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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

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. Shifting marketing budgets. Planners are charged with making the problem go away but have little to no negotiating power.

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For Short-Term Meetings, a Market Squeeze?

MeetingsNet

markets have seen especially strong occupancy rates driven by group demand, while forward bookings through the end of 2023 are well above last year’s pace. Economic observers had predicted a mild recession in Q4 that would stunt travel demand, thus boosting room availability and cost negotiability. The top 25 U.S.

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75% of travel managers in Europe expect 2022 business travel volume to surpass 2019 levels according to new Cvent report

Event Industry News

Cvent , a market-leading meetings, events, travel and hospitality technology provider, published the latest instalment of the Cvent Travel Managers Report: Europe Edition , which provides in-depth insights into current corporate travel trends and activity. The report reveals significant levels of optimism amongst corporate travel managers.

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Eventscase Monthly News Round-Up November 2022

Eventscase Blog

Coinciding with our anniversary, negotiations began to achieve this latest round of investment that we have made public this week. 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.

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Hoteliers’ Thoughts on Accommodating Meeting Groups into 2023

MeetingsNet

Hint: A new meeting pattern could help groups having a difficult time at the negotiating table. This article in Hotel News Now shows that the leisure market was the primary focus of the hotel executives on those panels.

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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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Four Business Travel Trends and Forecasts Impacting Events in 2024

Event Marketer

The good news for event marketers, however: Despite the year’s travel speed bumps and forecasts, many events and trade shows (CES 2024, included) are reporting they are back to pre-pandemic attendance levels. Corporate travel policies may start including air emissions tracking.

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