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Best of 2022: Event Security and Safety

Smart Meetings

Whether physical or cyber, events without ample security not only makes events less safe, they also make the possibility of creating personal and professional connections much less likely, as attendees spend more time worrying about their physical safety or their sensitive information being breached. 10 Safest Places to Travel in 2022.

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New Report: IMEX 2022 Reached Net Zero Carbon Events Goals

Smart Meetings

IMEX America Moves Toward a Sustainable Events Future IMEX America 2022 was the greenest one yet. A detailed report prepared by MeetGreen explained how the largest industry event made progress toward its Net Zero Carbon Events goal while pointing to even more improvements IMEX and other event organizers can make in the future.

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Brand USA Focus on MICE and Special Events Could Expand Annual Global Travel Beyond 90 Million in the Future

Smart Meetings

Thats up 40% from 2022, but still about 15% below 2019 levels. Read More: Todays Best Practices for Visas and International Travel To understand what the increased traffic through Global Entry means for the meeting professional community, we asked the two executives what the strategy is for growing worldwide travel. In Washington, D.C.,

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A Unique Meetings Consolidation Model Grows

Smart Meetings

The acquisition of IME Connect follows the merger of Miami-based A-Plus Meetings & Events and Utah-based Columbus Travel into M-Plus Global Events earlier in 2022. Newest Acquisition. Read More : Acquisition to Enhance Breakout Rooms Could be First Step Toward Zoomiverse. Partnership Benefits. The Future.

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SwissSkills Bern 2022 – Shaping the future for young people 

The MICE Blog

The experiential event format will showcase 150 professions and will allow attendees to engage directly with the employers and ask questions of current apprentices in the programmes. . The EuroSkills and WorldSkills events are two global events in which young people compete to showcase their skills and win gold medals for their countries.

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CES Leans into Hybrid Meeting Format in Uncertain Times

Smart Meetings

Sylvia Kindlain, account manager at ThinkInk Communications , believes that CES 2022 will be successful because of the number of precautions taken at the venue. More hybrid events to accommodate local in-person attendees and international virtual attendees, and overall smaller event formats.”. Safe Travels.

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Asia Is Opening Up to International Events—Slowly

Smart Meetings

While countries like Japan have expressed hesitance to reopening, others have opened up completely to visitors and business events of all kinds. State of Singaporean Events. PCMA Convening Leaders 2022, scheduled to take place Sept. In January of 2022, the signature event was held at CAESARS FORUM in Las Vegas.