Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. Fortunately, destinations and hotels alike have seen a dramatic comeback from pandemic lows as they benefitted from the pent-up demand for in-person experiences.”

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

About: Visualizer provides a customisable virtual sales tour for meeting hotels and event venues. Visualizer makes hotel sales materials engaging and interactive, while incorporating the WOW effect of a virtual tour, and the informative effect of brochures and website links. Event Tech. An example link: [link]. Brand Events.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

The past few years saw over 70% of hotel staff in the United States and United Kingdom furloughed or laid off while hotels were closed. If hotels are to meet this demand, they need to incentivize people to work for them. Hotels have started offering remote and hybrid jobs to draw more people to a position. will be remote.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 26, 2017

Additionally, more people travel with multiple devices requiring increased bandwidth, and today’s traveler does not want buffering.” . Similarly, the 242-room Godfrey Hotel in Boston introduced InnSpire , a sophisticated guest media-streaming technology, upon opening last year. The Godfrey offers this feature with OpenKey.

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Event Industry News

JULY 27, 2021

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI), a leader in luxury hotel sales for meeting incentives, conventions, and exhibition (MICE), welcomes the addition of Silvia Zamora to the ALHI executive team. Zamora is looking forward to elevating ALHI’s global profile, expanding the company’s market strategy in the U.S.,

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Spinning slowly in a grandiose ballroom or stepping inside a hotel suite, the ocean view through the doors to the balcony—the next generation of virtual reality (VR) can deliver so much more than pretty worlds through clunky goggles. Ford at 2020 Essence Festival; Photo credit: Bluewater Tech. But what does it take to access VR tech?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Wenks holds over 20 years of experience in executive hospitality leadership, most recently serving as vice president of the sales organization for Omni Hotels. She brings over 15 years of experience in tourism and experiential marketing. Yoshida will serve as director of marketing.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 15, 2022

14-16 at the Faena Hotel Miami Beach, a luxury property and cultural destination, the podcast’s own Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway hosted on-stage discussions with the likes of Brian Chesky, ceo and co-founder of Airbnb; Sandeep Mathrani, ceo of WeWork; and Meredith Kopit Levien, ceo of the New York Times.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Yes, the event business has officially entered the realm of high-tech. Smart Meetings covered all the must-have tech advances this year to help you stay at the top of your game. Here are the 11 event tech trends you don’t want to miss. Travel Tech: Biorecognition could eliminate lengthy screening lines at airports.

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Eventsforce

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Want the lowdown on all things event tech? In this month’s round up of top tech stories, we look at how important data protection and data security has become for event planners two years since the introduction of GDPR. Event MB: 5 Tech Trends from CES That Will Impact Events. In your inbox, every week. .

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Ingrid Chen Ingrid Chen Rosewood Hotel Group appoints Ingrid Chen as vice president of brand strategy and marketing. She will draw on over 20 years of experience in global brand development and marketing to oversee the group’s marketing, social media and partnerships across their four brands. George, Utah.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Maritim Hotels has strengthened its UK sales force with the appointment of Michael Rogerson as account manager. . Michael joins the Maritim UK team with over 35 years of travel and hospitality experience, having worked in every aspect of the industry, from tour operator to global hotel sales. Event Tech. Areas of interest.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2019

However, leaving audio visual (AV) equipment services to the end could be a costly mistake, especially when negotiating these services with a hotel. Many hotel contracts mandate use of an in-house AV provider and contain clauses prohibiting use of other vendors or charge for the privilege of using the planner’s preferred vendor.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

London’s MICE offering has received a further boost with the news that 7,995 hotel rooms across 65 new hotels will open next year, adding to 158,956 existing hotel rooms and marking the largest number of openings London has ever seen in one year1. New hotel room openings have soared from 3,222 in 2010 to 7,995 planned for 2020.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 1, 2024

SXSW 2024 kicks off next week, bringing a convergence of tech, film, music, education and culture to Austin, TX. Ahead of this year’s event, we sifted through the archives to round up 12 experiential tactics that exemplify marketing at this most influential industry tentpole.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 22, 2024

This is true of hotels, convention centers, event organizers, technology companies, etc. “ This, of course, is exactly what Moutafis admits happens if clients use Zenus technology with any other tech that identifies individuals. Badge scanning tech is common at meetings.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

2018 event marketing trends point to video becoming this year’s content marketing juggernaut. With everyone rushing to upload their own talking heads and animated content, is there still a place where you can share your video content and get it seen in this saturated market? It’s free and available anytime, anywhere!

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Event Industry News

JULY 16, 2019

Past projects have included super-fast turnaround promo films, 3D visuals of spaces, stands and floorplans, augmented and virtual reality for brand activations, projection mapping of the Rosewood Hotel in London, 360 tours of venues and anything else creative you can think of! Event Tech. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Conferences.

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Social Tables

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Either way, many hotels offer positions for event planners that utilize the many skills you probably already have. Read on to get a sense of what a hotel event planner does in their day-to-day and whether the position is the right fit for you. A hotel event planner manages the space. The post Want to Be a Hotel Event Planner?

