EventMB

JUNE 22, 2022

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. The New Marketplace Philosophy for Meeting Bookings.

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Meetings Hotels 2020 B2B 160

Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal. In October 2020 I wrote two posts [1 , 2 ] about what a meeting industry new normal might look like. Yet the meeting and hospitality industries still have their heads in the sand in one crucial safety area.

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Meetings Airlines 2021 Travel 329

SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Early in 2020, I expressed some concern about “brain drain” in our industry. Simultaneously, full-time, part-time and contract planning positions were slashed as “not needed.”. Loss and Opportunity jobs outlook. Brandt Krueger. With so many people being laid off or furloughed, it was going to be inevitable. The upshot?

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Meetings 2020 Technology Advertising 91

PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

Those are among the requirements attendees must agree to for Metrock’s Voice of Healthcare Summit 2020 , scheduled for early August in Boston. Metrock is set to announce next week a change in venue for the event — a location “down the street” from the Martin Center, he told Convene. Courtesy Abbott Labs). Audience Capacity.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

If they have a live meeting planned in 2020, Colangelo said, they see that they must take it down — like a house, brick by brick. In fact, the biggest hindrance to association meeting planning right now is that “time is ticking away,” Colangelo said. What is the plan: Hit pause? Punt to fall?

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Sponsorships Contracts Trade Shows Meeting Planning 123

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

a digital agency that developed its own streaming platform, BeSpeake, from the ground up in 2020 to serve clients who were scrambling to achieve their goals. “We We learned a lot about how to do in-person and virtual meetings better during the last two years,” she said. “We Then omicron and the culture wars hit. “We

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Meetings Food and Beverage 2021 Insurance 111

SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In many organizations, the meeting planning function is viewed as administrative. ELI has many offerings, including certificates in Fundraising Event Management, Event Entrepreneurship: Growth Strategies, and Pandemic Meeting & Event Design. Laughter will be included at no additional cost.”. CAEs: The Association Pros.

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