Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Elizabeth Money, SVP-Brand and Creative, BÉIS The BÉIS Hotel offered consumers the chance to interact with the brand’s products in a travel-themed setting. The BÉIS Hotel tour touched down for several weeks in each market, kicking off in L.A. in July and then heading to Vancouver in August. area,” Money says.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We have all heard the stories of airline passengers gone wrong. Physically assaulting or threatening to assault an airline crew member can result in a felony charge and using a weapon—anything that could cause harm—can result in prison and fines of up to $250,000. Airlines Be Fixed? Read More: Can Broken U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2019

American Airlines and Hyatt Hotels are teaming up to reward each others’ elite loyalty program members. forbes.com. Read More.

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MAY 23, 2022

Airlines have made significant changes in schedules, so the nonstops you favor may not exist anymore, and many routes have been sharply reduced or abandoned. Some airlines are even using buses rather than planes to serve smaller airports. Check up-to-date hotel services. Hotels are facing unprecedented staff shortages.

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JUNE 9, 2023

American Airlines Ups Summer Travel Extras American Airlines has announced that it will increase Wi-Fi connectivity this summer and offer free Wi-Fi to T-Mobile customers. The airline is also adding food options to transcontinental flights. The airline is also adding options to its Buy on Board program.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

– based airports, compiled by Cabin Crew HQ , along with conveniently close by convention centers and hotels! It is the considered the hub for both American Airlines and United Airlines and connects to 210 domestic and international destinations. The hotel also offers a shuttle for travelers. Check out the top U.S.

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APRIL 14, 2021

At some point, hotels and convention centers will need to draw a line in the sand — they expect organizers to make their best effort to live up to their side of the deal. It remains to be seen if hotels will adjust pricing to market conditions and be more flexible with partial performance and resulting liabilities.

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MAY 24, 2017

Because of millennial influence, American Airlines won its first Airline Brand of the Year honor in the Harris Poll’s 29th annual EquiTrend Study. The study, which measures brand health over time, found that American adults born after 1980 gave a big boost to travel brands —most notably airlines and cruise lines.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Asks Airlines for Hotels, Meal Vouchers. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has sent a letter to nine major airlines saying that they should pay for meals and hotels when travelers face delays or cancellations.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

After a firestorm of criticism over the way Southwest Airlines handled the holiday season and weather delays and cancellations, the airline is getting broiled on the fires of internal critiques. How did we go from the most stable and profitable airline in history to the greatest meltdown in airline history? “As

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JULY 13, 2023

JFK’s Terminal 8 to Get Upgraded Food and Shopping Hall The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in partnership with American Airlines and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Airports have announced a $125-million commercial redevelopment program for Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) (rendering above).

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

8, Hard Rock International issued a statement that it had been inaccurately reported in the Las Vegas press that the company would be closing The Mirage Hotel & Casino, which it has agreed to acquire for $1.075 billion. The airline currently flies out of LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 9, 2020

For refunds, take the lead from what airlines and hotels are doing for individual cancellations. Promise your community that you will update the website every two weeks leading up to that. Don’t break that promise. Refunds and FAQs.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

How to help your attendees navigate bumpy airline schedules. Airlines like United, Delta, American, JetBlue and the budget airlines, too, Spirit and Frontier began canceling flights like it was a stormy day in hurricane season. The cancellations are not just national—international airlines are being affected as well.

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MAY 11, 2017

Power’s 2017 North America Airline Satisfaction Study actually indicates that things have improved. In the report released on May 10, overall customer satisfaction with North American airlines has soared to its highest rate ever. This year marks the 13th annual North America Airline Satisfaction Study. How did airlines rank?

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hotels are raising rates for both leisure and group business as they are currently experiencing strong demand in many markets. Transportation providers from airlines to shuttle bus providers to shared ride services and taxis are all raising fees. in group hotel rates, with a 7.8% increase in group air rates, in North America.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

Smart Meetings has been covering the airline and hotel industry closely this year, both in our weekly travel reports designed specifically for meeting planners and in our feature coverage. Even before summer flight chaos took hold, Smart Meetings was proactively advising planners and attendees how to navigate bumpy airline schedules.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 29, 2023

As with recent hotel-labor agreements around the country plus a new contract for UPS workers, fresh contracts for more than 45,000 airline pilots may well affect costs around business events. The other major airline in the United States, Southwest, is in federal mediation with its pilots’ union over the terms of a new contract.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sometimes airlines and destinations will not accept antigen tests (but will accept an NAAT test), but often a viral test is the only specification. Check your airline’s and your destination’s government or tourism bureau travel restrictions website to ensure your negative result meets every qualification.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

