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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Muhly is director of sales, events and marketing for Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center. Before working in sales and marketing, he spent 15 years in food and beverage roles with Hyatt. She comes from nearby destination organization Visit Dana Point, where she worked as director of sales and marketing.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Bill Jordan Jordan is director of sales and marketing for The Kimpton Pittman Hotel Dallas. Before Visit San Antonio, Bippert worked as director of sales and marketing for The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum and Texas Ranger Museum, and sales and marketing manager for Alamo IMAX Theatre Rivercenter, both in San Antonio. and Canada.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Wilson is hotel general manager for The Source Hotel + Market Hall in Denver. She previously worked as hotel general manager for The Hotel Zags Portland in Oregon. Wilson has also worked in Oregon as general manager for Hotel Vintage Portland, where she was named the Pebby Awards Best Director of 2020. Rachel Wilson.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Scott Cochran and Kitty Chau Scott Cochran (left) and Kitty Chau (right) Cochran is complex general manager and Chau is complex director of sales and marketing for dual-property Le Meridien and Element Salt Lake City Downtown. Anya Buitrago Hotel La Compania in Casco Antiguo, Panama, named Buitrago director of sales and marketing.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2021

As meeting professionals are getting ready to head back into ballrooms across the country, Smart Meetings thought it was important to reflect on what we learned over the last year, how we changed and what we are looking forward to when we meet again. I kept asking, ‘What is my function if people aren’t meeting?’ ”.

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JULY 15, 2020

One of the massive financial challenges facing destination marketers all over the country is the sudden loss of funding from transient occupancy taxes when hotel properties were forced to at least temporarily close to slow the spread of novel coronavirus , a budget-killing reality that is still happening in many parts of the country.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Schroeter is director of sales and marketing and Stephens is general manager for DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Doheny Beach in Dana Point, California. In 2019, Neal left ATL Airport District to work with 1600 Hospitality Group as meetings and events consultant. Jerusalem and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Eyal Goldberger.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2022

Hôtel Barrière Fouquet’s New York appointed Stellardo general manager and Menechella to director of marketing and communications for the Americas. Menechella brings over eight years of hospitality business and marketing experience. She began at New York’s The Mark Hotel, where she later became director of marketing.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Before Choose Chicago, Anderson was regional director of marketing for The Peninsula Hotels. Before this, Totaro worked as general manager at Atlantic City Convention Center, assistant general manager for Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati and assistant executive director at Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Janice Tugaoen Kimpton Hotel Palomar Los Angeles-Beverly Hills also brought Tugaoen on board as area director of sales and marketing. Tugaoen previously worked as director of sales and marketing for The Westin Long Beach in California. Felicia Rahm Rahm is the new director of sales and marketing at Yotel Boston.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 16, 2022

He has been regional director of sales and marketing at InterMountain Management, overseeing eight Washington and Oregon properties, and director of revenue management for over six years at Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle. welcomed Ahmed as senior vice president of market strategy. Edward Searle and George Sous, MBA.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 8, 2022

International hospitality group Accor appointed Erney executive director of global sales for meetings, incentives and industry relations. She brings over 25 years of sales and events experience, recognized in 2019 as Supplier of the Year (Doer category) by Smart Meetings. and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Ron Bracco.

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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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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 26, 2024

Throughout his 15 years of experience, he has shown his ability to apply market trends, diligent strategic outreach and achieve corporate revenue and direct sales goals. He will work to bring large-scale meetings and conventions to Oklahoma City by promoting the destination’s new and growing convention offerings.

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CadmiumCD

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the most difficult tasks when it comes to planning out your event marketing is figuring out how to market your recorded conference. If people are there to meet other people, and you’re trying to sell your content, you might have trouble getting a return on investment if you’re charging them for the content after the fact.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

of meeting space, a signature restaurant and maker spaces in the heart of the former Egg Basket of the World’s quaint downtown), Southern California’s Pacific Grove (225 guest rooms, 10,000 sq. of meeting space, and a signature restaurant on 5.5 of meeting space, and a signature restaurant on 5.5

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 29, 2021

As the city of Austin has worked toward carbon neutrality, the Austin Convention Center has been leading the charge by buying carbon offsets, converting to renewable energy, and focusing on ways to be one of the greenest places to meet in the U.S. The events industry is helping to grow that market.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Provenance Hotels , headquartered in Portland, Oregon , are participating in a Cyber sale, taking half off regular prepaid rates—with no fees or changes to the rate you received, regardless of trip adjustments through 2021. In Grand Est, the Alsace Safari invites guests for a magical tour that visits three Christmas markets.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Amanda Rodriguez Miami’s Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel named Rodriguez director of sales and marketing. She also worked as a meeting planner for American Public Works Association in Kansas City, Missouri. Nicolopoulos comes from Portland, Oregon, where he worked as general manager for Hyatt Regency Portland.