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Event Industry News

MAY 13, 2021

Sam Chance is currently the Marketing Director at Montgomery Group, overseeing the marketing, PR and content teams for 8 large-scale exhibitions serving the food, drink & hospitality sectors. I also sit on one of the LEP Groups for AEO and have have previously spoken at Event Tech Live and the Exhibition Marketing Masterclass.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2022

Skinner joined Makeready hospitality company’s Emeline hotel in Charleston, South Carolina as general manager. She brings 14 years of hotel management experience to the position, most recently working at Proper Hotels and Residences’ The Hotel June as general manager in Los Angeles. Martin Wormull and John Stack.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 11, 2023

Event tech integration. Event tech can give you a leg up designing your website, fostering community networking with an event app , organizing one-time and year-round events, and more! Featuring sponsor logos or banners can be an effective association marketing strategy that helps you build partnerships and bring in extra revenue.

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EventBank Insights

APRIL 17, 2019

[link] On April 16th, EventBank and Pico Group co-organized a panel discussion on the topic of Data-Driven Marketing & Events so that we can dive deeper into the most hotly contested topic to date, data and how companies use it.The night kicked off with networking over wine and hors d'oeuvres and quickly settled in for the discussion.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Hotel developers have recognised the need to create experiences within their hotel, resort or venue, meaning they are now redesigning the existing spaces within their restaurant, beachside, poolside or ballroom areas – specifically to cater towards events. Event Tech. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Radario –an AI event marketing and analytics platform. Event Tech Tribe –group marketing of cloud-based event tech products, including an appointment management system and a venue sourcing site. IVvy –a direct meeting space booking system for hotels. Kubify –an interactive system to create and implement e-posters.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 11, 2022

The state of the market and a customer service journey. After nearly two years of almost exclusively dealing with online events platforms, it was a welcome breath of fresh air to be thinking about anything else event tech. The post Smart Tech: Room Diagramming Software Demystified appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Eventmobi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Strong Marketing to Create Buzz. Temporary pop-up event venues are a perfect fit for guerrilla marketing events as they generate a lot of buzz by seemingly appearing out of nowhere. At one time, hotels were concerned that pop-up events might compete with their offerings. Strong Marketing. Smooth Logistics.

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Endless Events

MAY 14, 2018

That includes knowing what event tech to use, how to properly check-in attendees and marketing your event so it stands out. Translating Emerging Tech To Live Events. The episode touches on everything from live events and emerging tech, young people in tech, and InfoComm 2018’s Center Stage! Click To Tweet.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The good news for event marketers, however: Despite the year’s travel speed bumps and forecasts, many events and trade shows (CES 2024, included) are reporting they are back to pre-pandemic attendance levels. percent increase in hotel rates. Corporate travel policies may start including air emissions tracking.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The city’s challenges related to homelessness, crime and drugs are part of a combination of factors that are impacting the city’s event business, with a number of big tech conferences announcing historic moves out of the city and to Las Vegas. And the hotels are beautiful in San Francisco. We can’t easily change the size of our hotels.

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’ll cover everything from budgeting and marketing to finding sponsors and speakers to reporting and analytics. An event tech stack Whether you’re hosting an in-person, virtual, or hybrid conference, tech’s going to play a crucial role. Consider organic content marketing. What Does It Take to Plan a Conference?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2024

The Tech Track In keeping with the times, an entire track has been built around AI for those who want to understand what it is and how to use the tool for event planning. Breakfast Recommendations Falls City Market : Con Huevos: Indulge in Mexican flavors or grab a sandwich. Reservations are encouraged. Order the seafood paella.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Read More: Cvent’s Event Tech Roadmap According to filings, at the end of last year, Cvent had approximately 22,000 customers globally in the corporate, non-profit, higher education and hospitality sectors as of December 31, 2022. In 2021, the market for in-person, virtual and hybrid events was estimated at $30 billion.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 24, 2020

This year-end roundup is dedicated to the topic of tech, which became more important than ever when physical distancing become necessary…and communication and social interaction became lifelines. Mobile check-in will be child’s play in the years to come, as the pandemic propelled the hotel industry’s interest in touchless technology tenfold.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 17, 2017

Hotel Via rendering courtesy of Hotel Via. New hotel construction is closely linked to a destination’s demand. These hotels will fit perfectly into the appeal of the various neighborhoods. If you look at these hotels, they are almost part of San Francisco’s DNA. San Francisco Proper Hotel. We are pioneers.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2017

Marriott International created what it is calling the hotel industry’s first ever video game for the opening of W Bellevue in Washington. W Hotels Worldwide worked with LA-based marketing agency Pen&Public to launch the virtual touring game Belle the Bear June 15. W Hotels took a throwback-style approach to the game.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How can you word the hotel contract to protect your company? Turn the RFP into a Marketing Tool Making your RFP as detailed as possible is also a good idea. You want to give as many details as possible about who, what, when, why, everything about your program to the hotel,” Poole said. It’s got to be a win for the hotel.

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