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Making Up for Fewer Skilled Workers at Your Conference

Velvet Chainsaw

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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Ask the Experts: Has Omicron Affected Your 2022 Event Planning?

Eventsforce

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. We spoke to three tech-savvy event planners asking them: How, or if, their event planning has been impacted. Omicron has started to affect the first quarter of the business for 2022.

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Eventscase Monthly News Round-Up November 2022

Eventscase Blog

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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Eventscase Monthly News Round-Up July 2022

Eventscase Blog

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. EVENT TECH LIVE. What better way to spend these sun-filled days than with events. dearukraine: AEVEA members-only event.

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Cvent Will Go Private Again After $4.6B Sale to Blackstone

Smart Meetings

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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Tech Meets the Future

SmartMeetings

From around the world, announcements of dates and places for bringing tech minds together F2F have started to trickle in. Stevens has a couple of live conferences on his radar for exhibiting in October, but he is not signing contracts yet. “We She is counting on returning to at least the option of F2F by spring 2022.

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CWT Study: Business Travel Costs Are Still Going Up, Slightly

Smart Meetings

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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