Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Anderson serves on the board of directors for United States Travel Association (USTA), is an executive committee member of Meetings Mean Business Coalition, co-chair of USTA CEO Roundtable and is a member on Destination International’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Ellen LaMaire.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 14, 2019

Louisville, Kentucky, is recognized as an international destination for festival events—most notably the Kentucky Derby—and conferences like Connect 2019. See what awaits you this August. Soak it all up while you’re there for Connect in August. Go ahead and live like a local for a little while. The Best of Louisville: Food.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Connect is looking to honor 15 event professionals who have spent their career moving the meetings industry forward. Honorees will be recognized in the print editions of Connect’s magazine, on our websites and at Connect’s annual conference, held Aug. 26-28, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 8, 2019

Louisville, Kentucky, is recognized as an international destination for festival events—most notably the Kentucky Derby—and conferences like Connect 2019. See what awaits you this August.

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Connect Your Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Who knew conference crashing could be a good thing? are rethinking typical site visits, instead organizing them in conjunction with conferences and events they’re hosting. The post Trend Alert: Conference Crashing appeared first on Connect Association. Cities and venues across the U.S. Photo credit: Bustle.com.

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EventMB

JUNE 15, 2022

When bourbon maker Old Forester started offering alcohol-free mint juleps at the Kentucky Derby, it became clear that non-alcoholic beverages had become a thing. The post How Events Can Make Non-Drinkers Feel Included appeared first on Skift Meetings. There are plenty of reasons to provide non-alcoholic (NA) alternatives at events.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It’s this easy access—combined with Kentucky Exposition Center with its 1.3 million square feet of exhibition space and reputation for hosting premier spectator events like the Kentucky Derby—that has helped build the city’s long-standing reputation for the convention market. Louis and five hours from Chicago. Center Stage.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2018

From the excitement of Palm Springs International Film Festival to the fascinating cities of South Korea, the Smart Meetings editorial staff was busy traveling throughout the world in 2018 to bring back ideas and inspiration about destinations for you to consider for upcoming meetings and events.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 22, 2017

These seven wine cellar meeting venues prove that groups don’t have to head to Napa or Bordeaux to gather among grapes. Set in the foothills of the Andes Mountains amid Argentina’s Uco Valley wine-growing region, Casa de Uco Resort ’s underground wine cave, pictured above, is the ideal space for secluded meetings. Casa de Uco.

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Unique Venues

AUGUST 22, 2022

Chicago Southland Dazzles with Unique Meeting Spaces. The Chicago Southland is enthusiastically ready to assist you in planning your regional meetings and events! We pride ourselves on stellar service and going the extra mile in assisting all planners, regardless of meeting or event size. Guided tours are available as well.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It’s this easy access—combined with Kentucky Exposition Center with its 1.3 million square feet of exhibition space and reputation for hosting premier spectator events like the Kentucky Derby—that has helped build the city’s long-standing reputation for the convention market. Louis and five hours from Chicago. Center Stage.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

1 in Louisville, Kentucky. Part of the 19 th -annual Teams Conference (TC) , a sports industry conference and expo, the forum is a collaboration between TC and Sports Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA). The conference runs Oct. Answering those questions is the impetus behind the first U.S.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Cities with the largest convention centers and most hotels aren’t always the best cities for conferences. SmartAsset cited San Antonio’s number of large event spaces, including the 65,000-seat Alamodome, as one of the key reasons for being the top city for conferences. ” Top 25 Best Cities for Conferences.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2022

She has previously been executive director of Sumba Hospitality Foundation in Indonesia, F&B manager for Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, conference services manager for Riviera Palm Springs and more. Louisville Tourism in Kentucky welcomed Runyon as destination services manager. Chris Rynkiewicz. Melea Runyon.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 18, 2017

Although reservations are already booked for the big day in August, many of these sites are also great places to hold meetings another time. Custom eclipse glasses with a brand, company or event name printed on them would be a great promotional item to give out at meetings leading up to August 21. of meeting space and 125 guest rooms.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Cities with the largest convention centers and most hotels aren’t always the best cities for conferences. SmartAsset cited San Antonio’s number of large event spaces, including the 65,000-seat Alamodome, as one of the key reasons for being the top city for conferences. ” Top 25 Best Cities for Conferences.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

ShelbyKY Tourism has hired Dennison as its sales coordinator for the Shelbyville Conference & Welcome Center in Kentucky. The post Smart Moves in Timber Cove, Tourism Western Australia and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Lynsey Dennison. Brent Lessing and Natalie White.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2018

It was to consist of multiple exhibition halls, a 24,000-square-foot ballroom, 18 meeting rooms and Centre for Dialogue, which would accommodate meetings in the round. of meeting space. New exhibition halls, meeting rooms, an outdoor terrace, banquet space and cafe and bar were also added. After adding 215,278 sq.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Connect announces the home of its 2019 trademark event as Louisville, Kentucky. The appointment-only trade show brings together the most active planners, suppliers and experts in association, corporate, expo, sports and specialty meetings for one-on-one Marketplace appointments. “We ” The announcement was made Sept.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 11, 2017

In Kentucky, another of the banned states, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer called the travel ban a “real threat to our growing tourism economy” after a hotel in the city announced it had lost two conventions as a result. “We ” He urged state leaders to rework the language of the Kentucky law that spurred the California ban.

