Event Industry News

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Wyboston Lakes Resort and the Meetings Industry Association (mia) worked in unison to host a mock awards dinner as part of the government’s pilot events to test the COVID-Secure guidelines that all venues must follow.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2021

Meeting profs across the United States are being tasked with increasingly difficult decisions about requiring and enforcing mask wearing after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suddenly updated guidance for face coverings and physical distancing in Mid-May. Some already did away with public mask requirements months ago.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 9, 2023

BPA iCompli Sustainability, a division of global assurance provider BPA Worldwide, announced it served as technical writer to Singapore’s national standards and accreditation body, Enterprise Singapore, which created a set of Waste Management guidelines and best practices for Singapore’s MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) and (..)

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2017

ABTS is laying the groundwork to prepare associations, so they don’t encounter massive losses to meetings with high numbers of international medical-technology sponsorships. Direct sponsorship of health-care professionals is no longer going to happen, regardless of whether the meeting is pre-vetted or not.”.

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Event Industry News

MAY 26, 2020

The Meetings Industry Association has developed contract and cancellation guidance to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on future bookings and ensure all parties are protected.

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Skift

JUNE 15, 2021

Travel Association's calls for consistent hotel reopening guidelines. Travel Association campaign could sway straggling states to relax their restrictions on business meetings, but nothing moves fast in a pandemic. Hilton's CEO Chris Nassetta is backing the U.S. Matthew Parsons Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

Sheridan President and CEO of Meet Boston and co-chair, Meetings Mean Business Coalition What does the official end of Covid mean for the meetings industry? We’ve adopted new guidelines, heightened vigilance, and better public health education for all, but it’s really a matter of adapting to a new normal.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

A five-page memo from the Office of Management and Budget released in late November should mean a growth spurt for government meetings. This is a great step in the right direction, as it acknowledges how important it is for people to get together for meetings,” says Collen.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

HBAA is spearheading a new campaign with a supporting member action group to rectify misperceptions of government rules and build confidence to kick-start the meetings and events sector. Some 65% stated they will only run online meetings and events in the foreseeable future. In total, 71% had concerns over employee and delegate safety.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 14, 2023

April is Autism Awareness Month, the perfect time for meeting professionals to commit to learning more about how a few simple changes can improve the meeting experience for neurodiverse attendees. Make sure the purpose of the meeting is clear. Clarify outcomes that are hoped for from the meeting. Provide meal options.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. See also : Meeting Profs Demonstrate Community and Resiliency on #MeetingsChat. Based on the in-person site inspection, that clause should allow meetings professionals the option to cancel the contract without penalty. group business.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Galvanizing the salesforce is a top priority for vision technology manufacturer Zeiss, so it’s pivotal that the brand’s National Sales Meeting (NSM) not only serve as a celebration of those teams, but as a pep rally of sorts that fires them up for the new fiscal year. But the event wasn’t held in the bustling center of the city.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Meetings Industry Association has updated its contract and cancellation guidance to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on future bookings and ensure all parties are protected. To download the latest contract guideline visit [link].

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Expo Pass

MARCH 1, 2022

Virtual meetings make it incredibly easy to meet and connect with your co-workers, clients, business partners, and anyone we work with, day-to-day. . Or that meetings aren’t always productive? We’ll give you a hint – it’s our meeting habits. Plan meetings away from deadlines.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 12, 2020

While everyone else is talking about the pros and cons of different virtual meeting streaming platforms, Imagine, Create & Celebrate (MC&A) Destination Management Company hosted a social spacing soiree July 8 for 75 guests to honor the Hawaiian island of Maui ’s first responders. Someone had to be first.

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Management Events

MARCH 27, 2024

At Management Events, we recognize the importance of conveying professionalism and clarity in every virtual meeting. Adhering to a set of established guidelines can help ensure that your virtual meetings are both effective and respectful. Remember, a successful virtual meeting is one where all voices are valued and considered.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

There are many tips to keep in mind to safely return to in-person meetings and events. If businesses want to host in-person meetings and events, it’s more important than ever to put attendee and staff health and safety first. Expert Tips for a Transition Back to In-Person Meetings and Events. Ubiquitous sanitization stations.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Using a model by MIT, the study found that in a standard 100,000-square-foot facility with adequate ventilation a substantial amount of time will elapse before guidelines for health and safety for transmissibility are violated: In a room of 5,000 people, it would take 44 hours. “I It’s not a matter of, ‘should the event happen?’

