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Choosing a Unique Event Venue To Make a Memorable Statement

Endless Events

There’s still a place for planning events with conventional venue layouts, particularly with corporate conferences and workshops. Moreover, if you decide to stay with a traditional venue, you might want to explore unique seating layouts. That’s where choosing a unique event venue to wow your attendees comes in. Let’s get to it!

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The Rise of Esports: Attracting Attendees, Sponsors, and New Venues

PCMA Convene

On the surface, esports competitions may seem to have little in common with traditional conferences and meetings, but Gonzalez believes that event organizers can take cues from the surging popularity of esports — an industry predicted to be worth more than $3 billion by 2025 — when thinking about designing an experience for any audience.

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New & Renovated: A Step Outside the Ordinary

Smart Meetings

While every hotel or venue has something that makes it unique, some simply go above and beyond. of meeting space. In the middle of $10 million of multiphase renovations, the Central Los Angeles venue most recently revealed five new meeting rooms. of meeting space—is taking it a step further.

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Best of: New & Renovated 2018

Smart Meetings

Keeping track of renovations and the emergence of important new properties is a fundamental part of a meeting planner’s work, and the task has become more challenging recently with the huge upsurge in construction. Boasting marvelous beaches and plenty to see and do, Florida is a prime location to host a meeting or to visit during a vacation.

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Postcards From Montreux: Accor Hotels’ Global Meeting Exchange in Switzerland

PCMA Convene

My final destination was the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, a five-minute walk from the train station, and the site of Global Meeting Exchange 2019 (GME 2019), hosted by Accor Hotels. In total, the hotel offers more than 40,000 square feet of meeting space and 15 meeting rooms. Their strategy, said Accor’s deputy CEO, Chris J.

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Westminster academic celebrates fifth anniversary of Event Tech Lab.

Event Industry News

As a result, we have been represented and publicised across many international shows from IMEX in Frankfurt and Las Vegas to the association congress in Gothenburg, IBTM in Barcelona, Best of Events in Dortmund and Digital China in Shanghai.”. He had this to say about his experience as part of the lab community. Areas of interest. Event Tech.

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Crowd Dynamics: How to Prevent Crowd Crush Through Proper Planning

Decibel Management

” At the time, we were reviewing the New Year’s Eve stampede in Shanghai, and the Germany Love Parade disaster of 2010 to learn how best to plan for and avoid these types of tragedies at events. Venue Design. Safe venue design is paramount when developing your layout. Image of Stage Barrier T Shape Design. Communications.

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