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The Unpopular Opinion Part 3: Blockchain will be prolific within the events industry

Event Industry News

Registration: attendees will manage their own event ticketing and registration profile. Housing: Hotel agreements will become smart contracts on the blockchain, eliminating any ambiguity and enabling hotels to easily decipher what the organiser requires in their contract.

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After Marriott Commission Cut, Event Tech Exec Urges Planners to Make Lemonade Out of Lemons

SmartMeetings

Tenholder equated Marriott’s decision to a price increase, similar to when airlines cut commissions to travel agents, but didn’t lower ticket prices. The event technology executive sees digital tools as a way to magnify the value planners bring. “The scuttlebutt has been going around for a year. Leveraging Tech Tools.

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Nine Cool Technologies to Help Plan Your Next Event

TicketBud

Event coordinator is consistently listed in the top 10 most stressful jobs , along with military personnel, airline pilots and newspaper and broadcast journalists. The technology also allows you to add your signature to scanned documents, so vendor contracts have never been easier to share, sign and send.

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How the events, hospitality and restaurant industry can tackle labor shortages with technology

Planning Pod

In that same vein, some hotels and hotels groups are resetting customer expectations by reducing services like daily housekeeping/clean linens (BTW, don’t forget the customer blowback the airlines suffered when they started nickel-and-diming customers for previously complimentary services). without losing them.

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2020 Event Tech Trends That Will Shape The Year

Endless Events

We’ve lived in data silos for the last 30 years of event technology. “The ones that grabbed onto social media 10 years ago, it’s the same thing. We’ve lived for the last 30 years of event technology and data silos, and this is starting to change. “One size does not fit all.

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