Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. Top 10 Meeting Destinations in North America 1.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

The Nevada Senate has approved plans for a renovation and expansion to the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), home to thousands of business events, including CES®, the world’s largest innovation event, which draws 165,000+ attendees to Las Vegas annually. Las Vegas is one of the world’s top destinations for trade shows.

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Skift

AUGUST 17, 2021

Under new Nevada guidelines, event planners in destinations like Las Vegas (pictured) can forgo mask mandates if they require proof of vaccinations. Ameer Basheer / Unsplash Skift Take: For the adamant mask opponents, this new edict from the Nevada governor may be the impetus to get vaccinated.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

With Labor Day symbolically closing out the summer season and ushering in fall – a prime meetings and convention time – organizations are trying to decide on the best approach to gathering given the ever-shifting COVID landscape. Just a few short weeks ago it seemed like “all systems go” again for the meetings and events industry.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 11, 2024

Meeting Space Harrah’s Las Vegas boasts 25,000 sq. of impressive meeting space, featuring the expansive 12,000 sq. Nevada Ballroom which can be partitioned into six individual meeting rooms and is equipped with state-of-the-art audio-visual technology. This modern conference center offers 550,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 1, 2024

Its 399 suites feature views of Lake Tahoe or the Sierra Nevada mountains. of indoor and outdoor meeting and event space across four meeting rooms and three outdoor venues. The post New and Renovated: Waterside vs. City Skyline Views appeared first on Smart Meetings. The property is home to more than 14,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2021

What does it mean to “meet smart” in a post-Covid-19 world? The recipe for a can’t-miss meeting starts with easy access and ample meetings and event space. The meetings and events pros in Las Vegas have been thinking about how to get everyone together safely for the last year, and they have developed some creative answers.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2021

What does it mean to “meet smart” in a post-Covid-19 world? The recipe for a can’t-miss meeting starts with easy access and ample meetings and event space. The meetings and events pros in Las Vegas have been thinking about how to get everyone together safely for the last year, and they have developed some creative answers.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2022

The summer of 2023 will herald a new era of meetings in South Lake Tahoe with the arrival of the over $100-million Tahoe South Events Center. The site of the events center, currently under construction at Stateline, Nevada, is conveniently located near major hotels and casinos including Harveys Lake Tahoe, Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and others.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 30, 2024

Smart Meetings: What is the role of the Las Vegas Host Committee? Read More : Formula 1 Las Vegas Sees a Successful Inaugural Event We work closely with Clark County, the State of Nevada and other local jurisdictions and agencies to ensure we provide a seamless and unforgettable Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

How the meetings industry is celebrating #GMID2023 Destinations across the United States are showing just how much #meetingsmatter. This year marks the sixth annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), hosted by U.S. It’s so vital that it’s worth celebrating, read below see ways meeting profs are doing just that.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With the hotel-workers strike in Southern California now more than 10 weeks old, another Unite Here chapter in another major meetings destination is prepared to vote on whether they too should bring a strike into play. The hotels are operated by Caesars Entertainment, Four Seasons, MGM, Virgin, and Wynn, among others.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2021

As the industry starts looking forward to meeting again, it will need enlightened leadership more than ever. “In Smart Meetings sat down with Rach, who is renowned for her “uncommon sense”, on a Zoom call from her home in Henderson, Nevada, to ask what specific skills will be required of meeting professionals to get to a more positive future.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Christy Loy Christy Loy, Meet Minneapolis Loy takes on the role of senior vice president of destination sales at Meet Minneapolis. Throughout his career, he has developed expertise across various sectors of the tourism industry, including convention and meeting sales and destination partner relations.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A near unanimous number of members from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, the largest labor union in Nevada, and the Bartenders Union Local 165 have voted to authorize a strike on the Las Vegas Strip, following tens of thousands of hospitality workers casting their votes at Thomas and Mack Center on the University of Nevada’s campus.

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Endless Events

MARCH 21, 2022

Remo is a map-based virtual event platform that has been building events and meetings since 2018. “ Remo is a map-based virtual meeting and event platform. We have universities that want to do their football stadium on a map and you come and have a meeting in the stadium. Introducing Remo, A Map-Based Event Platform.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Yesterday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board unanimously recommended to the Nevada Gaming Commission that it approve Hard Rock International’s licensure and acquisition of The Mirage Hotel & Casino.”. The post TWT: Mirage Isn’t Closing…Yet appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2021

MGM Resorts International took a major step in its own battle against climate change with the launch of its 100-megawatt solar array in the Nevada desert, enough to power an average of 27,000 U.S. The post MGM Resorts International Hits Sustainability Milestone appeared first on Smart Meetings. MGM Resorts. Covering 65 million sq.

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Skift

AUGUST 19, 2019

Cvent Connect 2019 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cvent / Flickr Skift Take: Most planners still have a hard time sourcing and booking the right venue for an event. High costs and rude salespeople are only a couple of the obstacles they face despite new technology aimed to help ease the process.

