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. Here’s our report from September 29, “ Hurricane Ian Damages Florida’s Peak Meetings Season.”. The top 10: Did you read them all?

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Adam Simpson, Director of Marketing, etc.venues. Contracts worth £1.6m moved forward from enquiry to draft contract: £0.5m Contracts worth £1.6m moved forward from enquiry to draft contract: £0.5m This suggests 2022 will be the year of meeting up.” were signed and in addition, business valued at £0.4m

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Predictions of a mass consolidation of the meetings industry have been swirling since the World Health Organization started advising lockdowns in early 2020 to “smooth the curve” of what was then known as novel coronavirus. The post A Unique Meetings Consolidation Model Grows appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. We live in a hybrid world where almost every major event has a virtual component, even if we don’t call it that,” said Bizzabo Chief Marketing Officer Alon Alroy. “We

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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. Eventscase has participated in the best way it knows how, offering the technology for this meeting to take place in PANGEA The Travel Store, Madrid on July 11th.

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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. We will close this series of quarterly events for the English-speaking market on November 23rd at 11 a.m. (UK ANNIVERSARY SURPRISE FOR ETL 2022. PUCHERO 2022 OF OPC SPAIN.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Destinations International Large Market Roundtable outlined initiatives to establish Destination Booking Agreement Guidelines to create certainty for all parties. Once a legally binding contract is in place, it sets the stage for easier conversations,” said Dustin Arnhem, senior vice president of sales with Visit Baltimore.

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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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MeetingsNet

MAY 12, 2023

Especially for autumn events in the Southeast and winter events in the Midwest, planners should understand the current market for cancellation coverage. As a result, it’s best for meeting planners to obtain cancellation insurance right after they sign their venue contracts for events set to happen in a destination’s storm season.

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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. New business has increased by 266%, compared to 2020, and is up by 14% on 2019.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

Along with expertise in corporate travel events and hotel contracting, he brings a passion for community service. Dringham enters as director of marketing. She most recently served as director of marketing at Davidson Hospitality Group, where she provided both on-property and task force marketing leadership to numerous properties.

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Planning Pod

JUNE 10, 2022

As a provider of catering management software ourselves, we get asked quite frequently what are the other best catering software solutions on the market and how do they compare to our platform. Lead and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Automations for emails, reminders, payments and more. Flex Catering. Key Advantages.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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EventMB

MAY 22, 2022

Make It Easy to Buy: Implement a Meeting Room. Creating a meeting space in your booth is an awesome way to hold your attendees’ attention and give them the opportunity to speak with you in a private setting. Bonus tip: allow and encourage attendees to make appointments to speak with your team in the meeting room.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Following the pandemic, in 2022 Natalia decided to start her own business as a Freelance Event Manager. Venue sourcing and management: The team secures the perfect location, negotiates contracts, and oversees logistics. Her client portfolio includes HSBC, Samsung, NHS Improvement, and Penguin Random House.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 27, 2021

Smart Meetings talked to three meeting professionals tasked with figuring out how to achieve company goals and engage their geek audiences and their evolving expectations and learning styles in ways that are meaningful and effective, regardless of how content is distributed. The Day the Meetings Stopped.

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EventMB

MAY 10, 2022

ON24 attributes its negative revenues in the first quarter of 2022 to client budget rationalizations, the high cost of energy, and the dampening effect of the Ukraine crisis on EMEA markets. Sharan and Vattuone attribute this decline to inflation, the crisis in Ukraine, and contracted enterprise client event budgets.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Easol Capital is an industry-first financing solution which gives festival organisers better control over their cash flow, instead of being tied into advance contracts with restrictive and often unfair terms with traditional ticketing companies. Easol is the only provider on the market that gives the flexibility we need.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s a baffling trend, and one that hotel guests and meeting planners alike must contend with: The percentage of U.S. In May 2022, as the Covid pandemic waned and travel started to return, an average of 12 positions were unfilled at each property.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Events are being contracted at absolute minimum guest numbers with up to 35% additional attendees being added after the initial contract is signed, sometimes just days from the event date. The company recognises service as a key differentiator in the market and has strived to put customer service at the fore. Delegate numbers.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 8, 2022

