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6 Tips for Keeping Attendees Tuned In During Your Online Events

Smart Meetings

While event organizers are getting good at planning in-person, hybrid and online events, booking the right speakers and keeping attendees engaged are still some of the biggest challenges. With online events especially, attendees can get distracted by looking at their phones or trying to multitask during presentations.

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ARVO Conference in Seattle Opened Eyes to Lingering International Travel Challenges

Smart Meetings

While the annual meeting focuses on sharing scientific abstracts in person, an online virtual education department covers education courses and a virtual professional development conference in the fall is where reporting on health outcomes is the centerpiece. Still, Cowan is booked in Canada two more times for future years.

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Here Are The 22 Best Event Platforms To Use In 2022!

Endless Events

And even though we’re a reliable source, we advise you to never judge the book by its cover. Building events since : 2016. Building events since : 2016. Building events since : 2016. One final disclaimer before we dive in: this is not sponsored content ; no event platform paid to be featured on this list.

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Direct Booking Success: How Hilton, Marriott, La Quinta, and More Hotels Boost Direct Sales

AltexSoft Travel

Hotels have been experiencing a surge of direct bookings during the pandemic. Yes, while the overall number of bookings dropped due to COVID-19, hotels’ brand.com websites became the third most popular booking channel , in some cases even surpassing Expedia traffic. Direct booking strategies for hotels. Why is that?

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2019 ASAE Preview: 8 Ways to Enjoy Columbus, Ohio

Smart Meetings

The organization announced this first-time host city all the way back in July 2016, for cryin’ out loud! They estimate that 20 percent of the nearly 6,000 attendees will book their own group’s convention there within five years. Smith of Franklinton Board of Trade in an online testimonial.

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Bedload Experts Meet in Interlaken for an International Symposium

The MICE Blog

A total of 174 people took part in the event, including 54 online. There were two reasons for choosing to host the symposium at the Lindner Grand Hotel Beau-Rivage in Interlaken: In 2016, Wasser Agenda 21 hosted a similar event in terms of duration and number of participants in Interlaken. Online event component. Event format.

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5 Steps to Perfect International Event Planning

Social Tables

If the destination is already chosen, then a good place to start might in the library or online with some cultural research. One of my favorite resource is Kiss, Bow, and Shake Hands , the book and online resource by Terri Morrison on how to do business around the world. Here are a few tips that you might find useful.