Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

Read More : Meeting Profs Travel Report: Remaining US Travel Restrictions Lifted To put the “advisory” into context, however, the entire countries of China and Egypt are currently under a level 3 advisory. The post Meeting Planners Travel Report: Airlines Get Poor Report Card appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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EventMB

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Skift Take: According to Convene, spending on meetings and events has increased by 35%, while Knowland reports group revenue is at 103% of 2019 levels. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 14, 2023

27%) Their accent (17%, 23%) Their gender (17%, 26%) Their physical appearance (16%, 25%) Their ethnicity or race (15%, 22%) Being a parent or caretaker (13%, 18%) Their sexual orientation (8%, 17%) Their disability (7%, 14%) The survey also reported that remote workers say business travel is critical for workplace relationships.

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EventMB

MAY 10, 2023

Eventbrite has done just that, releasing its inaugural corporate responsibility report featuring some bright spots and opportunities to improve. Mariela Bazán-McIlwraith Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Event Marketer

APRIL 17, 2024

After a successful 2023, almost 80 percent of exhibitors plan to attend the same number of events or more in 2024, and most exhibitor budgets will increase or stay the same, according to the new Freeman 2024 Exhibitor Trends Report released this month. Key insights from the report: Exhibit marketer demographics are shifting.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2023

United Adds New Non-Stops to 100+ International Cities This Summer to Meet ‘Soaring Overseas Travel Demand’ United Airlines has announced that it will fly to 114 different international cities this summer and has expanded its flying by 25% versus last year to meet the sharp increase in demand for travel outside of the U.S.

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EventMB

JANUARY 23, 2024

Skift Take: The "Skift Meetings Megatrends 2024" report serves as an indispensable roadmap for meeting professionals seeking to craft strategic, impactful events that resonate with the demands of a rapidly changing global landscape. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2023

In what may be a ground-changing move for hotels and meeting planners doing business in Florida, Brightline, the only intercity, eco-friendly high-speed rail in the U.S. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: Brightline Adds Orlando appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2023

This week, flights across the United States were canceled or delayed for reasons reported as weather-related due to summer storms, computer-systems related and air traffic control staffing-related. Flightaware.com reported that more than 1,000 flights were canceled and another 2,000 delayed.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Planners foresee more meetings and more attendees per meeting—but also big cost increases in certain areas that will force them to change tactics. In addition, 64 percent of planners expect the size of their meetings to grow this year, with one-third of those planners expecting attendance increases of greater than 10 percent.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. One bright spot has been the normalization of online meetings for routine connection and collaboration. It ain’t necessarily so.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 19, 2023

Meeting Profs Travel: Over Half of Passengers on Flights from China Test Covid-positive Hong Kong has announced the lifting of all mandatory PCR test requirements for inbound travelers; however, travelers coming to the U.S. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Event Industry News

JULY 19, 2022

The Report provides two views of a sector continuing to face multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2021. Number of international association meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: Memorial Day Weekend Sees Lower Airfares appeared first on Smart Meetings. However, airfare to Europe and Asia this summer is already the highest it’s been in more than five years, with trips to Europe averaging over $1,100 per ticket and trips to Asia averaging over $1,800 per ticket.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2023

The report, sponsored by Visa and researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analyzed key indicators such as Travel & Tourism’s contribution to GDP, employment and traveler spend. The post Meeting Planners Travel Report: United CEO Says Chaos Will Continue appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal. In October 2020 I wrote two posts [1 , 2 ] about what a meeting industry new normal might look like. Holding in-person meetings: what do we now know? It’s time to take another look. Accommodations.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2022

Event professionals: it’s time to talk about COVID, duty of care, and the meeting industry. Meanwhile, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention reports that “ Nearly one in five American adults who have had COVID-19 still have Long COVID “ And a U.S. No related posts.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In case you aren’t already familiar with them, Leading Learning has a bunch of free very high quality resources (podcast, blog, research reports) to help guide adult learning strategy in our space. Survey closes on December 1, 2023.

