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Meeting Profs Travel Report: Overseas Flights to Meet ‘Soaring’ Demand

Smart Meetings

22 and March 22 showed a list headed by London, Cancun, Paris, Orlando and Rome.­) meetings and events industry be volume for March. Year-over-year comparison: March 2023 event volume increased 79.6 According to United booking data, international bookings are already 15% higher than the same period in 2022.

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Incentive Travel: Interactive Connection is the Name of the Game

Smart Meetings

How can you not talk about the biggest financial event to impact our lifetimes?” Meeting planners who want to create an impactful event can look to walking tours for this kind of interactive connection.” I thought this was a travesty,” he says. Andrew put together a tour for his friend centered around the 2008 crisis.

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Will People Change Their Lifestyle for VR Events?

Endless Events

As event professionals, we’re always looking to explore new methods, techniques, and technologies to make each event better than the last. Virtual reality (VR) is a topic we often discuss on the Event Tech podcast and has been a technology growing in popularity in recent years. Will People Change Their Lifestyle for VR Events?

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Bringing the Maker Movement to Events

PCMA Convene

The fair was intended to be a place for makers to showcase their projects and have a conversation with attendees about them, even though he said he had “no idea whether the public would be interested” in such an event. There are no conferences [for educators] promoting passive learning — like put kids in seats and talk to them all day.

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Breaking Through the Mindset of Digital vs. In-person Events

PCMA Convene

recalled Ponchia Baccara, who is based in Padua, Italy, and now director of innovation and customer experience and director of international congress development at event services company AIM Group International. “And we said, ‘What if we call the speakers on Skype?’” Her top recommendations for making the most of hybrid?

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Taking Meetings and Exhibitions on the Road

PCMA Convene

The Italian Society of Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Intensive Care, and Resuscitation (SIAARTI) turned its annual meeting into a traveling event that included educational content and meetings with experts, health managers, local administrators, and sponsors in socially distanced settings. Making House Calls.

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PCMA announces 2022 Global Meetings Executive of the Year award recipient

Event Industry News

Buongiorno is Vice President, AIM Group International, a company that for over sixty years has been one of the international leaders in events and conferences. The award recognizes a business events strategist who has demonstrated a vision, commitment and passion for the advancement and education of the global meetings industry.

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