Event Industry News

JUNE 21, 2022

Following recent contract wins at three of the UK’s leading event venues, audio-visual and entertainment technology company Anna Valley has promoted Dan Orchard to the role of venue director. Over the last eighteen months, Anna Valley has established itself as a significant service provider to the UK’s venue sector.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Cardiff based creative event specialists Genero Group are thrilled to secure their first production contract to take place at the new International Conference Centre Wales. The first event is taking place in October this year and Genero is relishing in the preparation. Fit for a true celebration of achievements!

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Attendease

MARCH 19, 2024

Handling multiple events at the same time is a unique challenge for corporate event planners. When done well, running multiple events at once can help your organization scale its reach, increase engagement, and optimize resources. Read on to learn how to scale your corporate events program successfully!

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

ICC Wales has today launched its report into the positive and lasting impact of the events industry on a global scale. Exploring all these attributes, ‘Event Power: A Force for Good’ shows that events bring immeasurable benefits to people and places, and ultimately have the power to change lives and make a real difference to our world.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

Some of the host organizations were transparent and shared these reported cases with attendees. Some organizations are contracting with suppliers to manage check points for proof of vaccination, enforce mask and social distancing and even employing technology solutions for contact tracing. Others were not.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

So, in this post we’ll explore: Different types of association software you should consider When to choose individual solutions versus all-in-one AMS software The best association software for events, community management, mobile event apps , and more! What is Association Software?

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Maritz Global Events released its Industry Trends Report at IMEX America with some eye-popping data on the rising cost of hotels, airfares, F&B, and other event-budget elements. For its Industry Trends Report, October 2023 edition, Maritz Global Events crunched numbers from the U.S. Read the full report here.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Big Numbers Las Vegas Grand Prix reported a 315,000-person attendance number over the course of the event. Before the race even began, Caesars Sportsbook reported a record amount of money wagered ever for any auto race. BetMGM, Station Casinos and Westgate Superbook reported record betting for an F1 race.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

YOU Search & Select, the leading senior specialist in event and brand experience industry recruitment is pleased to share its newest quarterly report on recruitment trends for January to March 2024. To me, this represents a ‘professionalisation’ of our industry – events contracts are no longer just handed out without a PO.”

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 1, 2020

The Event Leadership Institute checks in weekly with a select group of event planning business owners across the US and Canada. Group members report on how their businesses are faring and offer coping strategies amid the massive disruption from COVID-19. We call it the Situation Room. Maintaining cash reserves.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A recent survey takes the pulse of meeting planners, asking about budgets, contracts, airfares, virtual meetings, and more. If higher costs are your challenge when executing events, one thing is for sure: You’re not alone. Contracts: The survey asked planners about their number-one concern when negotiating a contract.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 31, 2019

On this week’s Event Brew, we’re breaking down the Global Event Forum report. So, just in case you don’t know, the Global Event Forum brings together the most influential live event professionals. What Was The Global Event Forum Report All About? Are you ready?

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Event Leadership Institute

MARCH 30, 2020

The Event Leadership Institute checks in weekly with a select group of event planning business owners across the US and Canada. Group members report on how their businesses are faring and offer coping strategies amid the massive disruption from COVID-19. We call it the Situation Room. Preserving relationships.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

September 2021 — Are in-person events COVID safe? I strongly desire to be able to safely return to facilitating and attending in-person events. I have two broad concerns about Freeman’s summary of research “Inside LIVE: The data you need to navigate the Delta variant for events” on the safety of in-person events.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 27, 2019

CWT, the B2B4E travel management platform, yesterday reported a strong performance for 2018, with a significant increase in transaction volumes, sales, and revenues. . “I Contracted new sales** of US$ 1.7Bn ? CWT Meetings & Events is CWT’s meeting & events division. Total transaction volume* US$ 25Bn, a 6.1%

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MeetingsNet

JULY 10, 2023

While no progress was reported in the negotiations between the hotels and union, front-desk agents, bellhops, cooks, servers, and other hotel employees reported back to work on July 5. In those cases, a well-written force majeure clause might allow the group to cancel their contract without penalty.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Corporate events serve an important purpose — they boost brand visibility, drive revenue, and strengthen relationships with customers and employees. However, executing successful events takes more than ordering catering and sending invites. Consider asking questions like: What is the primary purpose of this event? Educational?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

When the creative brief from your initial event strategy session calls for brand and reputational impact, how do you measure if you are successful? Success was measured based on attendance, views on the videos and reported as brand deposits with “key opinion formers.”. Read more tips for negotiating contracts amid Covid. .

