Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Countries are continuing to relax their previously strict travel policies as Covid is perceived to be relatively under control. With most people vaccinated and fewer reports of positive cases, Covid related mandates in the travel industry have been relaxed. So, the question is—where are the travel trends going in 2023?

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Eventmobi

JUNE 3, 2019

And one of the first steps you can take when organizing your events is choosing a venue that is in line with values of sustainability. After all, venues are the ones that dictate a lot of the choices with their supply and management practices, so if you find the right venue, making your event sustainable will become a much easier task.

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Gallus Events

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The UN Climate Conference took place in Madrid in Dec 2019. I decided to travel down from Barcelona to find out how sustainable was COP 25? . So what exactly is the business of events, doing to showcase a sustainable future for our industry? This was a huge event, but was it sustainable? degrees Celsius.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

The Group made significant progress on its Net Zero by 2050 transition, achieved important milestones in employee engagement and diversity, and continued to look beyond its borders to convene the hospitality industry in meeting the growing demand of consumers for green travel.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We hopped on a call with Nicole Rogers, executive vp and chief sales officer for San Francisco Travel, the City and County of San Francisco’s official destination marketing organization, for a lengthy conversation about the realities the city is facing, the event business, and how the city is working to keep events and event attendees safe.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

Visit West , the Local Visitor Economy Partnership for Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire is working with b2me Tourism Marketing to launch a platform for local tourism businesses to learn about and connect with the travel trade. Travel Trade Ready is a unique and powerful tool.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Meon Valley Travel has made a second major appointment in 2021 with Velichko Ganchev joining as the company’s new director of technology. Ganchev joins Meon from Ventur, formerly Traveleads, having transferred to the business with the Sterling Travel Management acquisition in 2019. I’m delighted Velichko is joining us.

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The MICE

MARCH 31, 2022

Bern’s positioning as a leader in the energy and environmental sector, and its easy accessibility within Switzerland and from neighbouring countries, make it the most suitable city to host the Swiss Sustainability Forum. Due to the positive response to the topic of sustainability and the growing demand, this year it will be a three day event.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

Travel Association president and CEO Roger Dow seconded the request, saying, “Restrictions have taken a disproportionately heavy toll on the travel industry and our millions of workers, and the rule preventing cruise operations is uniquely specific. It will span five continents, ferrying travelers to 66 destinations in 34 countries.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

The LEED Platinum Oregon Convention Center (OCC) guarantees that you will have a sustainable event. Sustainability is in the Pacific Northwest’s DNA, and the OCC team is committed to the role of being an industry leader in sustainability. The best part?

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EventMB

JUNE 2, 2022

The high watermark of 2019 sits at 14,031 attendees for IMEX in Frankfurt 2019. were only lifted the day before the start of IMEX America 2019 preventing many non-U.S. However, we can’t deny the challenges of a new business reality – labor shortages, travel disruptions, supply chain issues.

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Event Industry News

MAY 24, 2019

The Events Industry Council, in partnership with IMEX, awarded the 2019 IMEX-EIC Innovation in Sustainability Award to Global Climate Action Summit before an audience of hundreds of industry leaders at an awards gala during IMEX Frankfurt last night.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The year 2019 is almost upon us. 2019 Event Trends: Your Audience Craves Authenticity. Bleisure Travel Becomes The New Norm. Sustainability Is Part of the Plan. This is no longer going to fly this 2019. Bleisure Travel Becomes The New Norm. Infusing Events With Hands-On Experiences. Saving on WiFi Costs.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Dominguez noted that even though mega-conferences were absent last year, borders are now largely open and travel is back with a vengeance. Travel is back, in Dominguez’s eyes. Travel is back, in Dominguez’s eyes. For those who did some ‘revenge travel’ last year, Dominguez says ‘revenge meetings’ is the next thing.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2022

IHG Hotels & Resorts announced a new collaboration this week with Unilever to replace travel-sized toiletries with a less wasteful alternative. We’ll continue to find innovative solutions for operating more sustainably to deliver our purpose of True Hospitality for Good.”. Many Roads Lead to Sustainability.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 22, 2022

But several big cities are still way down on overall business travel. Further, Knowland’s forecast for meetings business in the biggest markets finds that Phoenix and Tampa will fully recover their 2019 event volume this year. Over the remainder of 2022, corporate travel should grow significantly from its now-small base.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 15, 2022

A hot topic during last week’s Hotel Data Conference was booking the right balance between leisure business travelers. And] if hotels are selling out rooms Thursday to Sunday at sustained higher rates, is it less important [to hotels] that those same rooms are more than half empty during the week?”.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 20, 2022

Reports for clients, sustainability teams and stakeholders are generated in real time, pre and post-event. TRACE evaluates emissions from venue energy, impact of event location on travel and accommodation, production and graphics materials, food and beverage emissions and waste and recycling volume.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

