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Business Events Industry Focus Is Shifting Back to the Future

Smart Meetings

Baltimore, for example, successfully welcomed the CIAA Tournament in February of this year and saw numbers that exceeded their 2019 championship day numbers by nearly 4,000 people. Though these events are major and in the public eye on a national scale, they are not the only successes taking place. Not All Audiences Are the Same.

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Summer Is Over & COVID-19 Is Back: Now What?

Endless Events

COVID-19 cases are rising, rules and regulations around COVID-19 compliance for events are changing every month, and now, in-person events are getting canceled left and right all over again. “If I’m an organization that’s trying to produce an event, I don’t think I’m going to do it this year.

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Rebranded PCMA Embraced World Stage at Convening Leaders Conference

Smart Meetings

This will get event organizers off the hamster wheel. Houston on Purpose Gwen Stefani at Daikin Park PCMA has been trying to bring the event to Houston since 2019, but unexpected challenges, including a global pandemic, required alternatives.

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CDC Will Allow Cruise Travel to Resume This Summer   

Smart Meetings

Cruise line representatives cited the vaccination requirement as part of a multi-pronged approach to keeping crew and passengers safe, in addition to implementing CDC regulations, requiring negative testing before boarding and adhering to reduced capacity and social distancing guidelines.

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TWT: Travel Still Flocks to Florida

Smart Meetings

higher than in Q1 2019, continuing a trend of three consecutive quarters in which visitation rates exceeded pre-Covid levels. during Q1 2022 compared to Q1 2021 and were down from Q1 2019 by 5.5%. Covid (2019) levels for the first time since the onset of the pandemic in Q1 2020. increase over Q1 2021. Visitation was 1.4%

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Industry Mourns Passing of Chris Wehking

Convene by PCMA

Wehking was PCMA’s 2014 Chairman of the Board of Directors and a 2019 PCMA Foundation Lifetime Achievement Honoree. “I As an executive in the medical meetings sector, Chris also helped PCMA remain in the forefront of medical events, sharing his knowledge of the latest regulations and codes that have had an impact on those events.”.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE Blog

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). In 2019 the ITB MICE Forum theme was ‘The Human Factor’. ethics of artificial intelligence (AI)). It should have an impact so that people want to do something about it.

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