SmartMeetings

APRIL 30, 2019

For meeting professionals, these nerve-pulsating newscasts could be creating extra stressors, as those items might also influence our conferences, such as weather that grounds planes or sicknesses that prevent travel. Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer.

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Hotels Site Selections Hospitality Venues 97

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The beginning of a new year brings the promise of new events, incentives and meetings. Though lockdowns similar to what we experienced at the beginning of the pandemic aren’t likely, meeting destinations may be impacted by ever-changing local restrictions or ordinances around vaccinations, testing requirements, etc. Build in More Time.

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Contracts Site Selections 2022 Risk Management 116

MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A new toolkit for employees at hotels, convention centers, and special-event venues can provide planners with deeper perspective on what to ask during site selection. The guide also includes a resource list that can be customized to include local businesses who cater to event groups.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Denise Mope Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas’s Uptown neighborhood added Mope as director of sales and marketing. He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. He climbed the ladder from director of operations at the hotel.

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Hotels Site Selections Airlines 2015 72

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can also be effectively used by meeting and event teams of all sized to deliver better end products. A 7-Step Process A true process will go beyond RFP sourcing and site selection, contracting and negotiations. Step 6: Meeting Logistics Plan and On-site Execution Blueprint Flawless execution is every meeting planner’s dream.

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Conference Site Selections Negotiating Contracts 98

Eventsforce

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As a meeting and event planner, do you ever feel a little stuck? Q: How should meeting and event professionals utilise CVBs and DMOs to enhance their planning capabilities? Q: How can meeting and event planners and CVBs and DMOs work together more effectively? A: Making connections to the destination should be a top priority.

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Meetings Transportation Site Selections Attendance Marketing 98

SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can also be effectively used by meeting and event teams of all sized to deliver better end products. A 7-Step Process A true process will go beyond RFP sourcing and site selection, contracting and negotiations. Step 6: Meeting Logistics Plan and On-site Execution Blueprint Flawless execution is every meeting planner’s dream.

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Conference Site Selections Negotiating Contracts 98

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

On top of the ask, that exact meeting participant may miss telling their children bedtime stories, attending their soccer games, or being present for milestone events like their child’s first steps or words. This could mean places with fun attractions such as theme parks, zoos or historic sites. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Rising hotel and airline costs , along with increasing demand for more and longer meetings is pressuring planners to make critical choices to stay in strict budgets, according to a new study by American Express Meetings & Events. Internal meetings land on the lower end of the spectrum and incentives are the most costly.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A meeting professional’s expertise can go in any number of directions: marketing, adult education, event design, site selection, contracting, event technology … It’s a dynamic role. A discussion with any potential meeting venue should cover air-circulation and air-quality issues.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 28, 2023

To achieve true sustainability, planners should understand where the energy comes from that's powering their meetings. An event venue’s power source has a notable effect on a meeting’s total carbon emissions. Therefore, any measurement of carbon emissions from a meeting would have to take this into account.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Meetings and events expert opens up about innovative event execution Angele du Passage Angele du Passage has been a dedicated leader in the hospitality industry for over 30 years. As a CMP and partner of a meeting services organization, du Passage gives insight on how her background and values contribute to the success of CPG events.

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2024 Hospitality Tourism Site Selections 52

PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2019

One respondent actually was hoping for a slowdown, mentioning this wish-list item for 2019: “A downturn in the market so hotels become more flexible in their revenue-management practices.”. I expect the industry to improve again this year,” one respondent wrote, “as meetings become more innovative.”. “I percent in the 2017 survey.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A veteran planner discusses how she nudges hotels to act on her requests for proposal: She gives to get. First, include or be prepared to share historical information with salespeople,” even if it means including figures for the 2022 edition of the meeting along with, because of the business gap during the Covid pandemic, the 2019 edition.

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Site Selections Hotels 2024 Negotiating 52

PCMA Convene

MARCH 13, 2017

The 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey collected information about the number, size, revenue, and budgets for meetings industry during 2015, as well as information about site visits, booking windows, housing, and other topics: . The average booking window is 2.5 years, slightly above 2.3 years reported in last year’s survey.

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2015 Meetings Site Selections Wireless 74

SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

As we move into the peak season for meetings , conventions and trade shows, event planners should keep in mind that in the United States, good times have brought a historically low unemployment rate and a fierce demand for workers. Doing that helps both planners and attendees feel confident about the people serving their meeting.”.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Hotels Site Selections 73

MeetingsNet

AUGUST 19, 2019

A healthy number of meetings-industry companies made the list, and the rise of unique experience providers shows what your attendees are excited about. There are a healthy number of meeting and event planning companies on the list, check out the slideshow for a sampling of privately held companies with impressive growth rates.

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Meetings Site Selections Social Media Corporate Meetings 81

Event Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We’ve spent nearly thirty years building relationships with the most iconic hotels, brilliant spaces, and creative venues around the globe. Our hotel and venue relationships give us access to locations that deliver the right attendee experiences from moment to moment and provide the perfect backdrop for important brand events.

