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Budgets Versus Costs: A Losing Battle?

MeetingsNet

Based on several hundred planner responses, MPI’s latest industry outlook finds that rising prices have strained meeting budgets, and will likely continue to do so into 2024. Heading up the list is food and beverage, where 55 percent of planners have dealt with costs that are at least 10 percent higher than they were one year prior.

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3 Easy Ways to Meet All Your Attendees’ Food Needs

MeetingsNet

How you can accommodate your attendees’ food allergies, sensitivities, and preferences with some proactive planning. read more.

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Break Foods that Boost Energy

MeetingsNet

For your next refreshment break, instead of the typical buffet of pastries, cookies, and cakes, try a balance of whole, colorful, fresh foods. These will help keep your attendees focused, and productive—and they boost the immune system, and provide the body balanced nourishment for all-day energy.

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5 Hot Culinary Trends for 2017

MeetingsNet

Generate excitement without blowing your budget with these chef-tested meeting and event food and beverage trends. By Anne Thornley-Brown. read more.

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Don’t Believe Everything You See on Twitter About a San Francisco Meeting Apocalypse

Smart Meetings

A reported $10.7 We’re thrilled to welcome meeting and event attendees back to the City by the Bay. San Francisco’s welcoming people, its unbeatable food scene, and its endless activity regularly lead to record-breaking meeting attendance. Now the city is benefitting from an AI boost.

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Meeting Rooms of the Future Will Be Experiential, Tasty, and Wired

MeetingsNet

Conference centers are going cozy, creative, and high tech, according to IACC’s Meeting Room of the Future study. read more.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2016 survey.