Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

Hop on the train for travel and team-building For meeting professionals and their clients, traveling can be crucial to the job. Travelers may want to consider a more affordable and scenic experience—a good old fashioned train ride.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Skift Take: A chief travel officer role could streamline current business travel processes, but will this role be taken by a human or AI? Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Skift Take: By now it's old news that business professionals are looking for bleisure travel experiences. How can meeting planners and event organizers capitalize on this growing movement? Marriott Bonvoy Events™ Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Here are five ideas for five different types of events.

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MAY 23, 2023

Skift Take: Skift Research reports complete travel recovery as the current Travel Health Index has topped 100, indicating that global tourism is now performing better than it did before the pandemic. Every region in the index has grown, and meeting professionals must take note.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But as promising as this sounds, the hurdles facing SAF as a solution to the air-travel industry producing 2.5 A new means of offsetting carbon from air travel is converting carbon to non-degradable blocks for long-term storage, a process known as carbon casting. percent of global carbon emissions are significant.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Travel Association Says Airlines in the United States Are Sub-Par In a new quarterly press conference launched today , the U.S. Travel President and CEO, Geoff Freeman. Travel National Chair and Hilton President and CEO Chris Nassetta. Freeman was joined on the presentation by incoming U.S. Other issues that U.S.

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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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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 23, 2020

During my career leading association event teams, I regularly recalibrated and redefined team member roles in order to drive innovation and improve our meeting experiences. We are in the middle, I hope, of an extraordinary time in the meetings industry. Meaningful Engagement.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Skift Take: California's travel ban is no more. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings State-sponsored events can once again take place in any of the 26 states previously banned. Instead, California will fund outreach to LGBTQ communities in those states.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 4, 2023

With leisure travel strong and transient business travel well below pre-pandemic levels, the number of flights into and out of some big cities are being cut. But with the post-pandemic situation quite different, that business-traveler perk seems to be going away, at least temporarily. percent lower than they were in June 2019.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Skift Take: The twists and turns of the global travel industry's recovery continue to impact how event destinations are selected. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Some effects are obvious, others not so much.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 1, 2023

A significant percentage of meeting professionals say the NAACP’s advisory will be a factor in site selection. The responses came from 176 meeting professionals—from associations (35.6 We conduct too many meetings across the country to consider politics/social issues in the site selection process : 12.4%

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 19, 2024

Don’t leave home without these With the world wide open for business, you may be headed for an international conference or meeting. Outdated web resources could mean you miss your meeting. Many travelers swear by communication apps like WhatsApp and Skype, which let you phone home as if you were still in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Meeting booking platforms purport to streamline the RFP and venue sourcing processes, saving hours in the search for venues and back-and-forth with sales staff. The post Will Meeting Booking Platforms Ever Be as Automated as Travel Sites? The post Will Meeting Booking Platforms Ever Be as Automated as Travel Sites?

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MARCH 21, 2024

Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings It’s easy to throw your hands up and acquiesce over the feeling of becoming overwhelmed, but a solid plan along with a few fitness hacks may be just what is needed.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 18, 2024

WTP’s Frank Harrison Shares the Top Three Business Travel Trends for the Coming Year Frank Harrison As the travel industry around the world continues to recover post-pandemic, new business travel trends have emerged that meeting professionals will have to master to optimize attendance.

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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

MAY 26, 2023

As travelers post “OOO” on their cell phones and head out to vacation time this long Memorial Day weekend, lower fares but full flights are indicative of some trends that may continue this summer. However, 2023 is predicted to be the most expensive for international travel in more than five years with fares to Europe up over 50% from 2022.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Your attendee travelers are eager to hit the road, but thanks in part to economic challenges like inflation, companies are cutting back on T&E. Those able to travel freely are combining remote work with longer leisure trips. Corporate travel policies may start including air emissions tracking.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

European Travel Is Rebounding Says New Study The European Travel Commission (ETC) has released a new study that says European destinations are “on their way to recovering pre-pandemic tourist arrivals.” Experts anticipate a gradual return of Chinese travelers to Europe from the second quarter of 2023, as significant barriers remain.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The San Francisco Travel Association now looks to Scott Beck to reverse that negative perception. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: The recovery of San Francisco’s tourism and hospitality industry continues to be underscored by a narrative of lawlessness and economic demise.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

People are happy getting back to reclaim their life and their joy and people are traveling. Travel is something people are prioritizing. While these drawbacks have not yet put a dent in leisure travel demand, if this trend continues, travelers will reach a breaking point and some airline brands may be damaged.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meeting Means Business Coalition (MMBC) will fully integrate under U.S. Travel Association , after having close ties in meeting production over the years. Since its founding, Meetings Mean Business Coalition and U.S. The loss recorded in business travel spending in 2020 and 2021 is estimated at upwards of $315 billion.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Are your meetings attendees deterred by the hassles of air travel? Travel Association released new research this week that finds that people are avoiding travel because of airport irritations and flight delays. “On On average, air travelers are avoiding two trips in the next year due to air travel hassles specifically.

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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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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2024

Meetings planners converge to share their experiences April 11th, 2024, marks the annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) where meeting professionals all over the world will be able to share and learn from each other about the importance of the meetings industry on a global scale.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll Always Have Paris…Until Beijing Takes Over A new study from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) shows Paris is the world’s most powerful “city destination” with almost $36 billion USD in 2022 in terms of direct GDP contribution to the city, but it also reveals that Paris will cede its place to up-and-coming Beijing by 2032.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Skift Take: Are you ready for the return of incentive travel? Sue Pelletier Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings. Here are six data-based trends to help you plan ahead. —

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 9, 2023

Tony Sclafani, senior vice president and chief communications officer told Smart Meetings,” No events have been canceled due to the air quality concerns in New York City. American Airlines Ups Summer Travel Extras American Airlines has announced that it will increase Wi-Fi connectivity this summer and offer free Wi-Fi to T-Mobile customers.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The US is easing its travel restrictions on international visitors as of November 8, 2021. The easing of the United States travel ban on international travelers is fast approaching. The post Make America Meet Again: What the US Reopening to Global Travel Will Mean for Events by Paul Cook appeared first on [link].

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Denver and Phoenix lead the way in the resurgence of business travel and meetings in the United States. The company says these bookings “very likely reflect travel by small and medium-sized businesses.”. See also : Border Openings Update: International Business Travel Restarts.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 6, 2023

Others on the flight said the group of men he was traveling with were served alcohol although they were rowdy and already visibly drunk. Our bill will ground the handful of bad actors who continue to travel while protecting airline employees and the traveling public.”

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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? Airline travel seems reasonably safe these days.

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JULY 26, 2022

Travel Association has launched the Sustainable Travel Coalition, designed to bring its members together to develop and focus on strategies that will ensure a more sustainable future. With nearly 60 members, the Sustainable Travel Coalition will act as a forum to inform U.S. The post U.S.

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Master the Event

MARCH 10, 2024

For a meeting and event planner, travel safety is the number one priority in event planning. There’s no doubt that we now live in a world where safety is, or has become, a concern when traveling abroad. Safety 1st should be at the top of a meeting planner’s checklist.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

The country was one of the last major tourist destinations to drop hard-line restrictions on travel, opening finally to travelers on October of last year. Travel Association, warned, “This summer’s travel demand will be as strong as we’ve seen since before the pandemic, and potentially the strongest ever.”

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Skift Take: Internal meetings were supposed to be killed off by video conferencing, but it looks like in-person face-to-face will be back with a bang this year. Matthew Parsons Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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