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. The API covers both instant book and RFPs so they can decide to connect both or start with RFP only.” According to Delaney, “Adoption is high. …

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EventMB

APRIL 6, 2023

Make the most of it by utilizing venue sourcing technology to cut through the clutter and book your meeting essentials at record speed, leaving you free to get back to what you do best: creating event magic. Groups360 Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Time is a planner’s most precious resource.

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Planning Pod

MAY 7, 2024

Event and venue businesses traditionally tend to rely on static pricing models…in other words, setting a fixed price for packages regardless of the season or other fluctuations impacting demand. While this approach offers simplicity, it fails to help your business benefit from the dynamic nature of the event industry.

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Expo Pass

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We should start by saying that venues everywhere have put in tons of work to be able to host literally any kind of event right now. Whatever you are planning — in-person, virtual, or hybrid — there is a venue that can help make it happen. Either may be fine, but you’ll want to know before booking. .

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

and Canada, Marriott International Non-Traditional Venues: Our teams have received increasing requests for nontraditional venues, outdoor setups and reimagined creative spaces. Julius Robinson, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, U.S.

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Picatic by Eventbrite

JUNE 13, 2018

Planning an event is a long and arduous task that’s incredibly rewarding when finished. One of the main tasks that you need to prepare for is booking an event venue. It could be a conference, a meeting, or a corporate event. Finding the right venue for your event is a huge undertaking.

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

7 Chicago Meeting Venues to Book in 2023 Chicagoland, The Windy City, Chi-Town, Bean Town…whatever you call it, we at Unique Venues think it’s one of the best Midwest locations for Chicago meeting venues. It is impossible not to enjoy yourself at this unique and laugh-inducing Chicago venue!

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The bureau for meetings and conferences in Cambridge and the surrounding area is announcing its 2024 programme of Opendoors events, giving event organisers the opportunity to enjoy an exclusive look at venues in its portfolio. Meeting the managers personally has been a highlight too.

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Planning Pod

APRIL 11, 2024

Online directories often provide a cost-effective – and generally effective – marketing opportunity for venue and event businesses. Here’s a quick list of online directories worth considering when it comes to listing your venue and event business and services. Yelp : This one might surprise you!

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In honor of President’s Day, we couldn’t resist sharing some of our favorite “presidential venues” to host professional meetings and trainings, corporate functions, and team-building experiences. Three of these venues are also featured on the Unique Venues’ On the Road – Washington, D.C.

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Unique Venues

MAY 2, 2024

Chicagoland, The Windy City, Chi-Town, Bean Town…whatever you call it, we at Unique Venues think it’s one of the best Midwest locations for Chicago meeting venues. It is impossible not to enjoy yourself at this unique and laugh-inducing Chicago venue! WhirlyBall Chicago: It’s not a party unless it’s a WhirlyBall party!

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

Will GroupSync Marketplace act as Expedia for meetings? Groups360 announced this week that Choice Hotels worldwide will be offering online instant booking for group guest rooms through their proprietary GroupSync Marketplace. This puts the hospitality technology platform one step closer to being the Expedia of meeting planning.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

An Advisory Board, representing a collective buying power of £320m, has been established for GRATIS, the end-to-end sourcing and booking tool provided by venuedirectory.com. At the inaugural meeting, Instant Book topped the agenda as part of the group’s drive to progress venue booking.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Non-Traditional Venues Muir, Autograph Collection Our teams have received increasing requests for nontraditional venues, outdoor setups and reimagined creative spaces. Demand for large events has been so strong that we’re currently working with customers to secure availability into future years during peak times in key markets.

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EventMB

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Skift Take: Meeting planners are facing shorter lead times while also working to meet higher expectations on almost every front. Here are the strategies and tools that will help you source venues as efficiently as possible — without ever missing a beat. Stova Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The experience of booking small meetings has been supercharged for 2023 with the introduction of Instant Book at Best Western Hotels & Resorts. The hotel group, which has over 250 properties in the UK, is the latest venue group to sign up to venuedirectory.com’s Instant Book platform. www.venuedirectory.com

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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. The hotel’s growth in M&E can be attributed to the team’s focus on customer service, and specifically, response times.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Venues Collection has launched the ‘Meetings for Change Plus’ event packages, empowering organisers with options that are not only good for the planet but good for the mind and body too. This special offer is valid for events and training sessions booked in the January to March 2024 period.

