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Meeting Planners Travel Report: Euro Travel Rebounds, JFK Terminal Tech-Savvy 6 Breaks Ground

Smart Meetings

Terminal 6 at JFK The new Terminal 6 is a public-private partnership between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and JFK Millennium Partners which is developing the new terminal in two phases, with the first new gates opening in 2026 and construction completion in 2028.

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6 tech-savvy solutions to meeting obstacles

Plan Your Meetings

Meetings are necessary. But what is not a given is an effective meeting. But often, we are faced with meetings that are either poorly managed, unnecessary or a huge time suck. But often, we are faced with meetings that are either poorly managed, unnecessary or a huge time suck. How much time do you spend in meetings?

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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. GBT’s paper outlines several ways travel can reinforce this movement to revitalize connection and culture in meetings and business, further exemplifying the dynamics of business travel.

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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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Event Industry Trends & Stats

InGo

Event technology statistics Since InGo’s platform is the #1 tool for scalable professional referral marketing, we had to start with some tech stats. 67% of event professionals believe in-person meetings will return to their pre-pandemic numbers within one to two years ( AMEX , 2021) 41.1%

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Event Industry Trends & Stats

InGo

Event technology statistics Since InGo’s platform is the #1 tool for scalable professional referral marketing, we had to start with some tech stats. 27% of all virtual/hybrid meetings will make use of a mobile app ( AMEX , 2020). 97% of marketers in the tech industry use agenda features in their event app ( EventMB , 2020).

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