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Connect Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

We went to Pittsburgh in June for the Association of Luxury Suite Directors Conference and Tradeshow, which has something called the Suite of the Future. The post Meet Monsieur, the World’s First Automatic Bartender appeared first on Connect Association. Where has Monsieur been exhibited? What venues have used Monsieur machines?

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Meet the “In-Crowd,” our 2019 Connect Association 40 Under 40. 31 • Associate Manager of Meetings. Destination Tahoe Meetings & Events. 33 • Senior Manager, Meetings and Events. 37 • Director of Education and Meetings. 35 • Director, Meetings & Conventions. 34 • Meeting Planner. Alena Frey.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2018

They are proactively changing the world for the better through conference, meetings and other events. Meet the next generation of leaders, these “Class Acts.” 37 • Conference and Events Manager. 26 • Conference Services Manager. 29 • Director of Sales—Meetings and Events, Americas. 33 • Meeting Planner.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2017

These top-tier cities are meetings hotspots, with enough convention space and hotel rooms to accommodate thousands of attendees at any given time, plus the cultural amenities and intangible cachet to keep them around. Convene recently spoke with representatives from three such cities that recently have hosted renowned international meetings.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

And while food- and drink-focused trails may initially have been designed with leisure travelers in mind, they’re now being used to entice business travelers and meetings as well. When people are here for a conference, they want to experience the city beyond the meeting-room walls,” Robinson said. BARREL TASTING.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 25, 2017

But at the heart of it all is the completely renovated and expanded Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC). Inside, KICC will feature over 200,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space, a 40,000 square foot ballroom and 52 meeting rooms. population, has transformed into one of the most unique cities in the nation.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

All 4,000 of the attendees at Connect 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, can attest that this year’s conference was our best. Engagement and activations were at an all-time high. It’s safe to say our partners—you!—really really came through for what was a thrilling three days.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 5, 2017

Four more modular hotels are under way—Courtyard Pullman in Washington, AC Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, AC Louisville in Kentucky and AC Chapel Hill in North Carolina. The innovation was featured at Marriott’s Connect 2017 conference in Los Angeles for hotel developers.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 1, 2023

Especially in the wake of devastation to the meetings and hospitality industry wreaked by the pandemic, leadership insights are relevant and needed. Lessons in 5 Answers What about the meetings and hospitality industry keeps you up at night? Where can the collective industry make the greatest difference in growing the meetings pie?

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2018

As a new Connect employee and a first-timer at the event, I was shocked not only by how much went into putting on a conference of this size, but also impressed by how many attendees Connect personally touches and connects (no pun intended). If there is one thing I learned from the event, it is that Connect knows how to throw a great party.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Neff has been a tradeshow and conference operations coordinator with Informa for three years. In this position, she will help lead San Antonio’s Destination Experience team in providing support for large meeting groups and forming partnerships with San Antonio’s meeting clients. Matthias Schultze.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 26, 2016

And on virtually every corner, there are new meeting spaces, hotels, local award-winning restaurants, micro-distilleries, Bourbon tasting rooms and one-of-a-kind cultural experiences. > 52 meeting rooms. > > 175-seat state-of-the-art conference theatre. > > 52 meeting rooms. >

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Expo Pass

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

New year, new conferences! Whether you’re looking to meet influential planners, improve networking skills, learn about emerging technologies, or simply reconnect with planner besties, this list of 2024 conferences and trade shows has something for everyone. It’s the event planning conference to attend in North America.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 5, 2019

So, let’s get this post-conference or post-business meeting party started. The world’s very first Kentucky Fried Chicken is here. Well, at least as it pertains to meeting venues.) It boasts nearly 1 million square feet and offers the perfect combination of meeting rooms, exhibit halls, ballrooms, and open spaces.

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TicketBud

JUNE 7, 2019

The things that are happening in Gerry’s home town in Kentucky are happening across the US and around the world. As demand grew to hear him speak, he also got feedback that some fans couldn’t afford the conferences. The things that educators deal with are often universal. This led Gerry to start his own event series on the weekends.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Omni Hotels & Resorts has 60 luxury hotels and resorts in leading business and leisure destinations throughout North America, including new hotels with state-of-the-art conference centers in Atlanta, Louisville and Frisco, Texas. The post Omni Launches Planner Loyalty Program appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Canadian Special Events

JANUARY 26, 2017

Prepare for international fusions where combining foods from two different cultures will result in unique dishes like Patiala Perogies where Poland meets India. There has also been a lifestyle shift to healthier foods and this has impacted how chefs are designing their menus, in particular for corporate meetings, conferences, etc.

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