Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The UK’s leading platform for the world’s meetings and events community will be officially opened on Thursday 30 September by Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston at ExCeL, London. Education, education, education.

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Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

Each week, we email a short survey to a mix of over 23,000 planners, venues, and hotels. Venues such as Wyndham Hotels are hearing the call and putting wellness front and center as they promote their groups and meetings product. Hotels and other venues have to be realistic about the things they can offer well.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. The unprecedented rise in demand for meetings and events will continue this year, with CWT Meetings & Travel predicting a robust 5-10% growth in demand. Industry Performance Trends.

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Expo Pass

MARCH 31, 2021

In terms of event production, Montegrano added that her company, Encore, designed their safety plan to be specifically inline with various venues — and to match their meeting design, traffic flow, tech, and cleaning guidelines. First off, much of the tech needed is in venues already. As well as sell more tickets.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 4, 2020

Smart Meetings asked industry leaders from the front lines of hotels, event venues and creators, transportation, travel, networking, wellness and sustainability to share their commitments and challenges for keeping everyone safe and connected. We are installing more hand-sanitizing stations throughout our hotels.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

The show wrapped poolside with The Big Recap, in which EM editors outlined the week’s top takeaways and biggest themes, raising a glass to 2023 and the official countdown until next year’s event: April 24-26, 2024, at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? One of the benefits of online meetings is that they are more convenient than in-person meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2020

The panel members — a corporate planner, two association planners, a meeting-design expert, and a hotel executive — discussed the viability of hybrid events. When planning a hybrid and digital event, your content is the key to its success, panelists agreed during The Hague Convention Bureau’s first hybrid webinar.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. MeetingsFocus Meetings Focus are the destination experts when it comes to all things related to the meetings and hospitality industry. Sean McCracken writes for Hotel News Now. TahiraCreates. Venue_Finder.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Not only do they have a Whole Foods and yoga studios and an Ace Hotel, and all that crap that people like me need, but there’s real history and culture and innovation. But when I really think about it, I was in a hotel, I was in the airport, I was in the venue, and maybe got out to one or two restaurants.” More Meeting Trends.

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Gallus Events

MAY 9, 2017

Demonstration against new hotels in Barcelona. Barcelona is undergoing a tourist explosion and hotels of course, have to go somewhere. Here’s the Bank of Scotland organising a “half day workshop” Again, I wonder, has the event been put together by an events professional? My third example is from Barcelona.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

The appetite for experiential tours among those who come to Portland for meetings and conventions has grown noticeably in the last two years, Morgan said. So much so, that she predicts that the days when business travelers see only see the inside of their hotels, moving from conference room to hotel room and back again, will soon be history.

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2019

This time around, we welcomed Maarten Vanneste of the Meeting Design Institute to go over a topic we’re all too familiar with – internet connectivity. When Brandt and Maarten first met, it was at an event with a beautiful venue, an old hotel in London. It’s actually a funny story for these two.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 19, 2021

Bleach and disinfectants disappeared from store shelves, and every public space, from hotels to restaurants, fired up electrostatic sprayers. Meeting designer and author Adrian Segar also has sounded an alarm over the lack of attention to venue ventilation and what he called a “misdirected” focus on surface cleaning.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2016

Now I’m bringing my expertise to Chicago for a 1½ day October 6 – 7 workshop, a unique opportunity for you to: Learn how to make your conferences and conference sessions far more engaging and effective ; Gain powerful meeting design insights ; Significantly increase participation and satisfaction at your sessions and events; and.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 17, 2022

We will have an intentional mix of physical and virtual presences with in-person gatherings driven by purpose and designed for collaboration.”. When it matters enough to gather, the meeting design could be much different that in the BC (before-Covid) times. Expectations have evolved for team building as well.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design. Ready to hear all about the ground-breaking magic of multi-hub meetings? In 2006, Marteen started the Meeting Design Institute. Meeting Architecture: A Manifesto by Maarten Vanneste.

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Gallus Events

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Out goes the hotel or conference centre and in comes a unique / creative space. In this post I’d like to demonstrate how easy it is to freshen up your annual conference using examples from the “Future Assistant” conference for Practically Perfect PA. Choose a unique venue.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

With hotel commission rates being cut, and travel budgets ever shrinking, planners are finding new ways to hold large events. There are a number of meeting design elements that need to be accounted for, but the cost savings and expanded participation seem well worth it. Rising: Multi-point virtual events.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Smart Meetings has rounded up the best event planning resources of this year, in order to help planners face challenges in 2017. 7 Books Every Meeting Planner Should Read. Planners Confess Their Biggest Mistakes (and Lessons Learned). 21 Dining Etiquette Tips for Event Professionals.

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EventMB

JUNE 26, 2023

The brand has been transformed with meetings in mind. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Some thought the Sheraton brand was dead after the Marriott merger. They were wrong.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In addition, general managers, catering managers and group/event sales managers at restaurants, hotels, banquet halls and other event centers also want to optimize their space usage in order to maximize how many events they can book over a given time period. and band/DJ setups. Hollow Square Setup.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 25, 2018

The Homeless Hackathon in Glasgow took place on the weekend (as Hackathons tend to do) of the 13/15 April at the brilliant Citizen M hotel. You will find me going on about the importance of the venue in a lot of posts (specially the ones that cover meeting design ) as the venue helps the organiser create the right atmosphere and environment.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, and robots are donning aprons in other convention center and hotel kitchens. I learned about this new and improved form of the Q&A during a chat I had earlier in the year with Maarten Vanneste , president of the Belgium-based Meeting Design Institute.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The resort is making investments in digital technology across its meeting spaces and frequently pilots new meeting designs, concepts, and themes with group clients. ” No matter what an event is seeking to achieve, meeting planners should brainstorm with their hosts during the design phase.

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Capterra Event Management

JULY 19, 2016

The blog from popular enterprise event software Cvent is divided into categories so you can peruse based on your interests: social media, site selection and budgeting, association tips, meeting and event intelligence, planning how-tos, and strategic meetings management. It also includes rankings of top meeting hotels and destinations.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

“And I love that they want to tap us to tell the story of the destination as a whole while it’s built from the ground up, rather than simply rattling o the capacity of the destination’s convention spaces for meeting designers. There’s so much more in the decision-making process for meeting planners than that.”.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

I also would like to create and own my own brand of hotels. Kincaid Hotels has a nice ring to it, if I say so myself! Associate Manager, Meetings and Fellowships American Orthopaedic Association Rosemont, Illinois, USA. I aspire to one day own my own hotel. KATHY SINNEN, CMP. What do you like most about your job?

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

Transportation plans help planners identify how they’ll manage the movement of participants from the airport to hotel to meetings and offsite venues and if additional requirements, such as visas, might be required for attendee travel. The buildings, rooms and outdoor venues you select to house your meeting or event are known as sites.

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Event Industry News

MAY 3, 2019

“Slowly but surely, the meeting industry is learning that the old lecture-saturated conference model is increasingly inferior to meeting designs that incorporate the active learning, connections, engagement, and outcomes that attendees actually want and need.”

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2019

“Slowly but surely, the meeting industry is learning that the old lecture-saturated conference model is increasingly inferior to meeting designs that incorporate the active learning, connections, engagement, and outcomes that attendees actually want and need.”

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