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JUNE 1, 2017

With works from 25 local artists on display throughout the rooms, common spaces, and meeting environments, the FOUND:RE is a testament to why so many major brands are borrow-ing cues from boutiques: because travelers crave a sense of approachable authenticity. “We Meanwhile, fans were arriving for Final Four weekend.

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JULY 29, 2022

Most recently, Sullivan served as director of sales and marketing at Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. Moussa is now director of sales and marketing at Doha, Qatar’s The Chedi Katara Hotel & Resort , the newest hotel by GHM Luxury Hotels & Resorts. Ali Moussa. Jennifer Duffy. Thomas Nicholson and Sergiu Les.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Offering their expertise on the subject was Cvent’s marketing manager, Brooke Gracey, and team lead, Cody Liskh from their offices in Portland, Oregon. Additionally, podcasts are an added platform to market events: professionals can easily use them to “tease” content out of plug their events. Areas of interest. Brand Events.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2019

He’s held leadership positions in food and beverage as well as hotel operations for properties across the country, including The Arrabelle at Vail Square in Colorado, Sunriver Resort in Bend, Oregon, and Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California. Trish McClean Visit Baltimore has named McClean its director of brand marketing.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do the Portland and Tempe markets differ? Three hundred thirty days of sunshine each year allows for even more activity than you could perhaps partake in in Oregon, although people do go outside all year there. The sweet spot here is meetings with between 10 and 500 attendees. They are both great places, no question.

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Guidebook

JULY 17, 2016

Here at Guidebook, we share a lot of strategies for planners from tech tools to try, sponsor package ideas , and specific event marketing timelines. We love this analogy originally shared on another post by Tom Spano, Head of Sales and Marketing at Goombal. But there are some fundamental strategies that never go out of style.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The business is so successful that it is now synonymous with cannabis tourism, providing digital resources in hundreds of locations including Oregon, California, Alaska , Barcelona and Jamaica. But it’s not just the tourism industry that’s latching onto this idea; it’s affecting the meetings market, too.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 26, 2023

Homelessness and property damage made headlines on national news, casting the Pacific Northwest in an unfavorable light as a tourist and meetings destination. of meeting space spanning up to 65 meeting rooms, an expansive lobby area, a garden terrace, mixing zone, with 570,290 sq. of total meeting space.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon , employs at-risk foster and homeless youth to create swag attendees love to take home. Training includes creating promotional items, marketing and graphic design. New Avenues INK has mainly focused most of our efforts on the Portland-local and Oregon-local community.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Event managers share what cities and meeting properties have impressed them with pleasantly surprising site visits. “I I think Albuquerque would make a great destination for small to midsize meetings of under 1,000 attendees.”. I was surprised by The Nines in Portland, Oregon. It was awesome! I had never been to the city.

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Connect Your Meetings

MARCH 14, 2018

After nearly two decades at Visit Phoenix, Jessie returned last year to Oregon—a homecoming of sorts for the University of Oregon graduate. What is an interesting innovation you’ve seen in regards to destination marketing? How do you include diversity in your marketing approach? “We put on a hat or a hood.

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Connect Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Connect Diversity in Portland, Oregon, took a page from Maya Angelou, who once said that there is beauty and strength in diversity. Tamara Kennedy-Hill MBA, CMP, vice president of diversity and community relations at Travel Portland led a panel on inclusion and diversity in the meetings world. Here are some our key takeaways.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 1, 2017

Marriott announced the Build Your Own Mini Bar in the West Package in May, available at 28 of their properties in California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Guests who book this deal get $20 daily to use towards food and beverage items sold in the hotel’s general store, The Market. Desks come in handy, too.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

FoST participants travel to the meeting by private ferry. So we have some corporate-marketing-type people, we have some advertising-/branding-type people, but we have content people, journalists, filmmakers, authors, musicians—all of these traditional types of storytelling. Everybody gets the chance to become a star.”. THE COMMUNITY.

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JULY 20, 2016

Flow, Meeting and Event Planners Can Now Connect Disparate Systems into Complete End­to­End Solutions. July 6, 2016, Portland, Oregon. It will also help small emerging technology companies with innovative products compete for market share with larger legacy systems by bundling and connecting their platforms with other products.

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Unique Venues

MAY 6, 2020

The resort can customize many mountain adventures for your guests and is famous for chair lift rides to the top of North Star Mountain, meeting breakout sessions at the Kootenay Haus Mountain Top Log Cabin, sightseeing, and hiking. This four-season resort town possesses spectacular mountain views and endless outdoor recreational activities.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 5, 2019

The online survey, which went live on 1 st August provides anyone working in the meeting and event industry the ability to contribute opinions and commitments to how the global event industry could achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Other partners include IMEX, Maritz and The Oregon Convention Centre. Event Tech.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Technical Meeting & Event Production. Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals. Meeting & Event Job Openings. Marketing Internship | Wow! Events Marketing Manager, Google Cloud | Google | Mountain View, CA. Event Coordinator / Event Marketing | Mammoth Marketing | Denver, CO. Learn More.

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