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5 Meeting Industry Trends That Are Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

As a demographic, they also: Value experiences over material goods Want to share those experiences usually via social media Have higher technological literacy Are 62% more likely to travel than their generation X counterparts As the average screen time per day increases, millennials place more value on face-to-face meetings. .”

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5 Ways the Meetings Industry is Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

As a demographic, they also value experiences over material goods, want to share those experiences (usually via social media), have higher technological literacy, and are 62% more likely to travel then their generation X counterparts. Technology is allowing planners to pull off more than ever before. So what’s a planner to do?

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Which meeting design books should I buy?

Conferences that Work

Unlike older books, it covers the impact of digital technology (apps, online meetings, and social media marketing) on the meetings world, includes a healthy dollop of the relevance of learning theory to meeting design, and manages to squeeze in trade shows, accessibility, and wellness in a fairly short book.

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AIME Marks A 30-Year Milestone At The Opening

Travel Daily Media

Just as the Australian Open is the first tennis grand slam of the year, AIME is the first international trade show of the business events sector and now the top business events trade show in the Asia-Pacific region. It is the 30th anniversary. ” The Hon.

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The New Economic Significance Study: Making Sense of the Numbers

MeetingsNet

The newest study from Oxford Economics on the economic significance of the meetings industry is out, illustrating the size and impact of meetings, conferences, incentive travel programs, and trade shows. First the new numbers…. In the U.S. in 2016, there were: • 1.9 million meetings • 251 million meeting participants. For the U.S.

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How tennis and tenacity helped to build the MICE industry’s biggest global player

Travel Daily Media

In year one we did 200,000 dollars in bookings; in year two (2009) we did seven million, and in year three, 14 million. ’ The hospitality sector needs to do a more aggressive job of embracing technology. Cutting-edge technology will make life 100 times more painless for the attendees.

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Navigating International Attendance Challenges in 2025’s Political Climate

Smart Meetings

When policies close doors, technology opens windows In a beautiful garden under the soft Portland sun in 2009, I stood in my wedding dress, exchanging vows with my soon-to-be husband. What should have been a devastating blow became instead our first lesson in technological inclusion. Our solution then feels eerily prescient now.