Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And the meetings and events industry is taking the lead when it comes to creating sustainable events. For example, Kansas City’s “Green Event Planning Guide” provides party planners in Missouri with contact information, check lists, best practices, etc. Looking for a Green Party Planner? – Do your research!

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 19, 2017

This should be music to planners ’ ears, as there are many ways to embrace the seasonal spirit at a meeting or event. Booking a meeting at one of these ultra-dreamy venues is a great way to start planning. Fire pits, a wooden boardwalk and 500-person capacity make the outdoor venue a summertime delight. Louis, Missouri).

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Unique Venues

JUNE 10, 2020

Having your event in the Midwest region of the United States is a wonderful idea. Beautiful Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri is a go-to venue for any kind of social or professional business event. We just love Galena, Illinois as an event location – limited only by your event planning imagination.

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Bizzabo

JANUARY 15, 2019

Discover the 20 best event venues in Kansas City. So it's no surprise that the "City of Fountains" has a whole host of amazing event venues. So it's no surprise that the "City of Fountains" has a whole host of amazing event venues. The in-house event strategy and pro production team will do it for you.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 13, 2019

Planning your event in St. From a blues museum to waterfront views to 19th-century monuments, you’ll find it here in our top 30 event spots in St. The variety of budget-friendly event spaces to elegant, old-world venues make this a desirable location for industry conferences, conventions, and meetups. Location: Downtown.

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Connect Your Meetings

MARCH 14, 2019

Cori Day, vice president of sales and services for Visit KC, understands the complex role that event service professionals play. Whether it’s an event, a venue or a destination, she is selling an experience—and everything revolves around customer service because you haven’t done a good job until they say you have.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 17, 2020

The result was a five-night virtual event that was open to the public — NCBMP’s Be Inspired Speaker Series: A Night at the Museum, which took place May 18–22. The event featured speakers representing each of the five venues presenting live on location, with NCBMP president Marlinda A. Henry and vice president Nicholas I.

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Nunify

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

According to Allied Market Research , the event industry was worth $1,135.4 A career in the “Events industry” is a viable option, according to these reports. A skilled event planner must be an excellent multi-tasker to manage various aspects of an event seamlessly. Online Event Management Courses.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 20, 2018

Tragic boating incidents in which tourists and crew members were killed and injured on Hawaii Island and in Branson, Missouri made headlines this week. WOW – video captures duck tour boat sinking in Missouri w/31 people on board. 17 people died on a duck boat in SW Missouri yesterday. pic.twitter.com/w8T17pE37B.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 16, 2019

The Freeman Company sold its Encore Event Technologies unit to national event production company PSAV while its Freeman brand experience division is focusing on a problem many planners and companies have struggled with—event data analysis. Data Design , a team that grants event planners insight on how to drive growth.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Along with the restaurants and stores that now call the station home, a music-cued lightshow plays across the ceiling of the grand hall each evening, while seasonal events such as the Polar Express Train Ride cycle through. It reopened as a venue and hotel in 1985, and has remained a mainstay of downtown St. There is a magic to St.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 22, 2017

A track with a similar design already exists in Branson, Missouri, at The Track Family Fun Parks. The checkered flag is an opportunity to introduce some friendly competition into your next event. The multi-level racetrack looks like it is straight out of a video game with a spiraling and wavy roadway. Locations, Locations, Locations.

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Unique Venues

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In this region, the University of Illinois Conferences & Special Events is home to a 1,400-acre campus with high-tech classroom spaces, lounges, and overnight accommodations for up to 1,800 people and a dedicated event staff to help plan it all. Missouri State University. Champaign, IL. Purdue University.

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Hornblower

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Built in Louisiana, the San Francisco Belle was once used as a floating casino on the Missouri River. Venue: Hornblower Cruises & Events San Francisco ( www.hornblower.com/port/category/sf+weddings ). Linens & Dance Floor: Good Events ( www.goodevents.com ). Florals: Flowers by Nina ( www.floraldesignstudio.com ).

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

From New York to Utah, each is only a short trip from some of the country’s best meeting venues. of event space. Lancaster also delivers where it counts in event spaces. of event space and 591 rooms. of event space and 591 rooms. of event space. of event space. of event space. of meeting space.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When a city is preparing to host a sporting event, they invest in improving their infrastructure, building and renovating hotels and expanding their public transportation routes. The event will also utilize the Indiana Convention Center for a fan fest. The Super Bowl is one of the biggest money-makers of them all. billion benefit.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 18, 2017

Venues along its path are hosting special events and hotels are offering promotional rates for this astronomical phenomenon. Custom eclipse glasses with a brand, company or event name printed on them would be a great promotional item to give out at meetings leading up to August 21. Garden color. Sundays are for exploring.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

The virtual site tour for Excel London features a series of videos for different venues within the complex. After a year spent moving in-person events to digital platforms and monitoring the shifts in the feasibility of meeting in person, the timelines for holding safe in-person meetings in the future are slowly coming into focus.

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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. That’s amazingly exciting to be able to share that with anybody that’s doubting whether Rapid City is capable of hosting an event like this.”. Rapid City, South Dakota.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Smart Meetings talked to the leader of the world’s largest resource for official destination organizations, convention and visitors bureaus, and asked how he and his members help event professionals deliver better meetings. Louis, Missouri on July 23, 2019. Partnerships Expanded. Destinations International annual conference in St.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2018

While every hotel or venue has something that makes it unique, some simply go above and beyond. In the middle of $10 million of multiphase renovations, the Central Los Angeles venue most recently revealed five new meeting rooms. of indoor and outdoor event space, including 11,341-square-foot Grand Imperial Ballroom.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson, however, the region’s flourishing startup culture was a story that needed telling, which is why, in 2008, they founded an online publication called Silicon Prairie News (SPN) — taking its name from a tech-friendly area that includes Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri.

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Eventsforce

APRIL 27, 2020

As an event planner, planning and executing a memorable event is far from your only responsibility. Keeping everyone safe at an event is actually one of the most important responsibilities the event planner has on their hands. Related reading: 10 essential tips to reduce event risk. Client-first communication.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Working at the closest hotel and meeting venue to the Gateway Arch, I’ve noticed that groups are taking more time to enjoy the outdoors since the completion of the park’s renovation. Louis have all the conveniences of being in an urban setting while also having the unique opportunity to visit a national park at the Gateway Arch.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2023

To make the event special, memorable and interactive, Glenn Stress, vice president of global B2B events and programs for Marriott International, brought one of the activations from his company’s research with PCMA and CEMA on the Guiding Principles in Experience Design.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 4, 2018

of indoor and outdoor event space, including a grand ballroom with 19,758 sq. All 910 guest rooms are shiny and new again, as is the lobby, after a multimillion-dollar refresh at this landmark downtown hotel. Asymmetrical, wavy patterns on new carpeting are inspired by the nearby Mississippi. The property offers 83,000 sq.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But event planners are looking for more than that—they’re on the hunt for Hollywood-inspired places to host their next event (the curse of a constantly-working mind!). We are honored to present to you a list of venues in destinations featured in this years’ Oscar-nominated movies. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. This is our fourth class,” said PCMA President and CEO Deborah Sexton, “and with each one, we are struck by the passion and insights these individuals bring to the business-events community. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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