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Contracts Site Selections Hotels Entertainment 57

Endless Events

JUNE 2, 2020

In fact, she’s meeting planners’ go-to expert in Canadian hotel site selection, helping hotel sales connect better with planners. Joining our incredible host Alex Plaxen is the wonderful Leanne Calderwood. Leanne is a self-proclaimed introvert and an icon of the events industry.

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Site Selections Hotels Events Travel 91

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

November 11, 2016 – Smart Meetings, the leading media company and most trusted resource for meeting professionals, was awarded two Eddie Awards and two Ozzie Awards at the 2016 Eddie & Ozzie Awards by Folio in New York City. 1 resource for meeting planners,” says Marin Bright, CEO and founder of Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The report analyzed group booking behavior among meeting professionals who use Cvent Supplier Network to predict trends for the next two years. As meeting demand goes up, so do RFPs—and prices often follow. The conclusions of the Cvent report support the notion that site selection is much like pumpkin picking.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the holiday season rapidly approaches, so does the creeping anxiety many meeting professionals begin to experience as high demand for booking spaces and securing event staff begins ramping up. But that’s okay—Smart Meetings has your back. Safety needs to be considered before, during and after site selection.

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Site Selections Venues Hotels Contracts 105

Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2017

For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. Brett Sterenson, Hotel Lobbyists. “In-house Their concerns are my concerns.

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Connect Your Meetings

JUNE 6, 2019

Most recently, he was a third-party operator for a housing and site selection company. Back in my hotel days, I lived out west in the Rocky Mountains and I missed that. I want us to be to be thought of as the sports and meetings destination in this region. Where do you see meetings coming from?

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Site Selections Transportation Tech Sports 72

Connect Your Meetings

MAY 23, 2017

The lack of turnover made the move to HelmsBriscoe an easy sell for Malark after spending most of his career with hotel brands like Promus Hotel Corp. It’s also the hallmark of a company celebrating its 25th anniversary this year as one of the industry’s leading site-selection agencies. and Doubletree.

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Site Selections Negotiating Hotels Conference 75

Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

So if a convention hotel says they had a great June, that means they had a lot of events occur in June, all of which were likely booked months or years prior. Leisure travel will return first, and when air and hotel numbers start going up in decent numbers, that’s a strong indicator. Hotels will be converted to apartments.

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2021 Site Selections Contracts Venues 111

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 16, 2023

based global urbanist Greg Clark, who spoke at the IMEX Policy Forum in Frankfurt in May, told Joint Meetings Industry Council’s The Iceberg platform. ESTRO would send out a dual RFP, which included the functional aspects — infrastructure, event space, number of hotels, and the like — and also an engagement RFP.

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2025 2021 Site Selections 2024 96

Connect Your Meetings

JUNE 7, 2019

His goal, which he has been working on for months—and taking meetings about, naturally—is to place the spotlight on the industry through reality television. The second would concentrate on event operations, including site selection, site visits and day-of drama.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

You can certainly pick one of the ordinary places to hold your next meeting – or you can get off the beaten path and choose Tucson, located in the heart of the gorgeous Sonoran Desert. Why did USA Today include Tucson in a list of cities emerging as a “top pick for biz meetings”? The Power of Connection.

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Site Selections Hotels Meetings Conference 51

PCMA Convene

JULY 9, 2021

Ke wrote: “It has now become clear that meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift.”. For most associations, hosting meetings and conferences fall into their regular operations. Laura Kate Bender. An Eco-Friendly Events Ecosystem. On the Program.

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Tourism Government Sustainability 2030 105

MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Spacebase, a website for finding and booking unconventional, non-hotel venues for small meetings, has expanded out of Europe, with a just-launched presence in New York. read more.

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Meetings Hotels Venues Site Selections 40

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future? Despite the presence of the 2.6

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Negotiating Site Selections 2014 Hotels 42

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

You can certainly pick one of the ordinary places to hold your next meeting – or you can get off the beaten path and choose Tucson, located in the heart of the gorgeous Sonoran Desert. Why did USA Today include Tucson in a list of cities emerging as a “top pick for biz meetings”? The Power of Connection.

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Site Selections Hotels Meetings Conference 40

Unique Venues

JULY 13, 2022

Traditional Options with On-Site Accommodations. There are several hotels in the area with both indoor and outdoor accommodations for your wedding. Reserve the courtyard at the DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago-Alsip, a recently renovated hotel that can easily accommodate 600 wedding guests.

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Site Selections Hotels Venues Conference 36

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future? Despite the presence of the 2.6

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Negotiating Site Selections 2014 Hotels 40

Maritz Global Events

AUGUST 15, 2019

It affects everything from the site selection process right through to delivery. Both Talley and Goedegebuure agree that it takes the entire event community—from venues, hotels, DMCs and more—to help ensure guest safety. This has probably become—in discussions I’ve had with clients and colleagues—item number one.”.

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Global Events Site Selections Hotels Events 66

Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2016

Association and specialty meeting professionals are spinning the reels and landing big hits with conferences and conventions held at casino resorts and gaming properties. Read more on gaming and meetings: Las Vegas Vet Mo Robinson Talks Casinos, Meetings and How They Mix. 3 Casino Resorts Betting on Meetings.

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