be!

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