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

There’s no doubt that green meetings and events are becoming mainstream. As proof of that pretty much all of the major meetings and events associations have adopted green meeting guidelines. I’m also very happy that the meetings and events industry is taking the lead in this area.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 10, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. In early May, 82 percent of meetings professionals and hospitality partners within Financial & Insurance Professionals (FICP) had one or more in-person event scheduled for the remainder of 2020. Lead by Example. Seeing is Believing.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Destinations International Large Market Roundtable outlined initiatives to establish Destination Booking Agreement Guidelines to create certainty for all parties. Caesars and Meet AC announced sustainability highlights from its newly released 2021 CSR Report —in a Leed-certified Augustus Tower villa suite—and the news (and views) are great.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 14, 2020

American Express’s 10th annual Global Meetings and Events Forecast offers insights into what the industry can expect in 2021. American Express released its 10th annual Global Meetings and Events Forecast, which surveyed more than 560 meetings and events professionals from around the world on everything from budgets to technology.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 20, 2020

“There are so many new, more time-consuming considerations that event planners will have to face in arranging meetings under the new guidelines, though this shouldn’t be a deterrent from organising live meetings and events. Even while abiding by social distancing, there is a warmth that an online conversation can’t match.”

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Arlo Training & Events Software

APRIL 23, 2024

It’s very simple to get started: all you need to do is paste your website URL into the ‘Web page address’ field, press the arrow, and WAVE will highlight areas of your site that don’t meet WCAG standards. The specific WCAG guidelines around this principle are: – Provide text alternatives for non-text content.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

HBAA has relaunched its ‘Meet Safe, Meet Smart’ (#MSMS) campaign with a supporting member action group to install consumer confidence to kick-start the meetings and events sector. There are many reasons why meeting in person is absolutely essential, from productivity to creativity, to positive mental health.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Meetings Industry Association can confirm that business events can still take place where they follow the pre-existing COVID-Secure guidelines, following clarification on last week’s ‘Rule of 6’ announcement from Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Changing Plans on a Dime.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Have you ever gone to a conference meeting where the room set up didn’t really match the format of the meeting? It can be uncomfortable and can really take your mind off of the meeting at hand. How to plan a conference meeting room set up basically depends on what’s going to happen during the conference meeting itself.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Five months following the announcement of the Vienna Meeting Fund which welcomed €4 million to support national and international organisers host meetings in the city, it has become clear that the Vienna Tourist Board’s scheme is a huge success to date, with overwhelming demand. RESULTS TO DATE. million promised in aid.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 9, 2020

Many meeting planners and are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. However, we can minimize the risk with proper emergency preparedness education, and a pre-plan of how to execute your next meeting. The education piece is more in-depth than checking the latest guidelines from the CDC.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 13, 2020

Takeaways: Meeting planners should look to their food service partners for ideas on donating leftover food from events canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak or other reasons. There are general guidelines that dictate what can and cannot be donated. Ready to Redirect. But small donations can be accommodated, too.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 23, 2019

Every organization has to figure out how to make meetings more effective. Instead of embracing this complexity, many leaders fall back on simple blanket rules that no one really follows—like the leader that declared all meetings in the company could last no more than 20 minutes. Document and share meeting results.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 11, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. In the third of FICP’s new virtual education series, focusing on the rest of the year, participants discussed what the “third-third” of 2020 will look like, including observations from hoteliers and feedback from meetings professionals’ stakeholders.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 22, 2021

Do capacity limits for indoor meetings include event staff? I just read this below in the Nevada state guidelines. Staff are required to ensure the successful implementation of these guidelines and the safety of participants. Sandy Yi-Davis , Head of Event Design, Strategic Meeting International. Here in D.C.,

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Event Industry News

MAY 17, 2021

HBAA has relaunched its ‘Meet Safe, Meet Smart’ (#MSMS) campaign with a supporting member action group to install consumer confidence to kick-start the meetings and events sector. There are many reasons why meeting in person is absolutely essential, from productivity to creativity, to positive mental health.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Hybrid meetings may be the bridge to bringing corporate gatherings back. Not everyone is going to be comfortable attending a meeting in person just yet, or anytime soon. Budget: Hybrid meetings require healthy AV line items if you are going to engage both audiences. Who removes attendees who do not abide by the guidelines?

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