Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But what does this mean for meeting planners and business travelers? Is it time to “lift and shift” events again? Still, and perhaps partially a result, many travelers have found themselves stranded since the weekend, hundreds of flights are suspended, and some events are already being canceled. Netherlands. New Zealand.

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Canadian Special Events

JANUARY 12, 2023

“Meet Alina Tacmelova, a visionary in the world of creative design and the inspiration behind some of Wedlux’s most-loved floral installations. Your husband is your partner in business and life; how did you meet? We started chatting, and he asked to meet me when I arrived. It’s been 11 years now! Definitely, yes!

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PCMA Convene

JULY 15, 2020

Andrea Faflíková, director of PR, communications and events/REEMEA for the LEGO Group, stands in a custom-made 3D virtual studio during a LEGO digital event. To follow corporate policy, the event needed to be delivered via Microsoft Teams — an internally approved tool for the LEGO Group.

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Event Industry News

JULY 2, 2020

“Post C OVID-19 – The Future of B2B Events”: Space Global’s international survey of c.500 500 senior B2B marketeers shows there is light at the end of the tunnel for the B2B events industry. Marketeers expect to be able to re-engage with events from October, after spend on B2B events recorded an 80% fall in Q2 2020.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Newfound event flexibility and a collective pivot to virtual exhibitions has led to major growth at Cambridge-based event tech company ExpoPlatform. ExpoPlatform sensed this changing event engagement patterns and augmented their event platform with functionalities for virtual events, prompting fresh strategic partnerships.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 9, 2017

Conde Nast Traveler has released a list of the 50 Most Beautiful Cities in the World, many of which would make great meeting destinations. Venice offers a unique experience to meeting-goers because you get from place to place via foot or the canal system by way of water taxis and gondolas. Venice, Italy. New York, New York.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

I asked Meyer what this might mean for North American–based meeting professionals whose conferences are now attracting participants from around the globe. Those countries include Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Japan, China, and India — and to a lesser extent, France, Italy, and Spain. Relationships are built slowly.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 1, 2022

Especially for business events in Eastern Europe, the war clouds a promising rebound from the pandemic. The last two years have been a massive challenge for the meetings industry, and few segments have suffered as much as destination management companies. Russian Roulette: Global Events Industry Reacts to Ukraine Invasion.

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EventMB

MAY 17, 2022

The Arabian Travel Market (ATM) that concluded in Dubai on May 12 is testament to the fact that live events are irreplaceable and no virtual extravaganza can replace the human element of in-person events. EventMB : Hosting a live event during a pandemic is not completely new for you.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 27, 2020

The Strategy also welcomes cooperation with EU neighbouring countries (Russia and Norway). The goal of the strategy was to strengthen cooperation between the countries in order to meet common challenges, and to benefit from the common opportunities facing the region. The Baltic-Nordic Event Forum is a two-day event.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 21, 2019

Now anyone—from front desk, events and banquets employees to operations, general managers and kitchen staff—can become culturally competent. Currently, the program covers 10 areas: Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Middle East, Russia, South Korea and United States, as well as the Jewish, LGBTQ and Native-American cultures.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 11, 2018

With the appointment of its international relations officer, the German Event Planners Association – VDVO (Verband der Veranstaltungsorganisatoren e.V.) – is aiming for growth beyond national borders. Irina Graf founded her blog in 2011, as well as completing her events internship in Germany, while studying tourism in Switzerland.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 30, 2019

Face-to-face meetings are helping reverse the worldwide problem of loneliness. As humans, as mammals, we need to be with others — we are born with an innate, deep need for connection,” said Janet Sperstad, CMP, program director of the meeting and event management degree at Madison College. Illustration by Ping Zhu).

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Leading Australian events software platform, EventsAIR, was chosen to undertake the mammoth task of keeping track of more than 30,000 delegates, officials and observers at this month’s APEC meeting held in Papua New Guinea. That involved linking 28 access control points located in seven separate venues.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

I joined a group of nine hosted buyers — eight from the United States and one from Russia — all on their way to IMEX 2017 the following week, on a two-day fam hosted by the German Convention Bureau. It’s hard to imagine a more romantic setting for a meeting than the red-sandstone Stadthalle convention center, our next stop.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

“We will be offering our emergency preparedness certificate program at IMEX Frankfurt and other locations in the United States,” he said of the training program that leverages the local knowledge of program logistics professionals to help event managers design and execute effective security plans. Excellence Recognized.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

And there will be growing use of cashless payments and livestreaming at meetings and events. What is one trend that meeting planners should be keeping an eye on in 2017 and beyond? What is one trend that business-event organizers should be keeping an eye on in 2017 and beyond? Airfares will be up 2.5 percent worldwide.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Those of us in the business events industry have long believed in the power of our sector, but it has not been quantified, until now. trillion — the estimated global spend of the business events industry, according recent Events Industry Council (EIC) research — is a lot to wrap your head around.

