Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Von Susskind is hotel manager of Mandarin Oriental, Boston. Barton is area director of sales and marketing for Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino at Squaw Creek in Incline Village, Nevada; Barton previously worked as the property’s director of sales and marketing. Alexander von Susskind. Ashlee Barton.

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APRIL 6, 2023

United Adds New Non-Stops to 100+ International Cities This Summer to Meet ‘Soaring Overseas Travel Demand’ United Airlines has announced that it will fly to 114 different international cities this summer and has expanded its flying by 25% versus last year to meet the sharp increase in demand for travel outside of the U.S.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Lizzie Fillo Lizzie Fillo, Visit Salt Lake (VSL) Fillo joins Visit Salt Lake (VSL) as associate vice president of marketing. She will oversee the organization’s core marketing functions and lead strategic initiatives to develop its brand identity and narrative. Her work earned her awards, including most effective creative by Ad Week.

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Event Farm

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Tomorrow we’re kicking off our Tour D’States roadshow on the east coast, hosting our first event on our home turf in Washington, DC, before we head to NYC and Boston. Rachel Dobroth, Director, Meetings and Events at Social Tables. Jen Reddy, VP Marketing at IdeaPaint. Rebecca Linder, CEO and founder, Linder Global Events.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2023

Smart Meetings zeroed in on the top domestic Labor Day destinations and the activities throughout the United States that meeting planners may want to utilize if they’re in the area. of meeting space, which also includes a 2,800-square-foot grand ballroom, as well as 362 guest rooms and suites. Boston Park Plaza has 70,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Rioux is director of sales and marketing for InterContinental Washington D.C.—The and director of sales and marketing at Rosewood Hotel Washington D.C. Sirmons is director of sales and marketing for The Art Hotel Denver, Curio Collection by Hilton. Tiffany Rioux. and Capella Hotel Washington D.C. Amy Sirmons. James Montgomery.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

Sheridan President and CEO of Meet Boston and co-chair, Meetings Mean Business Coalition What does the official end of Covid mean for the meetings industry? Read More : Event Safety PSA: Failing to Prepare Could Cost You Mark Cooper CEO of IACC What does the official end of Covid mean for the meetings industry?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 15, 2023

What elements should meeting planners look for when sourcing to forge better group connections With the focus on the return of meetings, many meeting planners are seeking unforgettable locations for their next event that will provide ease and accessibility for their attendees.

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Bizzabo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Yesterday we had the chance to help produce ABM by the Numbers—an educational event dedicated to account-based marketing best practices. Account-based marketing” is all the rage right now. Likewise, those who practice ABM know that it is also much less than an established marketing science. Here are our top takeaways.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Attending conferences is one of the best ways to stay ahead in the ever-changing marketing industry. At these events, you will learn from the top industry executives while networking with marketing professionals just like yourself. 2019 Marketing Conferences. 2019 Marketing Conferences. Growth Marketing Conference.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Emergencies have hit meeting and catering professionals since the first ballroom was constructed. The first regional SEARCH event is being planned in Boston on January 25, 2022. The post New SEARCH Board Pledges to Continue Helping Meeting Profs appeared first on Smart Meetings. overall,” says Patay. .

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Scott Kawasaki Scott Kawasaki, Renaissance Honolulu Hotel & Spa Renaissance Honolulu Hotel & Spa appoints Kawasaki as director of sales and marketing. Christy Loy Christy Loy, Meet Minneapolis Loy takes on the role of senior vice president of destination sales at Meet Minneapolis. Before joining Play Social Inc.,

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Hard Rock International named Williams director of global sales for meetings and events. Before joining One11, Miller was hotel manager and director of sales and marketing for The Old No. Ouachani is general manager and Cortese is director of sales and marketing for Motto by Hilton New York City Chelsea. Shelley Williams.

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This month we spoke with Britta Schellenberg, VP of Corporate Marketing Operations at Brightcove about scaling an event strategy, partnering with other events and getting the most out of video content. Over eight years ago, the video platform-provider Brightcove staged their first PLAY event in Boston. Setting event goals.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 5, 2022

Meet with Momentum Boston, the second installment of a new event series by Marriott that began this June, continued the brand’s mission to educate meeting and event planners in its redevelopment projects—from convention resorts to spaces to food and beverage—and to empower planners amid a booming return to meetings.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2022

The Langham, Boston. Downtown’s The Langham, Boston has expanded its meeting and event spaces with the addition of the Wilson Ballroom and Promenade to the historic property. This color palette, combined with the blue of the carpet, represents the building’s history as the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the nearby harbor.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 18, 2021

Virtual meeting platforms are buying, acquiring, partnering and otherwise conjoining with in-person meeting producers to offer full-service, integrated hybrid capabilities. What will that mean for meeting professionals? See Defining the Future of Meetings below for more on Intrado’s approach to hybrid.).

