MeetingsNet

MARCH 29, 2024

At a recent meetings-industry conference, hotel executives explained how their properties struggle to balance rising operational costs with competitive rates for meeting groups. Those expenditures must be recovered by hotels over the next couple of years, he noted. What’s In It for Event Groups?

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You can’t make a list of meetings industry thought leaders without including Michael Dominguez, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International. If you drew a Venn diagram of board members over the past decade who have served Meeting Professionals International, U.S.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 15, 2020

One of the massive financial challenges facing destination marketers all over the country is the sudden loss of funding from transient occupancy taxes when hotel properties were forced to at least temporarily close to slow the spread of novel coronavirus , a budget-killing reality that is still happening in many parts of the country.

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

We worked closely with destination Bern – the Bern Convention Bureau , Switzerland Convention & Incentive Bureau and local hotel partners where the sessions were filmed: Hotel Schweizerhof Bern & THE SPA, Hotel Bellevue Palace Bern and Kongress + Kursaal Bern AG. Hotel Schweizerhof Bern & THE SPA.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 14, 2017

Financial terms were not disclosed. In addition to skiing enthusiasts, the hotel and travel industry—as well as event planners that specialize in selecting venues for intimate corporate and association meetings—is taking notice of the deal.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

In fact, the biggest hindrance to association meeting planning right now is that “time is ticking away,” Colangelo said. You have these rock-star meeting planning employees. Then, they need to rebuild it, but it won’t look like the same house, and they don’t know what it will look like. What is the plan: Hit pause? Punt to fall?

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 3, 2023

Meeting and convention departments powered through these macro workplace trends. They often managed with reduced headcount even while reimagining many meetings as virtual events and working with hotels, where staffing shortages have been most acute. As one hiring official put it to me, ‘I had to lay off 20 people.

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