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How to Book Entertainment for Your Next Event

Glow Global Events

Once you’ve decided on the type of entertainment that fits your event, it’s time to find the right talent. Here are some tips for booking entertainment: 1. Identify a representative: To find the perfect entertainment for your event, you’ll need to identify an agent or management company that represents them.

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Feast It raises €5m to continue disruption of €900bn global events industry

Event Industry News

Feast It, a marketplace enabling people to discover and book the dream suppliers for their events, has raised €5m in an oversubscribed venture-led round to continue its modernisation of the €900bn global events industry. The round follows a quarter that saw 2300% growth and over a million people attending its events.

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Podcast: Passion Projects—Helping Others Build Event Careers, with Sara Gorlick of Rakuten

Event Marketer

Starting as an event coordinator in the health care sector, Sara Gorlick discovered an unexpected passion for planning events and conferences. Now, almost 20 years later, Gorlick is vp-events at Rakuten, where she has worked for 14 years.

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Four Business Travel Trends and Forecasts Impacting Events in 2024

Event Marketer

The Global Business Travel Association’s annual report and forecast cites factors other than the pandemic’s influence for creating a “dynamic environment” in business travel spend and booking. Bleisure’ is influencing how your event attendees are booking travel. percent increase in hotel rates.

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The hidden steps to avoiding problems with your virtual or hybrid event

Event Industry News

Considering the industry’s current needs for education, we at EventsCase expect a huge appetite for virtual and hybrid-related content when Event Tech Live opens its digital doors on November 2. Perhaps on your 50th time out, working with the same tech platform, it shouldn’t be too hard to get everything in order. Time zones.

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Hamilton Event Agency Awarded for “Pivot” to Help Save Lives

Smart Meetings

The global event marketing agency Hamilton has been recognized with an EDDIE award for an exceptionally smart move in February. The company transitioned from immersive brand events to vaccination events. Event on Ivy Tech Community College campus in Sellersburg; Photo credit: Courtney Cantor.

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Pandemic Planning 101 from Million Dollar Event Career Course

Smart Meetings

Now Global Head of Events, Training and Certification at Amazon Web Services, she has realized that the challenges meeting professionals are facing and the way they are learning has changed since she published her book pre-Covid. Event planners don’t always have time to go to a class or read a book.