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Why is DEI Critical to the Hospitality Industry?

Smart Meetings

A Toolkit for Action While DEI initiatives remain a struggle for some destinations, it is the hope of ESPA that the toolkit will be an asset for professional organizations in motivating staff to learn how DEI impacts the hospitality industry with the three pillars: education, inclusive marketing and supplier diversity.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Aaron Wolowiec, CMP Fellow

Smart Meetings

Or maybe we’ll have moved on to a new organization/event by then and miss our chance altogether. Becoming a CMP Wolowiec, founder and president of consulting firm Event Garde , earned his CMP in 2009. He is involved in ongoing work to train CMP candidates. Wolowiec says. “Or

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Meet in Europe

Smart Meetings

European Best Destinations —a travel website and organization that has partnered with over 400 tourism offices around Europe—ranked the top 20 “European Best Destinations” based on the votes of 686,244 travelers from 178 countries in 2023. Cittadella, Italy No.

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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. At least as an organizer you’ve put up a little bit of a barrier.”. As a conference organizer you may want to be more proactive than that. And what of low-proof and zero-proof options?

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Destination guide for sustainable venues in Stuttgart 

The MICE Blog

That includes adapting and anticipating changes in education, vocational training and research. Transport in Stuttgart Stuttgart has excellent connectivity, with an international airport, train routes to domestic and international cities. Since its reopening in September 2009, the venue has expanded its facilities.

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Phoenix, Just What the Doctor Ordered

MeetingsNet

The PBC’s 30-acre urban medical and bioscience campus boasts 6 million square feet of academic and clinical space, is home to more than a dozen research facilities and offers aesthetically striking classrooms and state-of-the-art laboratories for off-site meetings, special events and hands-on simulation training.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 2

Conferences that Work

Besides connecting people around their fundamental interests, The Three Questions is one of the best formats for discovering important topics, issues, and questions that were previously unknown to event organizers and a majority of the participants, as well as associated levels of interest. The Power of Participation [2015] (Chapter 31).

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