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Smart Moves: Food and Beverage

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Marelli most recently worked at The Gwen, A Luxury Collection Hotel in Chicago, where, as the property’s pastry chef, she established its first pastry program. She also worked at Chicago’s Langham Hotel as executive pastry chef. Nowak most recently worked as food and beverage specialist at Premier Hotels & Resorts in Guam.

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Smart Moves in Roanoke, New Orleans and More

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Dawson joined Vespera Resort on Pismo Beach, an Autograph Collection Hotel as director of sales for this c entral California coast venue. Bringing over a decade of hospitality sales experience, Dawson was most recently Pacifica Hotels’ regional sales manager. Sharma joined Kimpton Hotel Monaco DC as director of catering.

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15 of 2016’s Hottest Meeting Destinations

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It provides more than 10,000 hotel rooms and nearly 300 restaurants and major conference venues, including Georgia World Congress Center and Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart. Austin: This lively city is best known for its 250 live-music venues, but that only begins to tell its story. of event space. It features 2.6

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Mapping the Way Forward

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Hotels have executed multiple rounds of layoffs and attendees are settling in for an extended case of Zoom fatigue. Hotels and venues, too, are stepping up with protocols and GBAC STAR certifications , but, in many cases, no one is there to answer the meeting planner’s call. Airplanes are clean; they’re being very diligent.

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PCMA Expands Business Events Programming Throughout Asia Pacific

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It provides a venue for industry experts and practitioners to share their views and discuss issues that affect the industry and network with their peers from the Asia-Pacific region,” Natividad said. Knowledge Exchanges are scheduled in: Auckland, New Zealand. Kuala Lumpur. Xiamen, China.

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Up Your Virtual Value Prop

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So, when attendees weigh whether or not to come to your event, they have to parse the cost associated with the tickets, time out of the office, airfare, hotel room—all of that—against the benefits above. Don’t throw away your venue budget; use it for your “new” venue—the online event platform—rather than pillaging the AV budget.

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