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A Host Facility’s Energy Sources: What Planners Should Know

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To achieve true sustainability, planners should understand where the energy comes from that's powering their meetings. An event venue’s power source has a notable effect on a meeting’s total carbon emissions. For instance, the Hotel Marcel in New Haven, Conn., has enough solar panels to power the entire building.

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Holiday Events and Cyber Sales for Company Celebrations, Gifting

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Just for you, tourism bureaus and hospitality professionals are hanging holly, preparing their spaces to host events and—beginning Black Friday and Cyber Monday—sales for holiday business travelers. Here are some of the best experiences and Cyber sales on hotels and the most festive corporate-friendly events and giftable trips of the season.

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Father-Son Bonding Creates Culinary Magic in Hawaii

Smart Meetings

Take the likes of Simba and Mustafa, Dell and Steph Curry, or Henry and Indiana Jones—much of the time their greatness blossoms in the face of conflict and their unions provide something we can all benefit and learn from. We get picked up by a lot of meeting conventions that come to the hotel,” Kanekoa said.

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Progress Report: Global Convention Center Outlook

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He acknowledged that the city’s existing National Convention Centre is not large enough to sufficiently host many major events. An additional $700 million would go towards constructing a new 40-story hotel tower with 850 rooms at JW Marriott. The adjoining 350-guestroom hotel would offer additional function space and a rooftop pool.

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Keep Meetings Caffeinated: 3 Coffee-Forward Destinations to Wake Up Your Event

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It will serve attendees in the north entrance of the convention center during all public and private events. Nearly adjacent to Durham Convention Center is The Durham , a boutique hotel serving the tech companies and academics that come to meet in the university-framed Research Triangle Region. View this post on Instagram.

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Guns, Mass Shootings & The Events Industry: Our Missing Voice

Event Leadership Institute

For a number of years, I’ve been giving a presentation at industry conferences on Disruptions Facing the Events Industry. – guns and shootings at events is the one I’ve been most worried about. Given the devastating effect of mass shootings at events, it’s shocking how little, if any, discussion there has been on the topic.

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New Orleans Celebrated GMID by Illustrating Why Meetings Matter 

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Read More: New Orleans: Cultural Collaboration in The Big Easy Sustainability and walkability is an important deciding factor when Parr is sourcing, but she is not necessarily looking for the most sustainable city, she said. We have to do a better job at the high school level of letting people know event design jobs exist,” he said.