Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. Jiwalai was most recently director of sales at Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach Resort in Thailand. Brandy Hudgins Hudgins has been named sales manager of small meetings for Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB).

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2023

Before moving to Texas, Lewis worked in Seattle, at Fairmont Olympic Hotel as conference service manager and Pan Pacific Hotel as senior catering sales manager. McManamon previously worked as director of conventions and tourism in Owatonna, Minnesota, as well as corporate meeting planner for DuPont Pioneer in Manktato, Minnesota.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2020

March 24th – Will and Brandt are speaking at MPI’s Northern California Annual Conference and Expo. Sahedi was in Thailand over the weekend and met the one and only, Albert Einstein ?? Sahedi was in Thailand over the weekend and met the one and only, Albert Einstein ?? Where in the world is Endless?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2022

Most recently, Codianne was director of operations at Daytona Beach Resort & Conference Center. Meliá Phuket Mai Khao in Phuket, Thailand, appointed McMillan director of sales and marketing. Most recently, McMillan was director of sales at Dream Hotel in Phuket, Thailand. Nattinee McMillan.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The meetings and events industry is currently worth U.S.$250 In APAC, we started our education journey in 2016 by supporting the Incentive, Conference & Event Society Asia Pacific (ICESAP), and following PCMA’s acquisition of ICESAP last year, we now have access to thousands of event strategists. Kerry Healy.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Two of the leading names in the meetings and incentive travel media worldwide have formed a partnership. It has experienced consultants based in the UK, USA, Germany, the Middle East and the Far East providing regional meetings industry media contacts and market knowledge. He created Social Media Chefs Ltd.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

Last month, we had the opportunity to come together as a meetings and business-events industry to promote the value of face-to-face meetings. On April 6, more than 100 events were held in nearly 25 countries across six continents as part of the second annual Global Meetings Industry Day, a Meetings Mean Business Coalition initiative.

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EncoreAPAC

DECEMBER 15, 2020

COVID restrictions left Australasian Hotel Industry Conference and Exhibition (AHICE) and Design Inn with two options, delay or continue in a unique hybrid event format. It supplies a venue, resources, hospitality, hotel rooms, networking facilities, meeting rooms and more. This made it the largest AHICE event held, ever.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The events industry talks a lot about legacies — the imprint that meetings and conferences can leave behind in host destinations. RIMS) audience, Stuart Ruff-Lyon CMP, DES, vice president of events and education at RIMS, is a making a difference for the meetings industry. that could impact my meeting products.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The events industry talks a lot about legacies — the lasting imprint that meetings and conferences leave behind in host destinations. She took a burnt-out meeting manager and empowered me to step up and step on a few colleagues’ toes along the way to execute an annual meeting. Meeting attendance hasn’t decreased.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

of ballrooms, and a 28,000-square-foot, glass-enclosed meetings and conference area. It’s a 600-square-foot venue for up to 30 persons (20 at the conference table) that affords the latest teleconferencing and audiovisual tech. The hotel offers 165 guest rooms, a 19th-floor boardroom and 300-person conference center.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

of ballrooms, and a 28,000-square-foot, glass-enclosed meetings and conference area. It’s a 600-square-foot venue for up to 30 persons (20 at the conference table) that affords the latest teleconferencing and audiovisual tech. The hotel offers 165 guest rooms, a 19th-floor boardroom and 300-person conference center.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 3, 2017

Deep local expertise is also how Sehgal, who is managing director, Asia-Pacific and Japan, strategy and innovation, for the business-intelligence firm ORC International, came to be the opening speaker for the 2017 PCMA Global Professionals Conference – APAC, which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

In the world of business events, VR is already transforming how some destination marketing organizations work with meeting planners, from saving time and money on sites visits, to creating jaw-dropping experiences at shows. And Los Angeles hotel videos are available on the Meet L.A. MobiManage developed the Meet L.A.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 15, 2018

In conjunction with independent research firm YouGov, Agoda collected data from 10,384 respondents from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and China. Planners should supply meeting attendees with a tip sheet of what is culturally acceptable in the destination.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Beach cleanups in Thailand? More business elements: Combining a meeting and the incentive to share business messages. Janet Traphagen, immediate past chair of IRF and president of Creative Group, an award-winning designer of incentive programs as well as other meetings and events, has seen it all in her 25 years in the industry.

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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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Hubilo Blog

JANUARY 22, 2019

In VG 2019, the partner countries included Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Japan, Morocco, Norway, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, The Netherlands, UAE, and Uzbekistan. The entries were first approved by the organizing committee and they were then allowed access to register for seminars and meetings.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

While growth factors such as sports arenas, festivals and large conference spaces can “enhance the positioning of a destination,” of equal importance is the city’s ability to increase ease of access and accommodation availability, both of which are significant factors in shaping a city’s visitation numbers.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 27, 2020

Velvet Chainsaw Consulting’s Sarah Michel, upper left, talked with Colleen Creighton, executive director of the American Academy of Suicidology (AAS), and bottom, Jonathan Singer, the AAS board president about the association’s successful digital meeting. People were not happy,” Singer said. “We

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Plan Your Meetings

MAY 30, 2017

There remains a litany of conferences for meeting and event professionals to receive education and valuable networking throughout the duration of 2017. This list does not contain every single conference for event planners, but we feel that these are the main ones you should have on your radar. PCMA Education Conference.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Wonderfruit Festival in Thailand, December 2019, raised yet another level and received a Commended AGF Award. The AGF festival group meetings have been to ensure that festivals come back even more sustainable than before, by protecting and enhancing actions, and sharing knowledge towards greener future events.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

This month, the Aloha State will host World Conservation Congress (WCC) 2016 and its estimated 10,000 attendees — representing not only the first time the group meets in the United States in its 68-year history, but the largest conservation event ever to be hosted by a U.S. WCC will meet for the first time on U.S. destination.

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Connect Your Meetings

MARCH 27, 2019

At an industry conference or event, you can typically find me… spending time with my team members and our customers. The destination at the top of my travel bucket list is… Southeast Asia: Thailand and Vietnam. Think popsicle-stick-picture frame filled with his 4-year-old smiling face. My nickname in high school was… Reg.

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Eventtia

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For example, a conference may be hosted in person in a traditional conference hall, but it is also live-streamed so people who can’t or won’t visit the conference hall can also “attend” the event online simultaneously with in-person attendees. Type of event: will this be a single-day conference? Demographics data, etc.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This year, 44 venues from the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, China and India participated in the 142-question Green Venue Report survey, providing the most comprehensive collection of results yet on topics ranging from food waste to energy efficiency and sustainability.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The most authoritative 2019 tech conferences directory on the web. Or looking to wrap up 2018 with an exceptional conference? This carefully curated conference directory features over 200 (and growing) 2019 tech conferences across multiple industries. In other instances, summits function exactly like conferences.

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JULY 3, 2019

I had a mid-life crisis at 29 I sold my business, teaching swimming in Thailand and had returned to South Africa to a terrible divorce. . I needed more time and to meet more people. I grew up mindful that I had nothing to fall back on and you never know what’s around the corner. I had to look after myself financially.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2022

Austin joined Fairmont Dallas as director of catering and conference services. Banyan Tree Krabi welcomed Fisher as general manager of the Thailand property. Previously, he oversaw the opening of Angsana Teluk Bahang, Penang in northern Thailand. Tanner Austin. Nigel Fisher.

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