Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And almost a third were new since 2021. Note to #meetingprofs : You have to experience the @encore @EncoreGlobal_ experience to spark your excitement about the possibilities for immersing your attendees in multi-sensory journies. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Brew Crew is continuing its summer trend of reviewing the industry events! “Nick, you mentioned during the MPI 2021 episode that you wouldn’t classify it as a hybrid event. While Thuy couldn’t stop raving about the walking challenge at PCMA Educon 2021 , she was disappointed with TSE + Catersource.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Leaders and participants talk strategy for attendee engagement, flexibility and collaboration, successful, trust-eliciting Covid protocol and some of the best platforms for event management. The post Best of 2021: Resources for Meeting Professionals appeared first on Smart Meetings. Top 10 Apps for Meeting Professionals.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. If you, your staff, or attendees are experiencing depression, anxiety or other strong emotions, professional help is available and worthwhile. The post Meeting Safety Trends in 2022 appeared first on Smart Meetings. Don’t lose sight of this.

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Endless Events

MARCH 23, 2021

Today, it’s time for something different, but just as relevant: we will talk about diversity in events as of 2021. ” “You definitely hit on two of the things that we’re talking about in our 2021 trends guide : personalization and the hybrid portion of bringing people together safely ,” agrees Sarah.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 27, 2021

Free Planning Tools Diagram events, wow attendees, and win clients with free planning tools. While 2021 may still look a little different than normal, expect to see many conferences back and ready to help industry professionals navigate the massive changes in the way they do business.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

The second part of Events Reimagined by Hubilo focused on presenting key virtual and hybrid event trends that we’ll see more of going forward and shared advice on how best to adapt. . What will the attendee experience require of events in 2022 and beyond? . What trends do you see growing and going away for the future of events?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Understanding the Impact of Travel on Attendees. We can and should be doing more to support meeting professionals with disabilities, especially when our meeting spaces fail to be accessible to every present, or would-be present, attendee. These tips and takeaways from over the receding year help ease traveling for work.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It doesn’t matter if team members are ambassadors on the front line helping attendees, or backroom and support making operations work behind the scenes. Javits Convention Center, on the other hand, will add up to a million square feet of space by 2021. Tech Trends for Your Next Trade Show. New York’s Jacob K.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

Travel Association’s National Travel and Tourism Week—which happened this past week—where they discussed the region’s forecast and data from 2021. Department of Commerce found that in 2021, D.C.’s Cincinnati has not yet reached 2019 levels, but its visitation is trending positively. s domestic visitation was 18.8 Much like D.C.,

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ITA Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

2021 Event Catering Trends. Above: Attendees try self-serve sous vide food station. Most major events have been postponed or cancelled through the spring of 2021, which is why thoughtful contemplation about the future of our industry will not only help us cope, it will also give us the opportunity to help shape the next normal.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 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. rates of infection and hospitalization are also an underreported but important trend. Read More : What You Don’t Know About the Future of Attendee Safety Could Put You at Risk.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 18, 2021

One of the biggest trends event profs can expect for 2021 pertains to expectations. While attendees were a lot more forgiving last year, as we all learned the ropes of virtual events, the same can’t be expected today. LED walls are just an example of how we can keep this trend going.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For a preview, we asked Eric Holmen, CEO of Splash , the event marketing software company that powers tens of thousands of business events each month, for trends in how organizers are adjusting their programs. Spoiler alert, it could be smaller, more tech driven and hybrid , but not in the way many expected at the beginning of the year.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“Everyone has a dog now,” Jenn Glynn, managing partner with Meeting Encore , stated this week in a conversation with Philip Eidsvold, vice president of strategic alliances at One10 , about the changing demands of attracting attendees to in-person incentive trips. Listen to the whole Incentive Trends conversation on demand.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2020

Some of the primary upcoming concerns for event organizers will include re-organizing events with the limited timescale, adhering to strict safety guidelines to protect their guests and attendees, and discover solutions that potentially curb the spread of the virus. Will we adapt to a new way of marketing and communications? But it won’t be.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Make sure that you’re up to date on this year’s Virtual Event Trends. Virtual concert series like these might be a common trend that we see more often, especially as artists delay, postpone, and reschedule their tours. CES 2021 Is Going Virtual! How It’s Done: Tomorrowland 2020: The Virtual Event of The Year?