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EventMB

MARCH 14, 2023

Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Google Xi Days colored outside the lines, shifting paradigms to create an all-encompassing future for the events industry.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2023

DOT will leverage the full extent of its investigative and enforcement power to ensure consumers are protected and this process will continue to evolve as the Department learns more,” a DOT spokesperson told Smart Meetings on Friday. For the quarter, American ranked first in completion factor among the nine largest U.S.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

88 percent say face-to-face meetings are critical for ensuring positive long-term relationships between internal colleagues and a healthy company culture. • 88 percent say face-to-face meetings are critical for ensuring positive long-term relationships between internal colleagues and a healthy company culture. •

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The report compared year-to-date data compared to 2019 and showed that about one in two reporting destinations have recovered more than 80% of their pre-pandemic foreign arrivals. Based on year-to-date data, almost one in four of reporting destinations saw U.S. Download the full report here. arrivals exceed 2019 levels.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Meeting Planners Takeaway: Consider that the cost may be anywhere from $15-25 (or possibly more) and that as the system rolls out, electronic delays or snafus are possible. If you have participants meeting in the United Kingdom this year or after 2023, build in education about the requirement in your planning.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 6, 2023

And 17% reported experiencing a physical incident. Swalwell told Smart Meetings: “The abuse of unruly passengers onboard aircrafts must stop. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: The Truth Behind #theladyontheplane Viral Video is Scarier Than You Thought appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In fact, modern corporate meeting planning software can help you optimize and automate processes so that you and your team can save time and resources over time. Here’s how choosing the right corporate meeting planning software can help. One of the best ways to reduce costs is to streamline your existing processes.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online meetings improve access and attendance. The three other meetings did not share historical attendance data.).

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Eventscase Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

A post event report is an essential document that provides a comprehensive analysis of an event’s success, challenges, and outcomes. A well-written report not only helps evaluate the event’s effectiveness but also highlights areas of improvement for future endeavours.

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Skift Take: Stressed teams, less demand, the popularity of drive-to destinations, and shorter lead times are among the findings of the Skift Meetings State of Business Events report. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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EventMB

MAY 26, 2023

ICCA and Cvent unveiled their latest reports at IMEX Frankfurt. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Paused during the pandemic, destination rankings are back.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Planning at least three months ahead could save as much as 10 percent on the bottom line, according to a new 2019 Meetings & Events Future Trends study from Carlson Wagonlit Travel Meetings and Events (CWT M&E). Outside of these booking windows, potential savings dip by 5–10 percent, the report found. Power of Strategy.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 22, 2021

The Report provides two views of a sector now facing multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2020. . Number of international association meetings.

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EventMB

JUNE 14, 2022

AI-powered interpretation platform Wordly released a new report on corporate usage of multilingual interpretation for events. According to the report, six or more languages are spoken at 60 percent of corporate meetings and events with 11 or more languages spoken at nearly a quarter (23 percent) of company gatherings.

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EventMB

AUGUST 24, 2022

Skift Take: As Skift Meetings has been reporting all summer, events have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels. However, Knowland, a data and hospitality technology company that tracks meetings and events volume is optimistic that the industry will be back to 100 percent by the end of 2023.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The last week of November saw nearly 4,000 meeting, convention, and exhibition planners gather in Barcelona, Spain, to meet with each other and 2,500 destination and hotel reps, technology providers, and other industry suppliers, at the IBTM World show. The full version of the IBTM World 2024 Trends Report can be found here.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

NYC & Company Rebrands, Adds ‘Conventions’ to Name NYC & Company, the CVB for Gotham has rebranded as New York City Tourism + Conventions, adding the “conventions” to hit home the value the city has for meeting planners. Meeting Planners Takeaway New York City Tourism + Conventions morphing out of NYC&Co.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

The Group made significant progress on its Net Zero by 2050 transition, achieved important milestones in employee engagement and diversity, and continued to look beyond its borders to convene the hospitality industry in meeting the growing demand of consumers for green travel.

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Skift Take: A new report revealed that in-person meetings may be misunderstood at an executive level and subsequently underfunded. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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