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Meeting Profs Travel Report: Who Travels for Business?

Smart Meetings

According to the global survey of 3,850 business travelers in 25 markets: Nearly all global business travelers (94%) are willing to travel for business in the next 12 months, including 67% who are very willing. business travelers (72%) feel they haven’t had equal opportunity. Even more U.S. Even more U.S. Global and U.S.

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Destinations Skill-up to Support Meetings Industry Advances

Smart Meetings

We are at a significant time in the travel industry where we need to authentically reconnect with people and respect the places we choose to visit,” President and CEO of Destinations International Don Welsh said. Much Respect. “We

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Will Airline Pilot Shortage Cripple Second-Tier Markets?

Smart Meetings

Everyone loves to complain about air travel today. The crisis has already landed at the regional airline level, according to Peter Gall, a former American Airlines pilot and now a professor at West Virginia University. Cramped cabins. Added fees for everything. But what if there was no pilot to fly the plane?

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The Environmental Case for Hybrid Events

PCMA Convene

Their goal in moving the conference’s content online — compared with the thousands of conferences forced to move online in the wake of the travel restrictions and health risks brought on by the pandemic — was to experiment. Organizers of the CAREebrs Conference 2019 demonstrate their CARE conference format with this illustration.

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

Could businesspeople be persuaded to stop traveling to meetings, to sit instead in comfortable local studios hundreds of miles apart, handsomely equipped with cameras, microphones, screens, and speakers that magically allowed them to meet as well as if they were all in the same room? There are, however, some downsides.

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6 Smart Moves for The Ritz-Carlton, Hilton and More

SmartMeetings

Jeyakaran was named general manager of the 253-suite Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston, in West Virginia. Tina Gaccetta Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE), in Chicago, appointed Tina Gaccetta head of events. Jeyakaran Hector M. Gaccetta has served as vice president, client services for One10 marketing.

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New Ski Conglomerate Purchases Deer Valley Resort

SmartMeetings

Other resorts purchased by the conglomerate include Square Valley Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain in California, Steamboat Ski Resort and Winter Park Resort in Colorado, Stratton Mountain Resort in Vermont, Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia, Blue Mountain Ski Resort in Ontario, Canada, and Mount Tremblant Resort in Quebec, Canada.

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