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Skift

JANUARY 22, 2020

Meeting to bring participants from various country programmes of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) & WSSCC. wsscc / Flickr Skift Take: Instant booking has allowed co-working spaces and boutique venues to reach more planners. Now, more hotels are expected to go digital.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 8, 2024

Venues of Excellence prides itself in inviting independent, diverse and unique venues into its portfolio, and The Jocky Club Rooms is exactly that, an historic venue with versatile space within the unique setting of the spiritual home of British Horseracing in Newmarket.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design! Unlike previous such events at which scientists had endlessly presented papers about their own work, Humboldt put together a very different programme. Cross-disciplinary. New insights-oriented.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Venues Collection has become the first UK venue chain to remove dairy from all dessert menus across all its five venues. This groundbreaking move is expected to save over 42 tonnes of CO2 on event menus alone in 2024. Our focus is always to do everything we can to make the event booking process as easy as possible.”

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 17, 2020

COVID-19 has virtually eliminated in-person meetings: our industry’s bread and butter. In order to overcome the many significant challenges created by the coronavirus, the meeting industry has made valiant efforts to rethink in-person meetings. Why in-person meetings do not make sense in a COVID-19 environment.

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Event Industry News

JULY 14, 2021

Make Venues has seen more than £1m of confirmed meetings business across its three sites, since the unveiling of the UK roadmap in March. The group believes that it is this investment that have contributed to the £1m figure, which includes bookings across training, meetings, conferences and hybrid events.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

How can we provide new experiences at meetings? Providing new experiences at meetings can be as simple as this. This universal fear is the reason the meeting industry continues to struggle with incorporating new experiences into events. How to provide valuable new experiences at meetings. Something deeper.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. For the short-term, request for proposals ( RFPs ) do not look dramatically different, if they’re being submitted at all, but there is great optimism that event disruptions and “new normal” considerations will not persist into future-year events.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2024

Unique International Destinations for Meetings Small and Large Meetings are something to get excited about. When that meeting is taking place in a sought-after destination, that excitement goes through the roof. of meeting spaces have all been re-designed, and 269 guest rooms and 45 suites have been fully refurbished.

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Skift

JANUARY 22, 2020

UNIS Vienna / Flickr Skift Take: As instant booking grows slowly among hotel chains, more boutique venues and co-working spaces are finding traction on digital sourcing platforms. 20 December 2019: Eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in Abu Dhabi.

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Find Unique Venues, Meet to Your Own Drum As a seasoned event planner, finding the perfect meeting space is crucial to creating an event that resonates with your clients and attendees. By deviating from the standard hotel meeting room, you can curate an experience that is memorable and sets your event apart!

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Small meetings accounted for 82 per cent of bookings going through the venuedirectory.com in the last 12 months, a year when volumes have exceeded 2019 levels,” reports Michael Begley, managing director of venuedirectory.com. It’s further proof that people still want to meet in person.”. The snowball is starting to roll.”.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

etc.venues saw a noticeable increase in bookings for meetings and events for both its UK and New York venues immediately after the news of the imminent availability of a Covid 19 vaccine. etc.venues has continued to host many meetings for less than 30 people throughout recent months, both in-person and hybrid.

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Conference Care

APRIL 24, 2024

WHAT IS A VENUE FOR GOOD? Our Venue For Good initiative recognises Venues that go above and beyond to have a positive impact on our industry, our environment, and our communities. We assess each venue in line with the UN sustainability goals and take into account any existing accreditations. WHY CARDEN PARK?

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Traditional showcase events are failing to meet the expectations of 81% of event buyers research by The Delegate Wranglers and CUSTARD has found. Furthermore, event buyers are only accepting one in five of the showcase invites they receive each month, meaning venues have to work hard from the outset to boost attendance figures.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Lime Venue Portfolio has launched a new initiative to meeting and event organisers that will underline its commitment to sustainability within the industry. Meetings for Change has now taken the learnings from this, and other initiatives within the business, and grounded them in a series of commitments to its customers.

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Endless Events

JUNE 13, 2022

In-person events are back and they’re smaller and more local than ever. In 2022, they will keep moving out of impersonal hotel ballrooms to more unique venues. One of the biggest event trends in 2022 is sourcing venues with character. The Van Buren team can also help with event production.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Arena Racing Group (ARC), the UK’s largest racecourse group, boasting 21 venues and 16 premier racecourses nationwide, has launched ‘Step Into Summer’ – a Wellness-inspired experience at meetings and conferences this summer. An example route at ARC’s Lingfield Park Resort in Surrey is a 30-minute 1.4-mile

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Unique Venues

MAY 10, 2024

In the capital of Illinois where history meets romance, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum stands as an extraordinary venue that has rightfully earned the Planner’s Choice Award for Weddings. The post The Planner’s Choice Venue for Weddings appeared first on Unique Venues.

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