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

It seems that the asynchronous communication trend has also started making waves in the meeting and events industry , namely as asynchronous hybrid events. As discussed in our 2022 Event Trends Guide , hybrid events are not simply in-person and virtual events put together. A great asynchronous hybrid event case study is IBTM 2021.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 10, 2022

It’s all about bringing the event to more of your attendees, to those who are unable or unwilling to travel. If I wrote my event trends guide in like November, I would not have guessed that CES would not have happened this year, for example.” Your attendees are now playing a role in the story rather than just watching it.”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“Everyone has a dog now,” Jenn Glynn, managing partner with Meeting Encore, stated this week in a conversation with Philip Eidsvold, vice president of strategic alliances at One10, about the changing demands of attracting attendees to in-person incentive trips. Listen to the whole Incentive Trends conversation on demand.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If you’ve been paying attention to the event trends set to redefine the industry, you’ll know that hybrid is up there with the most relevant. In fact, according to our State of The Industry Survey , 64% of planners believe hybrid events will be the most common experiences in 2021. What’s Happening Across The World.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2021

As event planners, we’ve always taken responsibility for the safety and security of our attendees while they were in our care. Read about the 25 Hospitality Trends waiting for meeting profs on the other side of the pandemic. . — Jennifer Cox (@jicox) June 1, 2021. — Anh Nguyen, CMP (@atnguyen) June 1, 2021.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

This is great news for event marketers and planners who can plan experiential events – events that aim to evoke positive emotions in attendees and resonate with their values. After all, what makes an incredible event is not the stage and the logistics, but the atmosphere and the positive emotional state of the attendees.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 19, 2021

While it’s important to emphasize that no event is risk-free, event planners can implement many safety processes that ensure the safety of their attendees, exhibitors, and staff. It’s important for the attendees to follow the guidelines outside the venue as well – be it in airplanes or hotels. Take it outdoors.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 9, 2021

Let’s discuss how you can write the perfect invitation email for your virtual event to drive more registrations in 2021. In fact, Small Business Trends , estimates that almost half, 47 percent of recipients, judge whether to open the email based on the subject line alone. Make it Easy for Attendees to Check-In/Out.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the first big conventions to return anywhere in the world after the Covid pause was Informa Market’s World of Concrete show in June 2021 at the expanded Las Vegas Convention Center. in the still shiny space to learn about new equipment, techniques and trends from more than 1,100 vendors. The show took over 632,000 sq.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

From missions and challenges to competitions, there are many ways to make your attendees feel truly immersed in the experience. Therefore, event gamification incentivizes your attendees to become active participants by adding game-like features to your event. Promote Attendee Communication With Icebreakers.

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Social Tables

APRIL 1, 2022

With in-person events slowly returning, event planners and caterers alike would be wise to try and make the attendee F&B experience better than ever. Being so, we’ve put together this list of catering trends to help you hone in on what matters to audiences now. Are there new trends emerging? Trending ingredients will reign.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

From choosing the right platform to delivering the best virtual content , we always first need to think about what kind of an experience we are providing for our virtual attendees. The rest of them were basically DJs where the attendees could chat directly with our DJ and request a song. ” Experiential Virtual Events In 2021.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Taking care of the health of the attendees is a growing trend in the events industry – and we’re not just talking about COVID-19 compliance at events. PCMA EduCon 2021 , for example, hosted a gamified health challenge and encouraged attendees to move their bodies. I look at who the attendees are.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Cost-per-attendee in 2022 is expected to increase by roughly 25%, as compared to 2019. decrease in 2021. Two years later and prices are reflecting an upward trend. to $435 in 2021. and rose in 2021 by 5.1%, the only sector to see an increase in 2021. Increase in Meeting Spend. Increase in Hotel Stay Pricing.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 13, 2022

According to a 2021 study by the Federal Reserve, the average Black, Hispanic and Latino households own up to 85% less net wealth than their white counterparts. An upward trend started in 2021 with 229 million travelers, a number that will only increase. Read More: Marriott International to Open First Luxury Safari Lodge .

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

One lesson learned from both Frankfurt 2022 and America in 2021 was that people want more focused learning tracks. The research area focused on trends was also popular. On the heels of MPI speakers talking about the power of listening, Bauer was pretty sure they had hooked into a trend of what people are craving right now.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Attendees today are hungry for captivating events and are open to experiencing them in new ways. According to Forrester’s Q3 2021 B2B Enterprise Marketing Events Trends Survey , “Hybrid events will become the dominant form of events in 2022 and beyond.” Recent data shows that virtual is proving to be an enduring event trend.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You should watch our Virtual Event/Life Balance webinar to find out how to achieve attendee bliss! So much so that I purchased festival tickets to Outside Lands 2021 the day they came out. This online medium also allowed Another Planet to give away tickets to OSL 2021 to people who were attending virtually and active in the chat.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2021

As part of this increase in business, he has seen a new trend: “Meetings aren’t always about the ‘meeting’ anymore.” We’re seeing Fall 2021 continue to be the focus for the return of groups, ranging from small gatherings to potential buyout bookings. Formats have evolved to include an emphasis on reconnection time.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Attendees want engaging content—and they want it now! Summary: Are Your Attendees Engaged? Two medical meeting professionals share their experiences and the lessons they’ve learned planning events around considerations such as changing CDC protocols, managing attendee comfort levels and rules for medical programming.

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