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Experts: Travel Industry Could Coast Through Recession

Smart Meetings

“This is an e ngineered recession, a recession by design,” said Christian Savelli, director of tourism economics with Oxford Economics, speaking at IACC Americas Knowledge Exchange this week in Durham, North Carolina. Just don’t call it a trade show,” he advised. Virtual participation has fallen off a cliff,” Meyer said.

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Keep Meetings Caffeinated: 3 Coffee-Forward Destinations to Wake Up Your Event

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Seriously— Coffee Fest , the B2B trade show for coffee professionals, is coming to Indianapolis in May 2019. As for the industry that most relies on the coffee industry (that’s us, meeting profs!), Door Delivery in Durham, North Carolina. there are plenty of opportunities to get your attendees buzzing.

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Trying to Solve for Networking in a Virtual Event

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For scientific conferences with trade-show components, attendees can meet with exhibitors in one-on-one virtual appointments. We would have had 400 people” at the in-person meeting planned for Auckland, she said, “and we had more than 1,300 people watching on day one.” Growing Pains. and the U.K.

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Progress Report: Global Convention Center Outlook

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of meeting and exhibition space, Las Vegas hosts approximately 22,000 meetings, conventions and trade shows annually. North Carolina. Las Vegas Convention Center. With nearly 150,000 hotel rooms and more than 11 million sq. million sq. This is after TD Bank’s naming rights expired on January 31.

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Empower Your Event Team and Energize Your Event with These Trends

Endless Events

Charlotte in North Carolina will be the host of a facility that can host up to 54 breakout sessions at once. Tech Trends for Your Next Trade Show. Standing out in a trade show means getting lots of different factors right, and one of them is the technology. New York’s Jacob K. Click To Tweet.