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TWT: Monkeypox May Be a Red Herring, Bleisure Booms

Smart Meetings

Bottom line for meeting planners: As Covid-19 rates increase around the country, plan for potentially masking in group settings, especially in the winter months. Some meeting planners are addressing these concerns by writing amenity guarantees into contracts to provide a more desirable and consistent experience for attendees.

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What’s the Economic Impact of the Meetings Industry?

PCMA Convene

In terms of jobs, the meetings and events industry creates more direct jobs than large manufacturing sectors such as automotive, chemicals, and food. The industry also employs more workers than the telecommunications sector or oil and gas. The new report shows that the meetings industry is as strong as ever, and it continues to grow.”.

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Breaking Down Bandwidth: 4 Things You Need to Know

PCMA Convene

It’s usually the biggest factor in calculating the cost to bring Wi-Fi to a meeting. Despite what most venues want you to believe, you are not required to adhere to their “exclusive” arrangements with in-house telecommunications or audiovisual providers. However, bandwidth is actually the stuff that makes Wi-Fi work.

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Get Smart! There Was Never a Better Time to Up Your Game

SmartMeetings

An experiential event strategist for an association for the past five years, she’s just become associate vice president overseeing events at Women in Cable Telecommunications, in Washington, D.C. in meeting and event management. One aspect of the industry you won’t learn much about yet in the CMP curriculum is the virtual meeting.

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