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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022

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Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), a celebration of everything wonderful about the meetings industry, is kicking off its seventh year with the theme “Meet Safe,” a redux of GMID 2021’s theme. While most events across the globe took place virtually last year, more events are now meeting in person. Advocating Voices.

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Lodging Econometrics: New Brands and Delayed Projects Swell Hotel Construction Pipeline

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How about the news that 283 projects totaling more than 37,000 guest rooms are in some stage of planning or building in Canada, a 10% increase in projects and a 5% increase in the rooms pipeline since last year? That sounds like hope that the compression in meeting space in the Americas may soon get better, right?

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5 Smart Moves from VisitPITTSBURGH, Benchmark, The Jefferson Hotel and More

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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.

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Three Professors Weigh in on How Experiential Marketing Degree Programs are Taking Shape

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Now, with more than 15 years of experience in the industry, he’s teaching the next generation of event marketers as an adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Sosa says the hospitality school brings the industry in to meet the students where they are, offering an invaluable impact to their career development.