Event Industry News

APRIL 27, 2022

As Official Overlay Supporter to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, GL events UK will be delivering infrastructure at as many as 11 locations, to transform Birmingham 2022 venues into Games-ready arenas, ahead of what is set to be the sporting spectacle of the summer. To apply, or find out more, visit: [link].

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The New Year is upon us and as we look at 2022 for our meetings and group gatherings, we gaze into the future with bright eyes and positive grins and think, what the heck is going on? It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. It’s believed to be more transmissible, but less severe.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The global exhibitions market is set to contract by c.70% AMR’s methodology has focused on three factors – event cancellations, event postponements and the contraction of events. AMR’s methodology has focused on three factors – event cancellations, event postponements and the contraction of events. 70% contraction.

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Event Industry News

JULY 29, 2022

WeTrack are proud to announce that they are the official supplier of the Games Issue Tracking System for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will take place in the United Kingdom from July 28th to August 8th, across Birmingham, the West Midlands and London.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Events infrastructure specialists, GL events UK has been appointed as the Official Overlay Supporter for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. GL events and Birmingham 2022 are aligned in their aim to strengthen connections between communities in the West Midlands.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

As things currently stand in the events industry, we’re planning events in 2022 as if the COVID-19 pandemic never existed. She notes that, indeed, some events look a lot like 2019 in 2022. ” Planning Events In 2022: Event Planners Lack Resources. ” How To Move Beyond 2019 When Planning Events In 2022.

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Eventsforce

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The year 2022 was supposed to be a new start, a move back to in-person events, and a return to some semblance of normality. Omicron has started to affect the first quarter of the business for 2022. Alongside this, we are scrutinizing contracts and agreements a lot more than we used to for cancellation, re-booking, and deposit policies.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many of the most-read articles from the past year will remain relevant in the year to come, with information on contract clauses and planning stress to EU entry regulation changes and, yes, shoes. For some winning suggestions, read “ Comfortable Shoes for the Show Floor: 2022 Edition ” from October 4. The top 10: Did you read them all?

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Judging by the increase in contracts confirmed and bookings moving to contracts that we have seen in three days since the news of the lifting of the Plan B restrictions, many event planners are gaining greater confidence to run live events,” says Adam Simpson, Director of Marketing for etc.venues. Contracts worth £1.6m

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Event Industry News

JUNE 21, 2022

Following recent contract wins at three of the UK’s leading event venues, audio-visual and entertainment technology company Anna Valley has promoted Dan Orchard to the role of venue director. Anna Valley is also the in-house audio-visual supplier to the Emirates Stadium and The Grove Hotel.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Throughout 2022, nearly every meeting service provider continues to be short-staffed and plagued by last-minute no-shows or insufficiently skilled workers. To best prepare you, here are eight kinds of curveballs other meeting professionals have been thrown so far in 2022, with expectations extending into 2023— and how to deal with them.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 12, 2022

Influencer Marketing Hub , which specializes in producing content in the social media and influencer marketing industry, published its top 18 social influencer trends for 2022. Top Five Trends in Social Influencing. We’ve culled those trends to identify five that are applicable to the B2B events industry. Data rules.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 15, 2023

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. Event planners should consider asking key suppliers to add a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their contract.

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Eventscase Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The contract renewals we have closed in recent weeks are a testament of our clients’ trust in our team. LAST ‘WHAT’S UP’ EVENT OF 2022. ANNIVERSARY SURPRISE FOR ETL 2022. We are hosting representatives from event agencies in Spain and we’re flying them to London to attend Event Tech Live 2022.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The 12th edition of Globex – the global exhibition organising market: assessment and outlook to 2022 – released today by AMR International, details the devastating impact of COVID-19 on 2020 and looks ahead at the likely fallout of the crisis over the coming years. Highlights – Projection to 2022.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A recent survey takes the pulse of meeting planners, asking about budgets, contracts, airfares, virtual meetings, and more. After rising costs, finding availability and service levels/quality were the next two biggest headaches for planners when the Q4 Meetings & Events Pulse Survey was conducted November 10 through December 16, 2022.

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Eventscase Blog

JULY 14, 2022

We all want and need these days to rest up and recover for the final leg of the year, and to allow us to come back even stronger with more enthusiasm to finish off 2022. CONFERENCES & EVENTS Awards 2022. What better way to spend these sun-filled days than with events. dearukraine: AEVEA members-only event.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

of events contracted in 6 weeks – up 225%. We’ve seen strong and consistent weekly growth since 19 July in the number of enquiries we’ve received, in the value of the enquiries and in the contracts signed, with substantial increases in the last 6 weeks compared to the previous 6 weeks. We’ve contracted events worth £5.2m

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All Seated

JULY 11, 2022

Digitize Your Contracts . The faster a client signs a contract, the faster you can set up your payment milestones. Gone are the days of a paper contract – think digital-first now! Hellosign is a great option if you’re looking to move your contracts into the 21st century. Set Up All Contracts & Invoices at One Time .

