Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly important as the travel and tourism industries are surging into 2023. Smart Meetings has collected our best CSR stories of 2022 to inspire and encourage continued efforts towards good causes. Starting IPW 2022 with a Green Bang: Tourism Cares Pledges $10,000 to IDEAS for Us.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2025

Brand USA, a public-private partnership focused on increasing international travel, reported that in 2026, the U.S. is on track to welcome 90 million visitors one year ahead of the goal outlined by the National Travel and Tourism Strategy report. Thats up 40% from 2022, but still about 15% below 2019 levels. In Washington, D.C.,

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Smart Meetings

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. Her work has contributed to several industry awards, including the Most Profitable Business Award and the Creative Business Award in 2022 and the Event Space Award in 2023.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From safe places to travel in 2022 to a look at the larger problem surrounding the Salman Rushdie incident, here are Smart Meetings’ top security stories from 2022. 10 Safest Places to Travel in 2022. 6 Ways to Practice Cybersecurity While Traveling.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

Rising prices for business travelers are predicted to continue in 2022 and through 2023, according to a report, “ 2023 Global Business Travel Forecast ,” by travel management platform CWT and Global Business Travel Association. Overall, the global economy is expected to grow 3% in 2022 and 2.8%

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

Ferguson came together at Union Market for its annual Travel Rally, held during U.S. Travel Association’s National Travel and Tourism Week—which happened this past week—where they discussed the region’s forecast and data from 2021. Travel, overseas visitation will likely not reach 2019 levels until 2025. In 2022, D.C.

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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

JUNE 20, 2022

Destinations International (DI) has announced its 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees and Destination Organization Leadership Award recipients. DI’s Hall of Fame was created and designed to recognize those who’ve positively changed destination and travel marketing and management, made significant contributions to the industry.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

IMEX 2022 concluded its 11 th American run Thursday following a thunderous return with over 12,000 people in attendance at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, a 45% increase over last year’s event due to pandemic travel restrictions. — JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 13, 2022. meetsmart pic.twitter.com/xY7qsyppLz.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Read More: You Should Go Here: 3 Travel Trends to Woo Attendees Bringing Your Attendees to Refract Seattle Another, more involved option, is to directly plan offsites. Dale Chihuly, Persian Ceiling and Rondel Doors, 1999, The Boathouse, Seattle, 2022 © Chihuly Studio.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In one of the biggest travel stories of the week, Denver has announced that the city’s face covering order will expire on Thursday, Feb. Read More Travel News. “We No More Testing Requirements for Vaccinated Passengers Traveling to the US, Pleads Airline Industry. Travel Consumers Are Still Wary Says Survey. A4A and U.S.

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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. Read More : Q2 Earnings Indicate a Business Travel Surge and Strong Leisure Trend.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Travel Association , after having close ties in meeting production over the years. This move aims to “[provide] greater value to coalition members as business travel and professional meetings and events rebuild from steep pandemic-related losses,” a press release reads. Travel, this move will further aid the industry’s recovery.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

MAY 15, 2023

2023 is shaping up to be a great year for travel. Travel foundation predicts an increase in spending compared to 2022, and even when compared to levels in 2019. Travel foundation predicts an increase in spending compared to 2022, and even when compared to levels in 2019.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Event planners are already preparing to bring the best to 2022. Here are some of the biggest events to come in 2022. 2022 Annual Convention. A seeming ages away, Smart Meetings has another three-day event for the month of November 2022 in the works. Flashpoint: Sparking Haute Ideas. Convention Sales & Services Summit.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll Always Have Paris…Until Beijing Takes Over A new study from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) shows Paris is the world’s most powerful “city destination” with almost $36 billion USD in 2022 in terms of direct GDP contribution to the city, but it also reveals that Paris will cede its place to up-and-coming Beijing by 2032.

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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).

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

IMEX America Moves Toward a Sustainable Events Future IMEX America 2022 was the greenest one yet. Counting the Sustainable Event Measures IMEX America 2022 , which took place Oct. Long-range plans include offsetting air travel impacts and increasing renewable energy at Mandalay Bay Convention Center to 100%.

