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Caesars Launches Wellness Menu Ahead of IMEX

Smart Meetings

Time at Qua Spa at Caesars Palace, light bites at Guy Savoy Restaurant and dinner at Eiffel Tower Restaurant in Paris Las Vegas highlighted the brand’s focus on tasty, well-prepared food and relaxing, healthy experiences. The new Caesars product offers turnkey solutions specifically for meeting professionals.

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8 Event Budget Adjustments Needed to Host Safe Events in 2021

Event Farm

Ryan and Marcella project a 25% increase in food and beverage costs due to not having buffets or family-style service. Some cities/counties may have “slightly irritating” regulations, for example, in New York City right now, you must be seated at a table to eat or drink.

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3 Trends and Events: Rewilding Spaces, Foraged Cocktails, and Metawork

PCMA Convene

The flexible Pavilion indoor event space at the Javits Center in New York City opens onto an outdoor terrace. Attendees can see where their food comes from “when they walk in the door” of Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. Courtesy of Javits Center). Foraged Cocktails. What’s come out of it is — ‘I want local.

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8 Best Practices for Planning Corporate Events

Eventinterface

It is important to ensure that the venue is adequately equipped to handle basic electrical, and food and beverage requirements, especially vital for non-traditional venues. For any food and beverage brands, it is important to ensure that the venue selected supports the food and beverage brands the client represents.

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What We Learned About Hybrid Events From Two Weekends of Essence Fest

Event Marketer

Although the festival had streamed content before, Carmen Jones, experiential director at Essence Communications, says this was its first true hybrid format (Mark Stephen Experiential Agency, New York City, handled). They were arranged along a New Orleans-style streetscape. Prep you speakers.

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Taking Meetings and Exhibitions on the Road

PCMA Convene

In all, more than 800 people were involved in creating the tour, including doctors, speakers, and individuals at participating institutions, she added. Venues have yet to be announced, but the event’s locations range in size from Lebanon, Tennessee — population 36,000 — to Brooklyn, New York.

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10 innovative ways to squeeze more from your event budget

Planning Pod

Meghan McNeil from the One Line Agency in New York City concurs. We recently worked with a luxury association convention group of 750 at a legacy New York City hotel where we piggybacked the food and beverage component for a major gala with the group of a similar size in an adjacent ballroom.”