EventMB

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Skift Take: Groups360 are making group travel booking easier for consumers and the hotels. The company urges planners to embrace new technology that increases efficiency, frees up resources, and ensures a direct connection between hotels and clients. Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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EventMB

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

GroupSync’s instant booking gives them the faster, smarter decision-making capabilities they crave. Skift Take: In today’s pressure-cooker environment, planners want the same immediacy and variety as in their online grocery shopping. Groups360 Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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eventplanner

APRIL 7, 2024

We are proud to announce that the fourth, completely updated edition of the best-selling book for organisers, EVENT PLANNER by Kevin Van der Straeten, is in the making. Are you ready to help shape the future of event planning?

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EventMB

JUNE 22, 2022

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. The New Marketplace Philosophy for Meeting Bookings.

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EventMB

APRIL 13, 2023

Skift Take: Meeting and event bookings in Canada are 55 percent of pre-pandemic, and the critical five-year booking window for larger gatherings is 47 percent causing major concern for cities and event venues nationwide. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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EventMB

JANUARY 19, 2023

Skift Take: Booking meeting space online has tempted planners for a long time; it is now a reality. With Marriott becoming the first major hotel brand to offer instant booking on Groups360, this could soon become the standard way of booking small meetings. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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EventMB

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Destinations International’s Don Welsh explains the new booking agreement during IMEX as (from left) Emily Scheiderer, DI; Melissa Riley, Destination DC; Junior Tauvaa, Visit Anaheim, and Dustin Arnheim, Choose Chicago look on. Skift Take: Industry collaboration takes on added importance in a post-pandemic world.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Events.Hilton.com site is being enhanced to allow planners with groups of up to 35 attendees to book meetings online. Hilton has announced plans to roll out a direct-booking tool for small, simple meetings in early 2024. Companies in the program will have a customized booking website and receive discounted rates.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Chicago’s Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher that works to highlight the struggle for social and economic justice. Their books focus on important topics like Black politics, prison abolition, Black Lives Matter, and police brutality.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 5, 2023

GroupSync Instant Booking for guest rooms now available chain-wide, while Instant Booking for meeting space is coming in 2024. At Omni Hotels & Resorts, the small-group booking process has just gotten a little easier. and Canada has expanded its use of the GroupSync Instant Booking tool from platform provider Groups360.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 21, 2023

Member name: ACE BOOKINGS LTDDate formed: AUGUST 2013 – Celebrating 10 years this AugustNo of annual events supported: 500 + A YEAR Staff: 4 family members – Jo, Jade, Ella and KateOffices: DERBYWeb address: www.acebookings.co.ukMantra: Clients and suppliers all part of our Family Formation: ACE is a family run business, Jo, the owner and venue finder, (..)

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Skift Take: At a time when virtual events seem to be losing steam, some are wildly successful and help companies generate millions of dollars in revenue. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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EventMB

JULY 25, 2023

Skift Take: Cvent, the world's largest event technology company, has unveiled two new products and is rolling out a new instant booking tool across Choice Hotels International's portfolio of franchised hotels. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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JULY 26, 2022

Whether you’re organizing a concert or looking for performers to give your food fair or market some ambience, the right musicians can make all the difference. From picking the perfect genre — an indie band might be better at an event with a dance floor than a wine tasting, for example — to pinning down […].

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EventMB

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Meeting booking platforms purport to streamline the RFP and venue sourcing processes, saving hours in the search for venues and back-and-forth with sales staff. The post Will Meeting Booking Platforms Ever Be as Automated as Travel Sites? The post Will Meeting Booking Platforms Ever Be as Automated as Travel Sites?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

Groups360 announced this week that Choice Hotels worldwide will be offering online instant booking for group guest rooms through their proprietary GroupSync Marketplace. Instant Group Booking at Scale Choice joins hoteliers Marriott , Hilton and IHG on the platform that allows meeting planners to direct book without the need to submit an RFP.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Dave Harvey, vice president and chief sales officer for the airline, explained that the new product makes booking and/or changing names for group flights—something that could have taken weeks of manual confirmations, approvals and information gathering in the past—a self-service task with the potential to be condensed into a few minutes.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Wondering how to book shows smarter, not harder? The post Time is Money: How to Book Shows Smarter, Not Harder appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog. These 3 tips will streamline the process, freeing up precious brainpower to focus on other things.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hubli, an online-booking system for simple meetings, now has a tool that venues can use to display available meeting space in real time. Event-booking platform Hubli has introduced an application programming interface, or API, that allows venues to display real-time meeting-space availability from their in-house property management systems.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel has seen meeting and event bookings soar this year, with a growth of 55% ‘business on the books’ revenue from this time in 2023.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 26, 2019

