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Meeting Planners: Staying ahead of the ever-shifting COVID landscape

The Castle Group

With Labor Day symbolically closing out the summer season and ushering in fall – a prime meetings and convention time – organizations are trying to decide on the best approach to gathering given the ever-shifting COVID landscape. Just a few short weeks ago it seemed like “all systems go” again for the meetings and events industry.

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Smart Moves in Minneapolis, Ann Arbor and More

Smart Meetings

Christy Loy Christy Loy, Meet Minneapolis Loy takes on the role of senior vice president of destination sales at Meet Minneapolis. Throughout his career, he has developed expertise across various sectors of the tourism industry, including convention and meeting sales and destination partner relations.

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Tahoe South Events Center to Usher in Next Stage for Meeting Profs

Smart Meetings

The summer of 2023 will herald a new era of meetings in South Lake Tahoe with the arrival of the over $100-million Tahoe South Events Center. The events center’s projected date of completion is July 6, 2023. The events center’s projected date of completion is July 6, 2023. main event floor and 10,000 sq.

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Meeting in the Mountain Region

Unique Venues

Our Top Picks offer stunning natural beauty, as well as state-of-the-art technology and assistance, delicious, varied culinary choices, amenities, and attentive professional event planning teams. Here are our Top Picks for Venues for Events in the Mountain Region of the United States. University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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35 Must Attend Events For Event Planners in 2020

Bizzabo

In this post, you’ll find a comprehensive list of the most important event industry conferences that every event professional should attend this year. Attending these conferences will allow you to learn more about the events industry and meet other event professionals. The Special Event 2020. IBTM America.

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Live? Virtual? Hybrid? There’s Only One Wrong Choice for Team Building

Smart Meetings

Corporations, universities, government agencies and associations abruptly began rethinking the structure of their conferences and team-building events for the remainder of 2021. Virtual or hybrid events enable organizers to greatly expand the number of participants. I think hybrid events are here to stay,” adds Tracy Fuller.

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Dems’ New Convention Dates Create Uncertainty for Others

MeetingsNet

A planner with a meeting in Milwaukee over the DNC’s rescheduled convention dates wonders what it means for her event. Kernick is able to make that offer to the host hotel because of another pandemic-related complication that’s affected her event planning. “We I’ve been doing this for more than 30 years” she noted.