Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2022

Editor’s Note : As part of Back Light, an ongoing series of looks behind the scenes at how events are being produced today, we asked Paula Mettler Marketing and communications manager with Leo Events to share a look at a recent production for a major retailer. Associates Meeting, and the legendary Associates Celebration to wrap up the week.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A traveling iCare truck, outfitted with a broadcast studio, traveled to hospitals in eight Italian cities, setting up tents and outdoor screens at parking lots in hospitals. “It SIAARTI’s “Travelling with ICARE” tour, organized by AIM Group, hit eight stops on its 1,000-mile journey across Italy in 2020.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hafer has served in sales and event management and marketing for the past 15 years, most recently as director of group sales at The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel in New York City. Travel Association, Meetings Mean Business Coalition, PCMA Education Foundation and Chautauqua Institution in New York. Tiffany Alves Hafer.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nasdaq: CVT), a market-leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider, and Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. Starting on 9 December 2021, the common stock of Cvent began trading on The Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol “CVT”. Cvent Holding Corp.

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Event Industry News

MAY 9, 2018

Petra Hedorfer, CEO of the GNTB and Chairwoman of the GCB Administrative Board, analyses the significance of business events for business trips to Germany, saying: “31% of promotable business trips, i.e. trips that are undertaken to attend different types of business events including incentive travel, can be attributed to meetings and conferences.

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Eventmobi

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With their first hybrid event MEET THE CHANGE, the German meetings industry association MEET GERMANY needed to deliver an innovative event format. While attendees can meet in person on-site, online events make it possible to reach a large audience anywhere in the world. Hybrid Events Are Actually Two Events!

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

As part of ongoing investment in the services most needed by clients, BMA’s expert technicians have created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Digital only events have a far lower impact on the world around us as travel decreases.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

As part of ongoing investment in the services most needed by clients, BMA House’s expert technicians have created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Digital only events have a far lower impact on the world as travel decreases.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2021

As part of ongoing investment in the services most needed by clients, BMA’s expert technicians have created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Digital only events have a far lower impact on the world around us as travel decreases.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 3, 2023

As the workplace recovery continues in 2023, corporate and association meeting departments are likely to pick up the pace of recruiting—especially if the economic outlook is strong. MeetingsNet talked to industry executives who have observed the changes and the challenges of rebuilding meeting teams over the past year.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Before making Ethical Swag her full-time job in 2017, she had spent a 30-year career in variety of roles, from director of communications and marketing of the original bid committee of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games to head of a cyber-security company. Less is more sometimes.”. A Good Sign.

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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 don’t have that flexibility — something everyone needs these days— when you travel to a conference. And so Bear Analytics also finds itself in a rare situation. What is the plan: Hit pause? Punt to fall?

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Cvent: Event Marketing

APRIL 16, 2019

Chances are your organization is not paying for the attendee – especially with an association meeting or user conference. How responsive is the Destination Marketing Organization? Here are 5 factors that should influence your decision: Where are attendees traveling from? Break Down the Budget. Attendee Costs.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2017

Specifically, any conference with a European delegation sponsored by a medical-device company will be affected by the new EthicalMedTech regulations coming into play in 2018, according to Patricia Andrade, vice president of marketing and communications at ABTS Convention Service. Davide Veglia, ABTS president.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There were more reasons than ever to attend IMEX America 2016, the biggest three-day exposition for incentive travel, meetings and events, which concluded yesterday at Sands Expo and Convention Center at The Venetian | The Palazzo Las Vegas. Many of these we’ve introduced in response to research, delegate feedback and market trends.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. and those that travel to international markets. travel ban). economy’s growth was outpacing expectations. I hope for stabilization so that planning can be more intentional than planning for the unknown.”.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

After a blow to international travel due to Covid, a wave of tech layoffs and some negative publicity, the city is leaning into its strengths as a diverse, business savvy and beautiful destination to reemerge stronger. Regional recovery will depend on the continued growth of the convention market and the rebound of visitors from Asia.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 29, 2017

I feel very lucky as well that my job provides me with the opportunity to travel and see more. I get to meet many of our members several times a year, and so to me, they become like my own ICCA family. Marketing Manager, Kenes Group. Associate Meeting Planner, Harborside. Erica Critzer. CRITZER, CMP. ANNAMARIE N.

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The MICE

JANUARY 11, 2021

The SCIB has a presence in 14 markets. It is a MICE-oriented property in the city portfolio, and the renovation allowed the hotel to position itself in a clever way in the Bernese market. I think that people are thinking twice before they travel, but when they do, everything needs to be very fast.’.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Its rankings by International Congress and Convention Association (ICAA) have risen steadily over the decades: In 2016, Mexico City hosted more association meetings than Toronto, New York City or Washington, D.C. of meeting and convention space. The capital has hosted an Olympics and two FIFA World Cups.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

So it wasn’t just our presentation that was important, it was the whole week there,” said Jocelyne Perron, CMP, manager of business development for the international market for the Palais des congrès de Montréal. “We Like many DMOs and venues, Meet Minneapolis and the Palais des congrès de Montréal field hundreds of leads each year. “I

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

In a survey Convene conducted in early June, more than 6o percent of respondents said they thought that the Trump administration’s proposed travel bans had caused negative perception about travel to the United States, while 34 percent said they could link them to a drop in international registrants.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As What Are They Saying?,”

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