. • At the macroeconomic level, a rate of inflation not seen since the mid-1980s will create budget concerns for individual and group business travel, spilling over from guest-room rates to labor and F&B costs at hotels. Image courtesy of GBTA ). • The midscale tier’s share of business bookings rose 20 percent in 2021.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Denise Mope Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas’s Uptown neighborhood added Mope as director of sales and marketing. He previously held sales positions at Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok, Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel and Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel. He climbed the ladder from director of operations at the hotel.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

United Airlines CEO Says Airline Chaos Will Continue In a Q4 earnings call, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said that operational collapses like Southwest Airlines’ recent fall from grace will continue given the state of the industry after Covid. “We which will force United to increase scheduled flight times.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 16, 2021

Caesars Entertainment made the 2021 DEI list for the first time, joining a few other hotel companies and airlines. Other suppliers on the 2021 DEI list that support the meeting and convention industry include Marriott International, Choice Hotels, Airbnb, Uber, and four major airlines: American, Delta, United, and Southwest.

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MAY 23, 2022

Specifically, about four in 10 respondents said they would agree to taking fewer but longer business trips, 40 percent said they would be willing to stay in a “less preferred but greener hotel,” and 33 percent said they would agree to take public transportation rather than their personal car.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Bill Jordan Jordan is director of sales and marketing for The Kimpton Pittman Hotel Dallas. Jordan comes from Omni Houston Hotel at Westside as director of operations. Juan Calderon Marriott Marquis Houston has named Calderon hotel manager. He also served on the board of the North Texas Hotel Association.

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Connect Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Samantha Brown has been inspiring wanderlust since her television journey first began with Travel Channel’s “Great Hotels.” So, she might know a thing or two, or three, about packing and some hacks once checked into a hotel. One thing hotels always lack is counter space,” Brown says. “If Don’t do coffee in your hotel.

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Airline travel is an essential part of event planning. Like it or not, most event planners have to incorporate airline travel, and thus airport logistics, into their event planning process. Event Planning and Airports Go Hand in Hand Airports and airline travel are a main component on most event planning checklists.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Before this, she worked as director of sales and business development at The Dupont Circle Hotel Washington D.C. and director of sales and marketing at Rosewood Hotel Washington D.C. and Capella Hotel Washington D.C. Sirmons is director of sales and marketing for The Art Hotel Denver, Curio Collection by Hilton.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Airline travel seems reasonably safe these days. Airlines claim “cabin air is refreshed 20-30 times an hour.” As described below, very few hotels (and venues) seem to have implemented ASHRAE’S building readiness standards for air quality in their properties. See below for situations when masks cannot be worn.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Many airlines are now offering tests either at home or at the airport prior to departure. Airlines such as American Airlines is offering passengers a number of testing alternatives prior to departure; at-home test kits from LetsGetChecked, testing in select local urgent care locations, or testing on-site at select airports.

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APRIL 28, 2023

The FAA has asked airlines in key airports including JFK to pull flights from an overcrowded and understaffed grid, making overbooking a foregone conclusion. Have someone on a hotline to help navigate rebookings to other airlines. hotel construction pipeline is expected to grow modestly or just incrementally through 2023.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

The resort fee—a daily charge tacked onto a hotel or resort room rate for services guests may or may not want—began there about eight years ago. hotel market collected an estimated $2.7 Some hotels now charge for early check in and late check out. Hotels in major cities such as San Francisco call their daily fee an “urban fee.”

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

In the latest setback, Southwest Airlines has been canceling and delaying domestic flights in droves for nearly a week. 9, the airline has canceled almost 2,000 flights and hundreds more were delayed, blaming a mixture of unsafe and unpredictable weather changes as well as air traffic control issues. Since Oct. Since Oct.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Elena joins the venue as Sales and Marketing Director from Hyatt Place London Heathrow Airport, where she re-launched the hotel post-pandemic, built a brand-new corporate base, and secured several major airline contracts.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Jamaica Tourist Board Announced New Airline Service. Jamaica Tourist Board Director of Tourism Donovan White shared his optimism about the outlook for the meetings industry in the country at a press conference and announced, new airline service from key markets. . — SmartMeetings (@SmartMeetings) October 11, 2022.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Hotel rates will slightly rise in 2017 in Orlando, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta and Denver, but potentially fall in Los Angeles, Houston, Washington, DC, and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a recently released report. hotel rates will show a marginal increase in 2017, from $153.16 The report predicts that overall, U.S.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

increase (forecast: 48.5), hotels saw a 29.8% Air Travel Despite the chaos airlines have seen over recent years, passengers are not staying away. According to Internal Air Transport Association, airlines are expected to carry 4.35 In 2022, air travel saw a 72.2% billion traveling across the globe.

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