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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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5 Biggest Challenges to Impact Events Industry in 2019 & Beyond

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the events industry contributes more to GDP than even movie production (source: A survey conducted by Meeting Professionals International). Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is expected that the events industry will generate employment at the rate of 11% from 2016 to 2026. whereas the lengths of meetings will increase by 0.1

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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. 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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Destination Profs On Getting Back to an Eventful Future

SmartMeetings

On some days, the map for the meetings and events industry recovery may look more like a Sorry game board winding back on itself with danger at every turn than a superhighway smoothly delivering delegates and ideas to their desired outcome, but meeting professionals are not alone on the journey back from pandemic times.

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Event Management Software That Can Be Fully Customised To Meet Your Needs

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The 20th century brought in a fresh approach to meetings and events. However, the COVID 19 pandemic has pushed the industry leaders to pivot tech enablement at the root level. of executives are willing to pay up to $5000 for tech needed to organise events. About 97% of senior executives believe that events deliver ROI.

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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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