Smart Meetings
MARCH 4, 2022
A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. What hasn’t varied is the desire around the world to visit California for business, pleasure or both. Visit California’s Outlook Forum.
The Castle Group
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
States such as Hawaii, Nevada, and Louisiana have shifted back to requiring masks to be worn at all times indoors, regardless of vaccination status. Along with the mask mandate, California will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test within 72 hours of an indoor event with 1,000 attendees or more.
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Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 3, 2018
After nearly two months, striking hotel workers at seven San Francisco hotels operated by Marriott International have settled on a new labor contract. The others were in three more California cities—Oakland, San Jose and San Diego—as well as Boston, Detroit and two Hawaii islands, Maui and Oahu.
Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Planners with upcoming meetings in Southern California should watch developments there closely in the next few days or weeks. 6, 7,500 employees at 24 hotels across several hotel companies in Los Angeles and Orange counties voted to strike if a new contract was not ratified by yesterday. cities and Hawaii.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Hawaii requires a temperature screening upon arrival, and vaccinated travelers must show proof of vaccination and either an NAAT or antigen negative test result from within the last 72 hours. Hawaii also accepts digital vaccination records through the travel health pass apps CLEAR, CommonPass and AZOVA.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
The first week of November, the union announced that it had agreed to contracts in Oakland, California and Detroit, but 7,000 employees were still on strike at Marriott properties in California, Hawaii and Boston. Additionally, in Oakland, California, minimum wage amendment Measure Z passed with 74 percent approval.
SmartMeetings
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Success is not about what happens, but how you deal with it,” quips Robb Thornsberry, founder of Anaheim, California-based Infinity Events, as a prelude to sharing the story of the time a cold front almost grounded a carefully planned magical experience in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Gold Medal Reflexes. Unfortunately, that was not to be.
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