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Breaking Down Convene’s Meetings Market Survey: What It Means for Venues

All Seated

New tools like AllSeated’s virtual walkthroughs and immersive 3D floorplan tours, help reduce the expenses associated with in-person site visits and enable organizers and planners to save or shift dollars to other areas of the event budget. Takeaway #2: Digital Venue Marketing Tools Play a Role. The answer?

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28th Annual Meetings Market Survey: Slower Growth Ahead

PCMA Convene

This time around, most respondents said they prefer to do things the old-fashioned way when it comes to site selection: Site visits top the list (45 percent said it is their first preference). As for the promise of mining data for insights about attendee behavior and other aspects of business events?

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2019 ASAE Preview: 8 Ways to Enjoy Columbus, Ohio

Smart Meetings

If you haven’t already, it’s time to get to the drawing board to book off-site activities and venues for next August 10 to 13. Smart Meetings recently went on a FAM trip hosted by Experience Columbus to scope out the area and make your site selection job that much easier. Get Fashionable. Get Touristy. Get Tasty.

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Customer Feedback: Rethinking the CAB Experience

PCMA Convene

It provided a way to get to know people in a different fashion.”. Among those goals is to rise to the top of planners’ site-selection lists. To help break the ice, the CAB participants engaged in what Greto called the “Rose and Thorn” exercise. Everyone shared the best and worst parts of their days,” he said. “It

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The Ultimate Guide on How to Start Your Event Planning Business

Capterra Event Management

Site Selection. Examples include product launches, political rallies, fashion shows. Topics: Event Life Cycle. Event Types. Event Proposals. Event Design Process. Layouts and Schematics. Floral Decor. Design Elements. Color Schemes. Event Elements Assessment. Catering and Cuisine. Tented Events. Event Tech. Entertainment.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

In the Convene survey, 24 percent of respondents said they take open-carry legislation into account when making site selections. Both [organizers and venues] have responsibilities of a different fashion,” he said. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

In the Convene survey, 24 percent of respondents said they take open-carry legislation into account when making site selections. Both [organizers and venues] have responsibilities of a different fashion,” he said. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms.