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Smart Moves at PCMA, M&IW and More

Smart Meetings

He joined VisitScotland Business Events in 2008 and has served as head of business events for the past 14 years. Neil Brownlee Neil Brownlee, PCMA Brownlee, the head of business events at VisitScotland , has been inaugurated as the 2025 chair of PCMA.

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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

You had an event management agency during the 2008 crisis and lost 50% of your business in one week. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009.

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Following California’s Reopening, Visit Anaheim Confirms 55 Events in 2021

Smart Meetings

Some of the booked events include VidCon , Specialty Advertising Association of California, Evolution of Psychotherapy and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Anaheim, USA – July 29, 2008: people visit disneyland and walk over commemorative bricks with names in terracotta in Anaheim, USA.

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Get to Know ME with Allison Stewart

Motivation Excellence

I was able to go on a 5-month study abroad program to Newcastle, Australia in 2008. Traveling, spending time with friends, family and my two cats, exercising, trying new foods or restaurants, cooking or baking, reading or listening to audio books, doing yard work or being outside if possible, and I love hiking.

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Diversity In Events 2021 With William S. Matthews

Endless Events

Matthews , a connector, corporate event planner, and author of three best-selling books, including Everything I Need to Know about Life I Learned from an Event Planner. In his newest book, Corporate America , he writes about the ins and outs of the corporate world as well as race relations and diversity. And that’s great!

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Meeting Profs Travel Report: Air Travel Chaos Looms, Japan Lifts Covid Controls

Smart Meetings

Try not to book flyers on tight turnarounds at connecting airports, especially in the middle of the country in the middle of summer storm seasons. Up 9% by both projects and rooms year-over-year (YOY); project totals at Q1 ‘23 are just 338 projects, or 5.7%, behind the all-time high of 5,883 projects recorded in Q2 2008.

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Bye bye group bookings? Marriott cuts strategic meetings and corporate travel commissions in North America

Travel Daily Media

The post Bye bye group bookings? The announcement states Marriott will cut commission rates to all group bookings made in its US and Canadian properties from 10% to 7% starting on 31 March. The post Bye bye group bookings? ” Marriott’s Nashville Meeting Space.

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