Here’s a teaser: the introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need. Then buy the book ! Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing appeared first on Conferences That Work. Interested? I’ve always been curious.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Bookings are such that availability for popular dates from September this year are proving hard to find. We’re advising anyone with a specific date in mind to book at least 12 months in advance as we’re looking at a 42% increase next year in confirmed contracts as it is. Long may it continue.” www.roundhouse.org.uk

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Eventmobi

MAY 16, 2019

One of the most popular event technology tools used to increase attendee networking is appointment booking. However, even if you provide easy-to-use tools for appointment booking, attendees won’t take full advantage of the technology if they don’t know about it. Highlight when and where they can book appointments during the event.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are three burgeoning live experiences that will expand your booking calendar’s purview beyond the classic live show. The post Throw Shows and Then Some: Creative Booking Ideas for Music Venues appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog. The “experience economy” is positively booming.

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Eventory

MAY 27, 2019

If you can’t see the e-book download form please, turn off your ad blocking app. Below you’ll find the areas we described in details in The Great Book of Event KPIs. The post E-book – The Great Book of Event KPIs appeared first on Event organizer - Eventory. Event Organizer’s KPIs.

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EventMB

AUGUST 17, 2023

Skift Take: Team retreat specialist Offsite has launched a curated online marketplace that hopes to be the Airbnb of offsites and team retreats. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That’s according to predictive data company Adara , which reports that both those Western cities are down only 29 percent for business trips booked in the last two months as compared to same period in 2019. The company says these bookings “very likely reflect travel by small and medium-sized businesses.”.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

Established business authors Kevin and Sarah Duncan have combined forces to produce an essential book, The Sustainable Business Book. At the heart of the book is the PLANET System®. The PLANET System® suite of products is out now and the book will be launched on March 23 2023.

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GEVME

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Here’s a list of helpful books for event planning that may provide useful information on events organization and management and give event planners some real benefits for their business, for both corporate planners and their demanding clients. Enjoy our must-read event business books compilation. The top 20 books for event planners.

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Event Certificate

MARCH 3, 2022

We have rounded up a list of 12 favorite event planning books from some of the best authors in the industry. These books provide a comprehensive list of materials covering topics from event planning logistics to business promotion. There are many ways to learn event and wedding planning. This can […].

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Introducing EventMobi’s Appointment Booking. We’re excited to announce a new major enhancement to the EventMobi event app platform with the introduction of Appointment Booking. This new tool will help attendees connect and book one-on-one meetings with each other before and during your event.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 24, 2019

Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need I’m happy to announce that my third book Event Crowdsourcing will be released this Fall. Who should buy this book? It covers a fundamental yet neglected topic: creating meetings people actually want and need.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Eventbrite hosted the first-ever RECONVENE summit in May. The virtual networking and skillsharing event featured more than 20 talks and workshops from some of the most dynamic thinkers in the event world. We’re recapping the two-day event’s key takeaways on the blog. Watch recordings of every session here.

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Event Certificate

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

We have rounded up a list of 10 favorite event planning books from some of the best authors in the industry. These books provide a comprehensive list of materials covering topics from event planning logistics to business promotion. There are many ways to learn event and wedding planning. This can […].

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Destination partners with Convenus LLP for bespoke BookingZon offering MeetBlackpool has launched its brand-new online accommodation booking platform , which will provide event organisers with a free and secure way to book rooms, whilst receiving impartial advice on the town’s accredited hotels.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Meet Cambridge is launching a new service from February 2024, offering last minute bookings for meeting rooms from its venue portfolio for up to 20 people. Judith Sloane, Head of Meet Cambridge said: “We have recently seen a rise in requests for room-only bookings with short lead-times for smaller meetings – typically under 20 people.

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