Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The 2022 Annual Meeting & Exposition agenda covered the current disruptions of sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, and workforce challenges with an eye toward finding new solutions using new association business models. I love traveling,” she said, reflecting on the miles booked on the road over the last year. “I

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

2022 on the island of Oahu in particular is looking to be a year replete with music, entertainment and—of course—food. Hawaii Book and Music Festival , Fall 2022. Volunteer Week Hawaii 2022 , April 17-23. Hawaiian Airlines May Day 2022 , May 1. 2022 Korean Festival , Summer 2022. Music Festivals.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 28, 2021

Who’s Booking : Hyatt is seeing a huge increase in leads from third-party RFP platforms like Cvent, and site selection companies like HelmsBriscoe. What They’re Booking : Small meetings and local events are coming back first, followed by regional and then national events. San Francisco and Chicago. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2022

American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA)’s 2022 State of the Hotel Industry Report sees the hotel industry moving toward recovery “but the path will be uneven and potentially volatile, and full recovery is still several years away.” Read More: 2022 Meetings Industry Indicators . Motto by Hilton New York City Chelsea.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Global DMC Partners (GDP), the network of independent destination management companies and event service providers, has recently unveiled its 2022 Global Destination Index , which highlights the most popular meeting and incentive destinations around the world, according to booked and pending business across its worldwide partners.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The first six months of 2022 were a busy time for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, as Dubai Business Events (DBE), Dubai’s convention bureau, as the two destinations collaborated to procure 99 event bookings over the coming years. Dubai’s ability to book this number of events are credited to the success of the country’s Expo 2020.

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Hotel Engine

JULY 18, 2022

Fastest-growing hotel booking platform for business sees significant increase in membership; focus on product enhancement and innovations drives new business. The significant growth builds on the company’s Q1 2022 momentum, which also saw triple-digit growth. Triple-digit growth across the board. More than 143,000 individual members.

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Dana Communications

JANUARY 17, 2022

in 2020, wellness tourism will multiply an impressive 21% annually through 2025, reflecting “new traveler values (a quest for nature, sustainability in travel, mental wellness) as well as a period of rapid recovery from pent-up demand in 2021 and 2022.”. First, let’s note that wellness itself is one of the key travel trends for 2022.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Smart Meetings has collected a list of advocacy stories from 2022 and we are all excited to see even more in the new year. Smart Meetings sat down for a chat with Megan Henshall, a 2022 Smart Women in Meetings Visionary Award Winner, to discuss neurodiversity in the events industry and what professionals can do to accommodate the issue.

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Meeting Package

JANUARY 12, 2022

We’re excited to announce that MeetingPackage has ranked #1 overall on Hotel Tech Report’s Global Best Online Venue Booking Platform list in the 2022 HotelTechAwards. This was second year in a row that MeetingPackage was voted as the best software to book and manage Meetings & Events services.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What began as podcast series True Spies , which debuted in 2020, and later, as a planned introduction of Spycon (postponed until 2022), a convention designed to bring these experts together with Hollywood and Silicon Valley, has shapeshifted into a venture meeting professionals will love.

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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. Why the Rapid Growth in International Travel?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The 2022 Annual Meeting & Exposition agenda covered the current disruptions of sustainability; diversity, equity and inclusion; and workforce challenges with an eye toward finding new solutions using new association business models. I love traveling,” she said, reflecting on the miles booked on the road over the last year. “I

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2022

American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA)’s 2022 State of the Hotel Industry Report sees the hotel industry moving toward recovery “but the path will be uneven and potentially volatile, and full recovery is still several years away.” Read More: 2022 Meetings Industry Indicators . Motto by Hilton New York City Chelsea.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The post Wedding season extended beyond ‘muhurat days’ in 2022 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Muhurat dates spike demand for wedding venues during the specific date and time, with families making bookings nearly one year in advance to ensure that they get the venue of their liking. This is a 1.7X

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The post GBTA: Bookings, spending and optimism on the upswing appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Global business travel is forecast to see an uptick in 2023 versus 2022. Three in four travel managers (78%) expect their company will take a lot more (22%) or more (55%) business trips in 2023 versus 2022.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The post 92% to use agents to book luxury trips in 2023 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. As per the research presented at ILTM ASIA PACIFIC 2022 opening forum, the future of this region has huge potential for luxury travel brands around the world. So ILTM is the key trade show for us in Asia”.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 10, 2023

DUBAI – Wego has emerged as the #1 travel app for flight search and booking in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region with a year-over-year (YOY) growth of over 157.7% Whether traveling for adventure, work, family, or other reasons, users can rely on Wego to provide them with a seamless booking experience.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

Here are event design ideas inspired by my visit to Art Basel 2022. Place books about the event subject at your event. That inspiration comes also from Design Miami where a collection of art and design-themed books were presented in front of the entrance to the event. Les Sièges des Mondes, 2022 exhibit by Alicja Kwade.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

2022 is going to be our best year yet; we’ve embraced exciting new event technology and hybrid events as the way of the future! The 22 Best Event Platforms To Use In 2022! A list of best event platforms to use in 2022 ! And even though we’re a reliable source, we advise you to never judge the book by its cover.