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Bizzabo

JULY 3, 2019

Each month we interview an events professional who is breaking the mold. This month we spoke with Elina Jutelyté —the senior events manager at Showpad—about accelerating event growth, scaling a global events strategy, and identifying and building events that bring the best ROI. Measuring event ROI.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

When planning international events overseas , event professionals must take into account a host of important legal and cultural considerations. Grimes of Grimes Law Offices, LLC in Philadelphia, spoke at MPI’s WEC 2016 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, about planning international events. Attorney John S. Business Negotiations.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Customers travelling to the UAE during Expo 2020 can simply visit their nearest VFS Global Visa Application Centre in the GCC, India, China, Russia, UK and Germany to plan their trip, leverage VFS Global’s services and reserve their Expo 2020 tickets.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

IMEX America was hotter than ever this year, drawing a record 12,227 meetings and events professionals to Las Vegas Oct. The hosted buyers program has become a very popular way to get destinations, hotels and resorts, and products in front of meeting planners. 18-20 for a 14 percent increase over 2015. percent increase.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 2, 2017

The State Department specifically states that “widely-reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom demonstrate that the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS or Da’esh), al-Qa’ida, and their affiliates have the ability to plan and execute terrorist attacks in Europe.”. The travel alert warns U.S. The post U.S.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In 2018, Yutong developed high-end T Series tourist buses ingeniously to meet the demand for high-standard products in the European market and created a new landscape in the UK market. Yutong buses are sold in many countries and regions, for example, France, UK, Spain, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Israel, Russia. Brand Events.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Other notable deals in mature markets include ITE’s acquisition of the Ascential Exhibitions Business and Clarion’s acquisition of the events portfolio of the US-based PennWell. Following a period of severe decline, Russia has started to recover, driven by volume development.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2019

In the UAE, Dubai is continuing to benefit from its long-established brand in the business events world and now is home to over 96,000 bedrooms across 501 hotels, as well as over 7million sq ft of convention space. The country’s convention bureau is now promoting Cyprus as a world-class conference and events location. year-over-year.

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The MICE

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The hotel is part of the Penta Group , which has 27 hotels in Europe and Asia (Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Russia), with further expansions planned in the next 2–3 years. The reception, bar, restaurant and meeting spaces all surround the focal point—the lounge area.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2017

If you’re even the least bit freaked out by the KRACK Wi-Fi security flaw, and wondering how it might possibly impact your life and meetings, here’s a bit of reassurance and advice. Or, more accurately, not every teenaged nerd in his bedroom can now steal your stuff or hack your event. First, What Is It? Take a deep breath.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 17, 2016

. – To create enough space for the event, organizers transformed a parking lot into a beautiful, seated dining area that included an atrium, a series of food stations and a temporary kitchen. – To broaden the event’s reach around the globe, Arinex marketed LNG 18 at major LNG events in the United States, Russia and France.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 30, 2019

Petersburg, Florida, CreativeMornings chapter events typically attract about 200 people. Fast forward to 2019: CreativeMornings now has more than 200 chapters that meet weekly in more than 65 countries — and ultimately working to reverse the trend of loneliness around the world. “I Stephen Zane). And that completely made sense.”.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 19, 2021

Sean Wargo, AVIXA’S senior director of market intelligence, says of events: “We need to move away from this idea that there’s this calendared moment … it doesn’t make any sense. How has life changed at AVIXA with events moving online over the last year? It should just exist as content that has long tail.”

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The MICE

JUNE 3, 2022

Incentives are the most exciting part of the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibition) business. Memories and experiences that are created at a destination outlive any other type or event and experience; for me at least. There is no need to fly out for a two hour meeting anymore due to sustainability considerations.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As platforms like Mastodon, Counter Social, and Hive Social grow rapidly, they will also have to evolve and scale how they perform content moderation if they are going to meet their founders’ goals as a safe-enough space for conversation. What you see on the platform. I joined Discord in July 2021, and currently use it in two ways.

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Connect Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

During his 40 years in the industry, Cerbelli has produced events created for and/or attended by Hollywood’s biggest celebrities (Billy Joel and Robert De Niro are only examples). But in the meetings and events world, Cerbelli is one of the biggest names. Do you prefer being onstage for The Hot List or planning events?

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

Think about it: In a period of less than six months, not only did the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union, but the United States and Russia flirted with a new Cold War, the migrant crisis ignited discontent throughout Europe, and Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign included calls for building walls and enacting travel bans.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2017

If you’ve spent any time in the business-events industry, you know destinations like Las Vegas, Paris, Chicago, or Barcelona like the back of your hand. Convene recently spoke with representatives from three such cities that recently have hosted renowned international meetings. Logar played a major role in bringing the event to town.

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