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

percent of respondents claim contract negotiations are becoming more complex. Today’s hotel meeting contracts are getting longer and longer and that would certainly indicate more specificity, if not more complexity. Someone planned that event, but no one checked to see if the pizzeria/game bar complied with local ordinances.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 12, 2022

The events community can learn a lot from the B2C social landscape as we navigate the ins and outs of best practices and trends for moving fence-sitters to paying registrants. We’ve culled those trends to identify five that are applicable to the B2B events industry. Top Five Trends in Social Influencing. Data rules.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

6 tips for a smooth European event from an international DMC expert If it seems to you everyone is taking their incentive meeting to Europe this year, you are not alone. News & World Report highlighted the most popular European cities for 2023 and three of the top 10 were in Italy. Explore Widely That U.S.

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TicketBud

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Imagine purchasing tickets to a highly-anticipated event promising exclusive talks with podcast celebrities and a panel with the actors from Supernatural and Harry Potter. According to a recent Maritz Industry Trends Report , most meeting expenses are up over 20 percent since before the pandemic. But, most budgets haven’t budged.

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Guidebook

JANUARY 8, 2024

Managing events is stressful. You need an event planning checklist to support you from beginning to end. From picking a venue and speakers to ensuring you’ve sent out thank you notes and running a post-event debrief, there’s a lot to think about. Since no two events are the same, you’ll undoubtedly want to remove or add items.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Westminster venue has opened the new year with new hires on the events team, in lieu of a forthcoming announcement which will broaden the Royal Horticultural Society’s events offering. Michelle Tough joins the team as event sales manager and will oversee all sales ensuring clients get the best from this adaptable historic venue.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now, the question is how to build contracts moving forward. Phoenix-based hotel attorney Lisa Devlin sat down for some rapid-fire questions about what is and isn’t working today and offered her prescription for a win-win solution to trading contract clauses. Read More : A Breakdown of Post-Pandemic Contract Clauses.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 4, 2024

Last September, Sydney, Australia-based travel-management firm FCM announced the consolidation of its various meeting and event operations in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia into a single global entity, FCM Meetings & Events.

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Gallus Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Event Manager role continues to be one of the most stressful and one of the most dynamic roles in the world. So what skills should event managers across the globe be focusing on as we get set to move into a new decade? The skills needed to be an event manager in 2020 and beyond! We must still understand contracts.

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Eved

JULY 3, 2017

Following are seven spend analysis reports you need to successfully analyze and act on your meeting and event spend. This report will provide total spend by category, such as Decor, Food and Beverage, Transportation, etc. This report should provide historical data that can act as benchmarking data, as well as trending data.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

-Third best trading year since opening in 1986- World-renowned conference, events, meetings and exhibition centre, The QEII Centre , has announced a remarkable year of business stabilisation and recovery, resulting in the Centre’s third best trading performance since opening in 1986.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Wall Street Journal also reported that “the police were confident the incident was not the result of an intentional act.”. To help you build a force-majeure clause into your event contracts that minimizes your organization’s financial risk across a range of crisis situations, check out t his MeetingsNet article.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

There are only 77 reported cases of the fourth Covid variant, Omicron, in South Africa and 19 in Botswana as of Nov. Is it time to “lift and shift” events again? In the last week, major global events , corporate events, sporting events and holiday parties across Europe and Africa have slowly been getting called off.

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Glisser

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Preparation: Review contracts, insurance, and communications. Action: Have a plan to ensure the safety of attendees, staff, and the success of the event. On Monday, the virus known as COVID-19 took the world spotlight again with reports of increased infection in major world economies including Italy and South Korea.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 10, 2023

How robust does your event network need to be, and what’s negotiable? Here are some things to consider before signing a connectivity contract. In the past year, Jay Klein planned one event where he was charged $150 for an ethernet line for a week and another where the same-size line was $2,500 per day.

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SpotMe Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Event compliance is a number one priority in the pharma industry. By understanding the event compliance landscape and working with experienced partners, life science companies can use event technology to drive engagement and enhance the experience for both HCPs and KOLs. What is pharma event compliance? Not so much.

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

This eloquently sums up what 2021 will need as we return to live events. To consider attending a live event in 2021, we will need to understand how we will remain safe across the entire journey, whether a 3-hour or a 3-day event. How will we need to respond? Shift: Personal Safety, Pandemic Style.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 27, 2022

As Official Overlay Supporter to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, GL events UK will be delivering infrastructure at as many as 11 locations, to transform Birmingham 2022 venues into Games-ready arenas, ahead of what is set to be the sporting spectacle of the summer. GL events are also looking to recruit Cluster Operations Managers.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal. As I write, two years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the world and the event industry. “ —Quote from a meeting planner’s January 2022 conference report. Conclusions.

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