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 7, 2022

Booking influencer events can accelerate your promotions and bring in sales. One study, published in the Influencer Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , predicts growth in this industry to show an approximate annual intake of over $16 billion. TikTok and Instagram are two top performers in 2022.). Table of Contents. Conclusion.

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Leonardo

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s online booking landscape, hotels need to do everything they can to stand out. At the end of 2022, Google updated these long-standing guidelines to include experience as a key principle of their search algorithms. Experience: Real word expertise For many years, the acronym in question was just EAT.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What word or phrase will motivate you as we begin the first chapter of 2022? Looking ahead to 2022, the Convene editors share their Word of the Year as a way to mark the type of energy they want to bring into the new year and beyond. My one-word theme for 2022 is “light.” My word for 2022 is “gumption.” Barbara Palmer.

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Business Traveler USA

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Meeting planners expect face-to-face events to dominate 2022, with in-person gatherings accounting for approximately 80 percent of all meetings next year, according to a newly-released poll. The survey found nearly half of meeting planners (48 percent) expect to have the same number of events in 2022 as in 2019.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Opening day of the Global Business Travel Association’s annual meeting in Orlando last week saw the release of the GBTA/CTW 2022 Business-Travel Forecast. Here are four takeaways from the report that meeting organizers will want to factor into their planning process for 2022 events. • Image courtesy of GBTA ). •

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Cort

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This year they’ve chosen colors that you can incorporate into your next event, and here’s who you can give your event an up-to-the-moment look with 2022’s colors of the year. For 2022, Pantone has introduced a custom hue as their color of the year for the first time. Vib rant P eriwinkle (Very Peri by Pantone).

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JUNE 25, 2024

Labor Day and Beyond According to a travel survey by Deloitte , the busy 2024 travel season is extending into fall, with 17% of Americans planning post-Labor Day vacation trips in September, up from 12% in 2022. The post Strong Domestic Summer & Fall Travel Outlook for 2024 appeared first on Advance Travel and Tourism.

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The MICE Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

It also manages hotel bookings and side programmes for the various stakeholders. . The post SwissSkills Bern 2022 – Shaping the future for young people appeared first on The MICE Blog. Currently, the Bern Convention Bureau is responsible for organising activities that are not part of the main SwissSkills event. Sponsored post.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The post Wedding season extended beyond ‘muhurat days’ in 2022 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. Muhurat dates spike demand for wedding venues during the specific date and time, with families making bookings nearly one year in advance to ensure that they get the venue of their liking.

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Meeting Package

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As Scandic continues to see an increased demand for meetings, the company is today launching a fully digital booking service for meetings and conferences for up to 30 people on Scandic’s website.

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 1, 2022

The first half of 2022 was marked by massive growth for Hotel Engine. We’ve seen triple-digit expansion and more than doubled our bookings since 2021, but that’s not all. We’re on a constant quest for improvement, and all those new bookings have helped us better understand our opportunities to drive upgrades to the platform.

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Blue Spark Event Design

DECEMBER 5, 2022

If you are still feeling the pain of trying to move or rebook your events from 2020 and 2021 to 2022 and 2023, just wait until we get to 2024. This article reviews the seven reasons to book now for your 2024 event. 2022 was a stronger year and the industry began to recoup its losses. Book early to secure your event needs.

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Special Events

JANUARY 18, 2022

Event professionals are about to throw their name into the lottery for the chance to win the Catering Hunger Games.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Accor’s annual Global Meeting Exchange returned in 2022, held at the Fairmont San Francisco, at the top of one of the city’s famous hills. The remote working trend has changed hotel booking patterns, as travelers combine work and leisure, Freitag said. Thursday used to be the big check-out day at hotels. Now it’s the big check-in day.”

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The post Emirates flags a month-long busy travel period from late Nov to late Dec 2022 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Book and pay for the service at least 24 hours before the flight and passengers can proceed to the Airport check-in up to six hours before the flight departs.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The post Ticket booking opens for World Travel Market London as the show announces exciting changes appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. WTM Connect Me – the show’s meeting booking platform – will return in 2023 and is available for Buyers, VIPs and Media.

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Hotel Engine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2022, that meant more flexibility, more self-serve convenience and more support for the way we travel now, including the increasingly blurred lines between business and personal trips. Let’s take a look back over the feature updates we implemented over the second half of 2022.

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