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Connect Your Meetings

MAY 15, 2019

The meeting spaces include 24 newly enhanced and upgraded rooms that provide 33,000 square feet of flexible indoor meeting space in addition to 14,750 square feet of outside space with views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The post Take Your Meeting Outside in Squaw Valley, California appeared first on Connect Association.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 19, 2021

The pandemic has been a very rough time for the nation’s destination marketing organizations , as it has for the hospitality and meetings industry as a whole. Tourism and San Diego Tourism Authority, and even one Nevada destination, Visit Henderson —participated in an hour-long Zoom road show this week. Keeping Eyes on the Screens.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 3, 2021

He’s also worked as regional vice president of sales for Hyatt Hotels, as well as Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa, Grand Hyatt Denver, Hyatt Regency Orlando and Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe in Incline Village, Nevada. Before joining Innisbrook, Riggio was resort sales director for Disney Meetings & Events in Florida. Mary Rogers.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Where better to celebrate the resiliency of the meetings industry than in Las Vegas , where 2 million sq. of meeting space was added since the beginning of 2020? Smart Meetings had its own bubble in the meeting center amid a whopping 250,000 sq. Meeting professionals who fly though the air together, do deals together.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Read More: Defy Conventional Meetings in Sacramento Education for Prosperity, in Life and Work On the first day, attendees met one-on-one with select industry partners to efficiently connect with organizations that offer solutions specific to their association’s needs. This year’s Seasonal Spectacular took place from Tuesday, Dec.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Locals argue endlessly over who’s got the best, but you won’t go wrong with the soul-satisfying shrimp and oyster version that arrives “fully dressed” at 5Fifty5, which specializes in cuisine redolent of the fabled food region, in this Canal Street meetings mecca. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas , Nevada. food truck.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Sarah Blose, CMP, DMCP, 37, works in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as an a ccount manager for Destination Tahoe Meetings & Events. The post 2019 40 Under 40: Sarah Blose, CMP, DMCP, Destination Tahoe Meetings & Events appeared first on Connect Association. Connect with Blose on Twitter. .

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JANUARY 9, 2022

Spread the Word Nevada, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing childhood literacy, brought nearly 10,000 children’s books to Caesar’s Forum in four big boxes for volunteers to sort and prep. Mempin shared how the books provided by the program helped her “escape” the challenges she experienced as a young child new to Nevada.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Getting everyone gracefully from point A to meeting B is one of the challenges event professionals wrestle with every day, even if those points are simply from airport to venue and back again. Read More : Meeting Profs Travel Report: Brightline Adds Orlando The 11.5-mile mile extension serves as a Metrorail link between downtown D.C.

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Connect Your Meetings

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Others like it, designed as special events during conventions and meetings, are happening throughout Colorado , Nevada and California. And as recreational marijuana achieves greater acceptance, cannabis events could become a regular part of many mainstream meetings, conventions and incentive programs. Grassroots Appeal.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 26, 2023

A trip that will take just over two hours brings new possibilities for increasing meeting attendance in both cities—and for offering more pre- and post-event opportunities. government, while a group of legislators from California and Nevada wrote a letter to the U.S. billion loan from the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Key moments of Preview Las Vegas 2024 included appearances by Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo, Las Vegas Chamber President and CEO Mary Beth Sewald, Applied Analytics Principal Analyst Jeremy Aguero, MLB A’s President John Fisher, and F1’s Renee Wilm and Betsy Fretwell.

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APRIL 27, 2022

We asked pioneering meeting planner Jackie James, World of Concrete group director, for tips from her boots-on-the-ground experience. Our audience needed the show; the industry wanted to meet,” she said. We value the ability to do this even more after not being able to meet for so long.”.

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Unique Venues

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The University of Colorado in Colorado Springs houses flexible meeting spaces, comfortable lodging, on-campus dining, and state-of-the-art presentation technology for up to 800 attendees in its 35 various and flexible meeting spaces. Here are our top pick venues for meeting in the Mountain Region! Miller Conference Center.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2021

Las Vegas felt almost pre-Covid over the long holiday weekend as pandemic restrictions eased in Nevada and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated guidance on domestic travel to low risk for the fully vaccinated. People meet to connect, communicate and improve their business. Conventioneers Return.

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Bizzabo

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Attending these conferences will allow you to learn more about the events industry and meet other event professionals. A premier B2B event in the Baltic Sea Region for the meetings industry that will accelerate the interest in, and demand for, holding meetings, incentives, and conferences in the area. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Innov8 Meetings + Events named Castellanos director of global events. Before Harrah’s SoCal, she was director of finance for Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino in Maricopa, Arizona, and Harrah’s Reno in Nevada. The post Smart Moves in Lake Geneva, Cancun and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Mary Castellanos. Michael Zorn.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this role, she will oversee the areas of Northern California, Northern Nevada, Oregon, Washington state and western Canada. Read More: Smart Moves in Houston, Chicago and More The post Smart Moves in The Palm Beaches, Los Angeles and More appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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