Global travel prices are predicted to continue to increase in the remaining months of 2022 and throughout 2023, according to the 2023 Global Business Travel Forecast, published today by CWT, the B2B4E travel management platform, and the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Airlines are updating their business travel programs to be friendlier for groups struggling with last-minute changes, rising costs and reporting requirements. Recent enhancements make managing travel and redeeming rewards for meetings and events quicker and more streamlined. Here is what you need to know. Saving Time. Covid Shifts.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2022

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. increase over the same period in 2019, despite flying with what American says was 8.5% increase over the same period in 2019, despite flying with what American says was 8.5% less capacity.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

As a 2019 40 Under 40 honoree, Jankowski discusses her passion for the events industry. . How I got here: After college, I joined AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps and traveled the west coast for a year volunteering at a variety of nonprofit organizations. Outside of work, I try to travel as much as possible.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 22, 2019

The venue has been shortlisted for ‘Best CSR’ for the London Venue Awards and ‘Greenest Venue’ and ‘Best Conference Venue’ for the Hire Space Awards 2019. Our talented chefs have created mindfully nutritious menu concepts which focus on sustaining concentration and nourishing delegates with wholesome food. Great Hall Snow Room.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two-thirds of meeting professionals have reported the recovery of the hospitality industry to more than half of 2019 levels and one-third reported having reached beyond recovery to 80% of 2019 levels, according to new research by IACC’s new report, Meeting Room of the Future Barometer Late—November 2022.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A newly released Incentive Research Foundation 2019 Trends Study showed that incentive travel is an increasing priority in a world where acquisitions are creating bigger companies, and getting teams producing together quickly is essential to making the deal pencil out. Market Driven. market volatility and a tightening U.S.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

RFP activity and hotel group room nights showed a significant increase in 2022 Q2, with both indexes reaching over 80% of 2019 levels, according to the 2022 Q2 Global Business Events Barometer released today by the Events Industry Council (EIC), the voice of the global business events industry.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

” Travel Weekly reported that in a presentation to the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Allen outlined some of Hard Rock’s plans to redevelop the Mirage into the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas. Sustainability: IATA Teams with Travalyst, Radisson Joins GSTC. Radisson Joins Global Sustainable Tourism Council.

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Gallus Events

JANUARY 14, 2020

In December 2019 I travelled to Madrid to attend the Sustainable Innovation Summit, an official side event at the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference. I was very keen to find out what sustainability professionals thought about flight shaming. degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. But really what did anyone expect?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

How to positively impact social conditions in destinations with politics that don’t align Flashback to 2019. Its website describes SocialOffset’s brief this way: “We are a community of people determined to stay true to our values when we travel to or host events. Elena Gerstmann, FASAE, CAE, was hungry.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly important as the travel and tourism industries are surging into 2023. Travel took place in Orlando this past June and going green was the focus. The tourism industry can reach a community in a (literally) organic way! This year’s annual International Pow Wow (IPW) from U.S.

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EventMB

MAY 19, 2022

Let us explain … Since Skift acquired EventMB in 2019, we have witnessed a dramatic shift in the event industry. An era where meetings, events, technology and travel all play leading roles in defining and instilling organizational – and indeed industry – culture. We are now entering a new era of business.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The event, which takes place at Battersea Evolution on Friday 11 January 2019, gives the hospitality, catering and events industry the chance to let their hair down and unwind after the busy festive period, while raising money for an industry charity. or visit www.hospitalityrocks.co.uk.

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Eventbase

JANUARY 9, 2020

In 2019, we witnessed climate strike movements happening all over the world as consumers put more pressure on governments and industry to provide sustainable solutions to combat CO2 production, plastic packaging and waste. What is sustainable event management? However, there are some ways to reduce this waste.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 24, 2021

Green Tourism has launched a ground-breaking partnership with Visit Belfast and Belfast City Council to rapidly advance sustainability within the city’s tourism sector and help the local sector recover from the challenges of Covid-19. The landmark plan also forces a rethink about what a new and successful tourism destination looks like.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 4, 2023

The Corporate Events Team at the Science Museum in South Kensington has announced it has become a member of independent events industry sustainability body isla, furthering the work already being done by the organisation to achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2033. The Science Museum Group is committed to achieving Net Carbon Zero by 2033.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Home to the British Medical Association since 1925, their sustainable venue boasts 22 unique and versatile spaces for up to 320, including 11 purpose-built meeting rooms, all fitted with cutting edge AV technology. Courtyard Standing Reception Snow Room Garden Great Hall. million litres per year. Contact Details: 020 7874 7020 events@bma.org.uk

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2023

Shelby Luzzi Shelby Luzzi Luzzi is the first senior manager, sustainability, of Destination DC (DDC). In this role, she will develop and implement strategies for sustainable travel practices in meetings, conventions and leisure travel to Washington, D.C. Along with her team, she won sales team of the year in 2019.

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