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10 Smart Strategies For Planning Sustainable Events

Endless Events

There was a 71% increase in online searches for sustainable goods — plus, public concern for the environment has grown by 16% since 2017. Instead of booking one colossal event annually, that draws thousands of people, adopt a satellite sustainable event model. Sustainability is a hot-button issue for consumers around the globe.

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IHG Hotels & Resorts Celebrates 6,000-Hotel Milestone with Revamped Rewards Program

Smart Meetings

Since 2017, it has acquired or launched six brands to add to its portfolio. With the new mobile app, patrons can look at their points, make bookings on the go and check in online. With the massive milestone of 6,000 hotels, booking events and traveling with IHG looks more attractive than ever. The Road to 6,000.

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Which meeting design books should I buy?

Conferences that Work

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. In an outrageous display of chutzpah , I wrote three of these books. [If In 2013, Eric de Groot and Mike van de Vijver published this unique, extraordinary, and important book on meeting design. The story is told in the book’s preface.)

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Creative Methods to Generate More Revenue for Your Next Conference

Smart Meetings

Also, 83% of exhibitors have purchased at least one sponsorship from 2017-19. Provide an all-inclusive online shopping cart experience. “Members tend to walk right by them,” stated Corporate Partnership and Sponsorship Consultant Bruce Rosenthal. Use organic and paid digital marketing tactics. Optimize each for SEO.

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DMA West: Going Viral, What’s Trending and Crisis Communication

Smart Meetings

A post shared by Oinkari Basque Dancers (@oinkariboise) on Jul 29, 2017 at 3:19pm PDT. Wellness trips are up 200 percent as compared to 2017. 80 percent of consumers want to book with minimal human involvement. Social media, they agreed, is best used to advise and update online visitors immediately after a crisis.

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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

In 2000, I decided to found a company, something that will change the industry, and I established the first marketplace to organise events online. At that time, it was 2017, and I knew that the best you can do is to start moving as soon as possible. You have a new book coming out. Can you speak about your new book?

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Railway Reservation System: How to Drive Online Train Bookings

AltexSoft Travel

Visit some of the largest online travel agencies such as Expedia or Booking.com that dominate travel distribution on the web and you won’t find rail reservations there. Airline technology, for example, spawned from one first booking system — Sabre. Online travel agencies. Train booking engine. Lack of customer data.