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In-Person Events: Good News and Bad News

MeetingsNet

Two bodies of research highlight planners’ challenges and potential attendees’ preferences when it comes to meetings. In a late June webinar that drew more than 700 corporate and association meeting planners, 64 percent of attendees responded that they expect their organizations to return to holding in-person events by January 2021.

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Choosing Your Perfect Destination for You and Your Attendees

Cvent: Event Marketing

Chances are your organization is not paying for the attendee – especially with an association meeting or user conference. Every destination has a slow period, in which you are most likely to negotiate the best meeting and hotel rates. Carefully consider their feedback before moving ahead with a future event.

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Highlights from IMEX America 2016

SmartMeetings

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. LVCVA developed the trade show booth over the past year in partnership with Inhance Digital.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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 Informal, Yet Aggressive.

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The Way Forward 

PCMA Convene

Think about it: In a period of less than six months, not only did the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union, but the United States and Russia flirted with a new Cold War, the migrant crisis ignited discontent throughout Europe, and Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign included calls for building walls and enacting travel bans.

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