Flash forward to 2022 and that original objective remains steadfast, but the event strategy has evolved with the times. Indeed, the 2022 iteration of Business Class Live had all the trappings of a traditional b-to-b show, like panels, networking, wellness moments and breakouts. It makes people want to come back.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With meeting season back in full swing, hotels are busy servicing corporate and association programs while their sales teams are sifting through the requests for proposals for business events set to happen in late 2023 and throughout 2024 and beyond. It’s a sellers’ market these days; hotels have multiple pieces of business to choose from.

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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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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Alison Brooks, director of destination experience and advocacy at Visit Mesa , and Julie Pingston, president and CEO of Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB ) , proactively addressed the issue at Destinations International Annual Convention 2022 in Toronto, Canada, last month. Leonard Hoops, CEO, Visit Indy.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A team of event experts from Leo Events —Principal Kent Underwood, Principal Kevin Brewer and Senior Vice President Amy Manzanares (a Smart Women in Meetings winner)—led a lively discussion at Smart Meetings 3-Day Experience in Nashville about the ups and downs of prices of everything from cooking oil to copper. You have to pick two.”.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

On a global level IATA ( International Air Transport Association ) reported data for August 2022 that showed “continued momentum in the air travel recovery.”. Total traffic in August 2022 was up 67% compared to August 2021, reported the agency. Globally, traffic is now at 73.7% of pre-crisis levels.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Given that 2022 was the first year many in-person events returned after the pandemic, continued uncertainties around COVID, consumer behaviors, and economic constraints made it difficult for CAC planners to predict how many attendees and exhibitors would register to travel to their events. What are the key motivators for each group?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Variable expenses are all the extra things that depend on your number of attendees, marketing costs, and all the extra touches that make your event unique. Marketing and advertising. Social Media Marketing World went from an event with only 50 staff to more than 200 staff. Examples of variable costs include: Meals per attendee.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 8, 2021

We saw event production contracts go from thriving to nearly all events cancelled, scaled way back or transformed into virtual in a matter of hours or days. Most big corporations cancelled them during the pandemic and then realized their bottom-line sales number weren’t really affected while they save the huge marketing budget spend.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

There’s a lot of information out there about how to better your career as a meeting professional. Throughout the year, Smart Meetings has invited professionals from different corners of the event planning world to impart their knowledge. Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings. What makes content compelling?

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Event Industry News

JULY 14, 2022

Gartner’s recent CMO Spend Survey reported a big shift back to event marketing. Following record lows in 2021, marketing budgets as a percentage of company revenue climbed from 6.4% in 2022, with Event Marketing & Sponsorship showing the largest increase in spend. . There is something special about live events.

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Event Industry News

JULY 14, 2022

Gartner’s recent CMO Spend Survey reported a big shift back to event marketing. Following record lows in 2021, marketing budgets as a percentage of company revenue climbed from 6.4% in 2022, with Event Marketing & Sponsorship showing the largest increase in spend. . There is something special about live events.

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Event Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

The following insights were derived from the Event Marketer x Mosaic EventTrack 2021 industry forecast, AnyRoad’s Experiential Trends 2021 report, Northstar Meetings Group’s May 2021 Pulse Survey and Bizzabo’s Q2 2021 Virtual Events Benchmark Report. So what can event marketers expect as the second half of 2021 unfolds?

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SpotMe Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Digital events have increased by 600% compared to pre-pandemic (Veeva CRM Engage for Events, April 2021–April 2022). And our customers from 10 out of the top 15 pharma companies have told us that they’re being encouraged to go back to meeting and interacting in person. Meet the expert 1:1 sessions / Medical ad board sessions.

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