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Q&A: San Francisco Travel Association Discusses Event Safety and Business

Event Marketer

The city’s challenges related to homelessness, crime and drugs are part of a combination of factors that are impacting the city’s event business, with a number of big tech conferences announcing historic moves out of the city and to Las Vegas. Many organizations use their annual meeting as a fundraiser also.

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

For travel managers (and meeting professionals), the job requires agility, delicate planning, awareness, intention over expenses and duty of care. Business concerns from retention to sustainability are being met with business travel solutions. According to GBT, travel programs are becoming one of the main ways remote teams meet.

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Gerd Leonhard: The B2B Potential of the Metaverse

Management Events

In fact, Gartner predicts that about 25% of people will spend at least an hour a day in the metaverse by 2026. Though companies like Meta seem to be leading the charge in creating the future of the metaverse, Leonhard noted that the tech giant should be disconnected from the debate of the metaverse in general.

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Metaverse: what it means for tradeshows

Event Industry News

We have profiles all over the web, we use ecommerce to make online payments, we have relationships with people online – people meet and maybe never meet face-to-face – but are still able to form real relationships.”. Smart Events utilise data-driven tech to enhance value at every touchpoint during in-person events.

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