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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

European Travel Is Rebounding Says New Study The European Travel Commission (ETC) has released a new study that says European destinations are “on their way to recovering pre-pandemic tourist arrivals.” Experts anticipate a gradual return of Chinese travelers to Europe from the second quarter of 2023, as significant barriers remain.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The year 2019 is almost upon us. How will the events industry fare this year, and what trends will rule the roost when it comes to event planners’ priorities? 2019 Event Trends: Your Audience Craves Authenticity. Bleisure Travel Becomes The New Norm. This is no longer going to fly this 2019. Saving on WiFi Costs.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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JANUARY 18, 2019

A decade after the 2008 recession, the industry appears to be stable, with steady growth on the horizon according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events (M&E), a division of American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). percent increase in demand expected in 2019. Respondents expect 1.08

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2023

fewer flights than in 2019 and 0.9% The report, sponsored by Visa and researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analyzed key indicators such as Travel & Tourism’s contribution to GDP, employment and traveler spend. “We believe that the industry’s capacity aspirations for 2023 and beyond are simply unachievable.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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JANUARY 10, 2025

Megan Conway Megan Conway, Travel Portland Travel Portland has named Conway as president and CEO, promoting her from her earlier role as chief strategy officer. Throughout his career, Patino has worked with leading hotel brands and travel organizations, including the U.S. Regis Bali and AMAN.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Privacy has become the top necessity for event planners, according to a new report from Benchmark Resorts & Hotels. The global hospitality company released its “ Top 10 Meeting Trends for 2019 ” report based on insights gleaned from interactions with event professionals all over the world. “We Make it Fast, Reliable and Safe.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2022

Meeting profs in Charlotte, North Carolina, are meeting at the newly expanded Charlotte Convention Center for lunch, accompanied by a speech by the state’s House Budget Writer Jason Saine and the North Carolina Travel Industry Association lobbying team. The post How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Partnering with agencies can reduce cost and save time In many scenarios, planners have limited resources on hand. That often means seeking out third-party agencies and independent planners to attain their goals and create a stellar event. According to Crosby this amounts to 20-30% of what a planner could have spent.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

International travel grew gradually in 2021 after the quarantine of 2019, yet 2022 has seen a huge spike. With more countries opening their borders and lifting Covid restrictions, 2022 international travel has increased exponentially since 2019 and progressing towards pre-pandemic numbers.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

From ballrooms with windows galore in Sin City to a sky-high observation deck in Manhattan, there are hotels and attractions around the country to scratch the new year’s traveling itch. Las Vegas Every planner knows Las Vegas is one of the top destinations for meetings in the country. The post 2019’s Top U.S.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

At ADMEI 2019, the annual gathering of DMCs from around the world, four people who lived through worst-case scenarios in Houston, Puerto Rico, New Orleans and Las Vegas described their experiences—and the lessons learned. Related : ADMEI to Focus on International Impact in 2019. Strangers Stepped Up. Hospitality Strong Won Day.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. Whether it’s asking on a delegate invitation pathway, “How are you traveling to an event?”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2021

Crowd control is going to be on meeting planners’ minds in the first few months of the post-pandemic era, and there’s no better model for how to herd the hordes than the Walt Disney Company. What should planners expect in terms of how their meetings will be different from how they were before COVID?

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JUNE 23, 2022

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. Travel Forecast Sees Wobbly Recovery. Travel estimates that $1.05 The forecast projects that domestic business travel volume will reach 81% of pre-pandemic levels in 2022 and 96% in 2023.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2022

Hilton and Marriott’s statistics are looking up after revenue per available room (RevPAR) met or exceeded 2019 levels. Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta attributes the growth of business travel, as “bookings for company meetings strengthened each month of the quarter.” Systemwide, it was 14% above 2019 Q2 weekend levels. billion, 69.5%

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The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

An extensive renovation that started in 2019 introduced the innovative dual-brand concept. Guests don’t hear airplanes taking off or landing, allowing them to enjoy a quiet, restful stay and be ready for travel the next day.’ Both properties provide spaciousness and modern amenities, catering to both leisure and business travellers.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We’ve all found ourselves adapting to a new world and a new travel industry, especially travel planners,” said Glynn who is outgoing president of SITE Global, the association for incentive planners. Guest safety has become a focal aspect of incentive travel planning. Costs are changing and budgets must follow suit.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

If you are an event or meeting planner you’ve heard of PSAV. This month on January 14th, 2019, PSAV published a press release announcing the purchase agreement for PSAV to acquire Encore Event Technologies. The news makes for shaky ground and uncertainty for meeting and event planners nationwide. January 2019.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We’ve all found ourselves adapting to a new world and a new travel industry, especially travel planners,” said Glynn who is outgoing president of SITE Global , the association for incentive planners. In each section, Glynn and Eidsvold offer analytical observations: Incentive travel is returning, however slowly.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“We have not been [here] before,” said MGM senior vice president of MGM Resorts International Mike Dominguez, in a recent Smart Meetings webinar , referring to the state of the hotel industry going into 2019. Demand from individual travelers has grown even faster than bookings from groups. percent in the United States. “We

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Planners are going paperless in increasing numbers according to a new study by American Express Meetings & Events (M&E). The 2019 Global Meetings and Events Forecast found that North American planners predict an almost three percent increase in app usage in 2019. Related : 6 Helpful Travel Apps Worth Downloading.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Plus strategies for managing increased business travel costs in 2024 Business travel and event cost are not increasing as steeply as they were in 2022, but they’re still going up, according to 2024 Business Travel Forecast , a new study by CWT and Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). In 2022, air travel saw a 72.2%

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Since June, however, borders that had closed in March of last year have begun to open back up for business travel. In the meantime, many destinations have been readying, renovating and innovating to prepare for the return of tourism and group travel. Canada’s borders reopened to vaccinated international travelers in August.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Countries are reopening, and meeting planners are doing the same. The group reports that the jump occurred as governments announce more relaxation of Covid restrictions: 18 markets (comprising about 20% of 2019 demand) are open to vaccinated travelers without quarantine or pre-departure testing requirements. cities do the same.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. ride for most travelers. Meeting Planners’ Takeaway: United’s hub is at Newark, which is easily accessible to the entire New York City metro area. United Threatens to Pull Out of JFK.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. ride for most travelers. Meeting Planners’ Takeaway: United’s hub is at Newark, which is easily accessible to the entire New York City metro area. United Threatens to Pull Out of JFK.

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