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Cvent: Event Marketing

AUGUST 31, 2018

Boston is one of the most dynamic cities in the world, thanks to its rich network of colleges, world-class research hospitals, biotech infrastructure, life-sciences startups, and fertile ground for venture capital. The city incubates innovation, and events hosted in Boston absorb this spirit. Plan your next meeting in Boston.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 26, 2023

Smart Meetings asked Dr. Arun Upneja, Dean of the School of Hospitality Administration (SHA) at Boston University, if the push toward more extreme experiences is being felt in incentive travel , where the goal is to provide singular and high-end experiences for corporate stakeholders and sales staff. represents 1.2 million of the 1.4

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

In this role, he will lead the Northeastern teams in New York, Boston and Washington D.C. Throughout his 20 years of experience in hotel sales, meetings and events, he has led award winning sales teams at large North American hotel brands. Cory Rosenberg Cory Rosenberg, PRA Rosenberg joins PRA as regional vice president.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2019

The solution the Boston-based duo has come up with is to take conversations outside. “I The first of a forthcoming fleet of mobile private meeting space is now up and running in Boston. Think of it as the food truck of meeting space. I remember my days working tradeshows in the candy industry.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Even for planners at the top of their game, the current meeting climate has created new levels of stress—the result of severe hotel booking compression, high turnover in supplier staff, and short meeting lead times. Post pandemic, a lot of faces have changed; a lot of meetings have changed. We have new internal stakeholders.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Content marketing is a key tactic for transforming a one-off event into the year-round, content-rich, relevant, and reliable brand your attendees crave. Laudenslager IV, MBA, president of Charge Ahead Marketing, during a recent MeetingsNet webinar. The way you deliver that consistent value, he said, is through content marketing.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Boarding the bus from Montreal to Boston. During a livestream hosted by PCMA back in 2013, Marie Lou Coupal, CMP, struck up a conversation with other meeting professionals in the group chat. “I When she got a lot of “yes” replies, Coupal threw out the idea of getting a bus so they could all travel to Boston together. “I

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, has named Clark senior sales executive; she will focus on the New England market. Most recently, Clark was senior sales executive for The Westin Boston Seaport District. Scarborough previously worked as coordinator of visitor marketing for Visit Mesa.

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Expo Pass

JUNE 1, 2021

The only problem is marketing in-person events in 2021 is a whole different story. Here are our top tips for marketing your hybrid or in-person event in 2021 and beyond. The New York Times recently pointed out that Eurovision’s 2021 event (which was the first major in-person awards show in 2021) lacked any visible big-brand marketing.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Resilient meetings drive the achievement of collective as well as individual objectives. Fortunately, meeting professionals are — by temperament and experience — resilient. But what if you started making your meeting itself resilient? But what if you started making your meeting itself resilient? They are about outcomes.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You’d think that, given that the Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council reports that “meetings generated $1,294 of spending per participant,” event and meeting planners would be given budgetary free rein to produce the kinds of events needed to generate these economic returns. Shrinking Budgets. Event Personalization.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 21, 2023

The event app is live, hundreds of appointments have been pre-booked, and The Meetings Show 2023 is now just a week away. Quality hosted buyers The Meetings Show attracts a high calibre of hosted buyers and this year is no exception.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

She will draw on her over 20 years of group sales experience, including many in both the Southern California and Southwest regions for luxury hotels, to lead one of the group’s largest markets. Emma York Emma York, Visit Laguna Beach Visit Laguna Beach appoints York as director of marketing.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When 684 meetings industry leaders met in Boston this week for Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals’ (FICP) 2022 Annual Conference, the theme at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport was “Creating Our New History” and set milestones—they did. Loneliness is causing massive health and productivity problems. Jennifer C.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 5, 2020

Meeting planners also learn by watching others doing. That is why, in this time of repackaging grand destination programs to fit onto confined computer screens, a great way to avoid mistakes is to study how our peers are shape-shifting to meet COVID-era standards. That left Artura no choice but to reinvent her plan.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe has hired Munos as director of sales and marketing. Munos has held several leadership positions with Marriott International, including director of sales and marketing, account executive, senior sales executive and director of group sales. as chief marketing officer. Adam Resnick.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2021

Set to open this August, the 45-story, 510-room hotel is within walking distance of neighborhood favorites such as Chelsea Market and The Highline. Amenities include a cozy sofa-sleeper in every guest room, a 24-hour gym, 24-hour market, free Wi-Fi and a breakfast bar. Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites Boston Seaport , Massachusetts.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? The Boston Consulting Group projects the global market for robotics to reach $87 billion by 2025. Personalized Marketing. Why I Have My Eye on AI. Janelle Shane. David McMillin.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Across the hospitality industry, meetings and large-scale events play a significant role in the success of hotels, restaurants, clubs—really any venue. Meeting planners can save both time and budget by leveraging the hotel’s suggested menu rather than outsourcing food and beverage.

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