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bookings for conferences, meetings and training events at Wyboston Lakes Resort for 2022 are currently over 140% ahead of 2019, alongside a record number of large events from leading pharmaceutical companies taking place this Autumn. While it is great to see rapid recovery, it is much more important to see stable growth throughout 2022.

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Planning Pod

JUNE 10, 2022

Build and share BEOs and other documents – like kitchen production sheets, proposals, contracts and invoices – in minutes with pre-built templates and custom formats. Learn more >> The post Best Catering Software of 2022 – Reviews of Top Solutions & CRMs appeared first on Planning Pod Blog.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

IBTM today announced that it has signed a new three-year contract with Barcelona Convention Bureau and Fira de Barcelona that will see IBTM World take place in the city up to and including the 2022 edition.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

26 their union’s course of action if contract negotiations don’t advance. The Culinary Union Nevada and Bartenders Union Nevada, each part of the national Unite Here labor organization, have been without a contract for about 53,000 of their members working in Las Vegas hotels since June 1.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Plus strategies for managing increased business travel costs in 2024 Business travel and event cost are not increasing as steeply as they were in 2022, but they’re still going up, according to 2024 Business Travel Forecast , a new study by CWT and Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). In 2022, air travel saw a 72.2%

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The north London Camden venue is proving that there is a steady growth of confidence in the industry with an increase in a wide variety of event contracts from 2022/23 – 2024. Bookings are such that availability for popular dates from September this year are proving hard to find.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 27, 2023

With Unite Here Local 737’s nearly 800 workers at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center threatening to strike since the end of 2022, a tentative contract agreement was reached on January 24 between the union and Sodexo, the foodservice provider at the facility. Vote ‘No’ to Disney’s contract proposal on February 2 and 3!”

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Does your hotel contract make it easy for a hotel to relocate your business? If your hotel contract was written before or during the Covid pandemic, you’d better watch your back. First, these meeting contracts do not prevent cancellation; rather, they allow cancellation subject to a party’s obligation to pay cancellation damages.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Read More: Cvent’s Event Tech Roadmap According to filings, at the end of last year, Cvent had approximately 22,000 customers globally in the corporate, non-profit, higher education and hospitality sectors as of December 31, 2022. In 2021, the market for in-person, virtual and hybrid events was estimated at $30 billion.

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EventMB

MAY 22, 2022

The design may also provide the emotional push needed to sign a contract as well. The post Trade Show Booths: 100 Best Ideas for 2022 appeared first on Skift Meetings. Sell more by placing it front and center so it’s not competing with anything. Why it works: this design creates good brand awareness and interest. Share it with them.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Event décor and installation specialists, Visual Architects has been recommissioned for services at Kendal Calling 2023 taking place at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District from 27th – 30th July, following a successful, full transformation of the festival in 2022.

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Skiddle

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Our Account Management team have recently reported a score of new multi-year contract renewals with prominent promoters the likes of Garage Nation, Out Of Phase events and Rotunda Comedy Club, to name a few, whilst our Business Development team have also been extremely busy as of late. In other news…. Start listing your events today !

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2023

Force Majeure Clauses As we all learned over the last three years, force majeure clauses focus on liability when unforeseen circumstances impact the ability for one or both parties to perform the contracted activities. However, the more vague the wording, the harder it will be for those looking to cancel or terminate an event contract.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to the 2022 Global Meetings and Events Forecast from American Express Meetings & Events, more than two-thirds of responding planners expect their total number of meetings to return to 2019 levels by Q2 2023. The full version of the 2022 Global Meetings and Events Forecast can be found here.

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Skiddle

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In this week’s update, we’ll be informing you of the latest news whilst sharing some of our various different department’s performance statistics from the first quarter of the 2022/23 financial year whilst – including Account Management, Business Development, Marketing and Content. Business Development. Marketing & Content.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Conversation Starters at Convening Leaders 2022 gave both in-person and digital participants a chance to discuss a range of hot-button topics. The majority of participants shared that they are still in limbo for how meetings in 2022 are going to go. Another participant just contracted for their group from 2026 – 2034.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to the Centre’s latest report and accounts, The QEII Centre delivered total revenues of £14.95m for the period 2022-23, equivalent to 94 per cent of what was achieved in its best year of trading in 2019/20 (£15.94m).

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How can you, as a planner, structure contracts to be flexible? What can you do at the contract level to make sure that last-minute changes don’t have a negative impact on your event or your budget? Look into the history of pre/post stays with your attendees and contract accordingly. Start Sooner. Avoid the Elaborate.

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