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Crisis Communication: Tips for Event Safety

Event Leadership Institute

The swimming pool of meeting and event safety has a variety of items floating in it, from physical safety and health concerns to climate change and political upheaval. Meeting planners have very full plates these days. When it comes to handling crisis communication, the meeting planner won’t be doing it alone.

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How Meeting Planners Book, Plan, and Execute Their Events

PCMA Convene

The 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey collected information about the number, size, revenue, and budgets for meetings industry during 2015, as well as information about site visits, booking windows, housing, and other topics: . On average, respondents’ use of virtual meetings and events went up nearly 0.3

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28th Annual Meetings Market Survey: Slower Growth Ahead

PCMA Convene

I expect the industry to improve again this year,” one respondent wrote, “as meetings become more innovative.”. “I I expect the industry to improve again this year,” one respondent wrote, “as meetings become more innovative.”. 33 percent expect to plan more meetings in 2019; only 4 percent expect to plan fewer meetings.

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The Inc. 5000 List Gives Insight into Meeting and Event Trends

MeetingsNet

A healthy number of meetings-industry companies made the list, and the rise of unique experience providers shows what your attendees are excited about. There are a healthy number of meeting and event planning companies on the list, check out the slideshow for a sampling of privately held companies with impressive growth rates.

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Is paid influencer marketing ethical in the event industry?

Conferences that Work

Brand X’s Property in Somewhere, USA is a client of ours, and I am working on an influencer campaign to help promote Property Z’s event spaces as ideal venues for conferences and corporate meetings. Brand X would love to have you–a known industry expert on event/meeting planning–involved in this campaign!

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Breaking Down Convene’s Meetings Market Survey: What It Means for Venues

All Seated

. To get to the heart of how the needs of planners and organizers are changing, we dug into PCMA Convene’s recently released 28 th Annual Meetings Market Survey. So how can meeting venues best connect with those who prefer online searches and other digital marketing tools to guide site selection choices? The answer?

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Adjusting Strategies to Changing Business Models

PCMA Convene

ESTRO social media) The pandemic has upended destinations’ view of business events as some kind of “subsidiary of tourism,” U.K.-based based global urbanist Greg Clark, who spoke at the IMEX Policy Forum in Frankfurt in May, told Joint Meetings Industry Council’s The Iceberg platform.

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