Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

A community of female leaders built on welcoming others emphasizes the power of belonging The announcement of the 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Award winners that went out Friday swelled the ranks of leaders honored to more than 1,000 strong. Luxury gifting and venues add to the self-care vibe. She loved everything about the business.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

Sustainability efforts are key to keep the travel and tourism train going. In a report by World Travel & Tourism Council and JLL, “ Destination 2030: Global Cities’ Readiness For Sustainable Tourism Growth ,” the two organizations take a look at the cities making tourism sustainable. million visitors. Concentration.

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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. Here's how to do that—with or without the venue's assistance. An event venue’s power source has a notable effect on a meeting’s total carbon emissions.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 29, 2022

When 112 million viewers tuned in to watch the Super Bowl 2022 pre-game at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles in February, they were treated to a reminder to Dream Big as a flying “Alex” floated up and down the state. Leaders were cautious and protocols are in place at venues and in the community. A History of Innovation.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board announced a partnership with Clear Health Pass and Co.Protect branded protective equipment to help meeting professionals create frictionless solutions for establishing and executing protocols. “We The new reality for venues is that they must find a way to sell and plan events remotely.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Paris 2024 may also achieve the Games’ highest level of sustainability yet by becoming the first to halve its carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016. Sustainability is a key pillar of that roadmap. From Day One, [Paris 2024] was conceived with sustainability in mind.” million tons of CO2.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

15-19 The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting takes over the small Swiss town of Davos during the third week of January for collaborative, public-private discussions on global challenges. Now, marketers are in the mix, too, taking over real estate on the promenade below the convention center where the meeting takes place.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Unionized hotels provide the stability and training that hospitality workers are seeking—they could be part of the solution to the shortage that meeting planners are waiting for. Unite Here created FairHotel to assist meeting and event planners in choosing a union hotel or venue. The Beginnings of Labor Day.

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Event Marketer

MAY 9, 2022

Despite the progress made in the return to in-person, event marketers are facing a new set of challenges related to meeting the expectations of changed audiences and fighting the urge to return to the status quo of pre-pandemic programming. Sustainability goals. Plans change and that’s OK—the important part is to have them.”.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 21, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, meeting planners were tasked with the difficult job of transforming in-person events into virtual ones on an exceptionally tight timeline. Much like Zoom, it hosts online meetings and webinars, but it has several features that make it stand out. Hybrid Events — and Sustainability — Are Here to Stay.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 2, 2022

The Convene editors have each chosen three trends from Wunderman Thompson’s report and connected them to meetings and events. Convene previously reported about a Second Home co-working and meeting space in Los Angeles that includes 6,500 trees and plants in what was once a parking lot. I want to meet the farmer.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2022

Visit Greater Palm Springs in Rancho Mirage, California, appointed Bruggemans director of sustainability and community engagement. He has held similar roles in Baltimore, Atlanta and Los Angeles, and at Omni Hotels & Resorts. Runyon brings 10 years of venue administration and events experience. Lauren Bruggemans.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. For venues and planners, that means looking into the crystal ball to get ahead of event trends and expectations. Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels. Well for starters, don’t blink.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 31, 2024

The 2024 festival included some fresh strategies and brand shake-ups, with Adobe and UTA carving out dedicated brand spaces on Main Street for the first time, and Cotopaxi taking the place of Canada Goose as a sustaining sponsor and the event’s Official Outerwear Jacket. As was a partnership with the L.A.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Discover the top 20 event venues in Pittsburgh! No matter what kind of event you plan to host, one of the venues below will fit the bill. In this article, we'll take a look at the top 20 event venues that Pittsburgh has to offer. When choosing the right event venue , it pays to select a location that offers flexibility.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2018

It was to consist of multiple exhibition halls, a 24,000-square-foot ballroom, 18 meeting rooms and Centre for Dialogue, which would accommodate meetings in the round. of meeting space. New exhibition halls, meeting rooms, an outdoor terrace, banquet space and cafe and bar were also added. Los Angeles.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel. One of the biggest meeting trends Smart Meetings saw this year was the rise of new and improved airport hotels. Throughout the world, really, airport hotels are emerging as key meeting venues that are both convenient and cutting-edge. of meeting space.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That has led to a flood of people living on the streets, a crisis for their communities—but also for hospitality professionals, who want to do the right thing for their attendees, the locations where they meet and, not least, people in need of help. Hack Homelessness. Sherrif Karamat. “We We can’t hide our issues or sweep them under the rug.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 12, 2017

Los Angeles’ exceptional cityscape seems to have it all: rich art and culture, Hollywood stars, grand hotels, the magic of Disneyland and a lively night life. Travel Planners looking to design an event full of retro glam should head to these Los Angeles-area hotels for a dreamy escape. of flexible venue space.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Meeting professionals have always shouldered a hefty bag of tricks to fix the jagged edges that emerge at even the most meticulously polished events. Today, though, even veteran meeting organizers face Code Red calamities previously unimaginable. More than seven percent had produced more than 10 face-to-face meetings during that time.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I had slight misgivings about choosing a cover depicting an anxiety-producing topic — meeting professionals’ concerns over safety and security at their events — for our December issue. What else might be worrying meeting professionals about the state of our industry as President Trump takes office? And so will major U.S.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

DGI has military, civilian and industry geospatial intelligence leaders at this year's meeting in London to discuss new policy developments and the latest in technology. East Meets West. Los Angeles, CA. This event invites the best and brightest hackers in the ever-expanding Swift community to explore new horizons.

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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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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

And there will be growing use of cashless payments and livestreaming at meetings and events. Continued strength in the markets that were slow to add new hotels: Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Detroit. What is one trend that meeting planners should be keeping an eye on in 2017 and beyond? Airfares will be up 2.5

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Unique Venues

JUNE 8, 2020

Its exquisite indoor dining space and large outdoor terrace make it the perfect venue for everything from corporate functions and cocktail receptions, to bar and bat mitzvahs, and weddings. Honey wine, known as mead, is the most sustainable wine on earth and is created by the pollination of honeybees.

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EventBank Insights

JULY 23, 2019

Incorporate sustainability. With a stable internet connection, there’s no reason that a team from New Delhi can’t hack alongside a team from Los Angeles with a live stream between them. By opening it up to all disciplines, your hackathon can send the message that there is no place that technology doesn’t meet the real world.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the meetings and conventions industry is built on relationships — one on one, face to face, rooted in competence and trust. Meetings bring people together, you see, and that applies to the back of the house just as much as it does among attendees. Our readers did not disappoint.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 31, 2017

Best Special-Event Venue. Add a heap o’ meeting space—34,000 sq. Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel. A multi-million-dollar transformation added a fresh design scheme, all-new plush furnishings and tech in the 802 guest rooms, and enhancements to its 38 versatile meeting and functions rooms. of meeting space.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The reinvented meeting included trips to the New School, Radio City Music Hall, and St. By all accounts, the 17,000 or so annual attendees were enjoying it just fine — as they had for more than 150 years, when the then newly formed association wrote annual meetings right into its bylaws. Sustainability?” Patrick’s Cathedral.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Conference capacity is no longer limited to your venue. Virtual conferences allow people to meet without the level of risk that an in-person event would come with. More Sustainable. This makes them a much more sustainable event compared to their in-person counterparts. Prioritizes Safety. This challenge can be overcome.

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