Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Everywhere you looked, there was a football visual in sight, whether it was a ginormous projection display of Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers players on the side of Caesars Palace or a replica Lombardi Trophy in a hotel lobby. Agency: Dorothy) INVISALIGN Invisalign offered meet-and-greets and star sightings—and signings.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Here’s our report from September 29, “ Hurricane Ian Damages Florida’s Peak Meetings Season.”. Gallery Slide description: MeetingsNet’s six-part report in May on planners’ sources of stress and their coping strategies hit a nerve with readers dealing with staff shortages, a sellers’ market, virtual meetings, and more.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2017

There is no lack of meeting space at this resort. The expansion has taken CRN into a lot of new markets—Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Hilton Head, Savannah, Charlotte, Birmingham and Hawaii Kona. Booking one of these venues is just a few simple mouse clicks away. and can fit almost 9,500 attendees for a reception.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Freeman has worked at New York venues such as Windows on the World and Russian Tea Room before serving as vice president of public relations and strategic partnerships for Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants. Up & Coming Food City o The Year: Keen on Kansas City. Now president of San Francisco-based AF&Co.,

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SmartMeetings

JULY 13, 2017

The expansion has taken CRN into several new markets, including Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Hilton Head, Savannah, Charlotte, Birmingham and Hawaii Island’s Kona Coast. Booking these venues has been made easier as well. CRN debuted a new website with enhanced features for event professionals.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 20, 2016

Pokémon can crop up anywhere, and some event venues are capitalizing on the trend to attract even more foot traffic. Travel Portland put together a similar list , as did Visit Houston , and eXplore Lawrence , in Lawrence, Kansas.) . “We A Pokémon is ready for battle at the Anaheim Convention Center. “It The post was the No.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

The virtual site tour for Excel London features a series of videos for different venues within the complex. After a year spent moving in-person events to digital platforms and monitoring the shifts in the feasibility of meeting in person, the timelines for holding safe in-person meetings in the future are slowly coming into focus.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. And more and more, they’re asking questions about a destination’s local expertise and knowledge base.

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Unique Venues

JULY 9, 2020

Striking and Memorable Events At Scottsdale Private Event Venues. Your event at Scottsdale Private Event Venues is only limited by your imagination. The special events department of the Kansas City Chiefs football organization is focused on making Arrowhead Stadium an entertainment destination that serves the entire Midwest region.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2017

These top-tier cities are meetings hotspots, with enough convention space and hotel rooms to accommodate thousands of attendees at any given time, plus the cultural amenities and intangible cachet to keep them around. Convene recently spoke with representatives from three such cities that recently have hosted renowned international meetings.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

AUGUST 13, 2018

by Loews in Arlington, Texas, will open in summer 2019 and feature 302 rooms and 35,000 square feet of meeting space. Loews Kansas City, opening in the first quarter of 2020, will have 800 guest rooms and more than 60,000 square feet of meeting space. The hotel will be adjacent to the new Texas Live!

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) is a registered trademark of the Events Industry Council. Rethinking Destination Marketing. How do you keep your destination top of mind when planners can’t visit and groups can’t meet during the pandemic? Kansas City’s American Jazz Museum. ReThinking Creativity. Michelle Russell.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The first strategy meeting was with the city and the city leaders,” said Colette Jones, Destination Cleveland’s vice president of marketing. By the beginning of 2014, Cleveland and seven other cities were in the running: Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.

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