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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

JUNE 30, 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. sent a letter to Secretary Buttigieg with demands that meetings and travel planners dealing with participants missing days at events because of flight snafus might applaud.

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ETC Corporate

APRIL 13, 2023

About 72% of Europeans intend to travel between April and September this year. Leisure remains the primary reason for travel (69%), though the drop of 7% over 2022 suggests a potential slowdown in the post-pandemic ‘revenge’ travel. Rising travel costs due to inflation, the ongoing war in.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

As travelers post “OOO” on their cell phones and head out to vacation time this long Memorial Day weekend, lower fares but full flights are indicative of some trends that may continue this summer. However, 2023 is predicted to be the most expensive for international travel in more than five years with fares to Europe up over 50% from 2022.

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Smart Meetings

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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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Travel Association Says Airlines in the United States Are Sub-Par In a new quarterly press conference launched today , the U.S. Travel President and CEO, Geoff Freeman. Travel National Chair and Hilton President and CEO Chris Nassetta. Freeman was joined on the presentation by incoming U.S. Other issues that U.S.

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ETC Corporate

MAY 11, 2022

Domestic travel is projected to make a complete recovery in 2022, while international arrivals to Europe are forecast to be 30% below 2019 volumes Western Europe is expected to be the best performing region globally this year, albeit 24% below 2019 levels Due to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, Eastern Europe’s recovery has been pushed back to 2025 (..)

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 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. AmEx Global Travel Financials Show Strong Business Travel Recovery. airlines” shows that in the second quarter of 2022, “the demand for business travel is very strong.”.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JUNE 25, 2024

When the data speaks loud and clear, no crystal ball is needed to predict short term travel trends. All indicators point to a busy summer and fall 2024, as any concerns about traffic jams, air travel headaches, or overcrowding doesn’t seem to be detering Americans from enjoying their vacations. airports.

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ETC Corporate

MAY 25, 2022

Intention for long-haul travel remains weak in key markets amid worsening economic prospects, COVID-19 and geopolitical shocks Brazil is the only market where the travel sentiment increased significantly compared to a year ago COVID-19 concerns and high travel-related costs are the main deterrents to long-haul travel in summer 2022 According to the (..)

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Smart Meetings

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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ETC Corporate

JUNE 16, 2022

Inflation and rising travel costs have become the leading concern among holidaymakers across Europe 73% of Europeans are planning to embark on a holiday between June and November 2022 38% of respondents plan on travelling twice, while 20% plan on taking more than three trips Travel sentiment among Europeans remains strong, with 73% planning to embark (..)

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

People are happy getting back to reclaim their life and their joy and people are traveling. Travel is something people are prioritizing. While these drawbacks have not yet put a dent in leisure travel demand, if this trend continues, travelers will reach a breaking point and some airline brands may be damaged.”

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ETC Corporate

APRIL 12, 2022

Despite the pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, European travel sentiment reaches a peak – 77% have travel plans between April and September 2022 Over half (56%) of Europeans planning a trip intend to visit another European country 38% of travel-ready Europeans plan to take an overnight trip between June-July, and another 32% are targeting (..)

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Dana Communications

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Because here we stand, well into 2022, still contending with continued uncertainty and conditions like major workforce changes. Read on below to determine how these current challenges are manifesting the future of incentive travel. …and heeding the top incentive travel trends. Not so much…at least, not yet.

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Dana Communications

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The great travel recovery is here. As we all flipped the calendar to 2021, industry pundits were already forecasting when travel would return to pre-2020 levels. Travel Takes Flight The U.S. We recommend fully leaning into the travel upswing. The post The great travel recovery is here. The good news from the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In one of the biggest travel stories of the week, Denver has announced that the city’s face covering order will expire on Thursday, Feb. Read More Travel News. “We No More Testing Requirements for Vaccinated Passengers Traveling to the US, Pleads Airline Industry. Travel Consumers Are Still Wary Says Survey. A4A and U.S.

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APRIL 8, 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. The war in Ukraine broke out just as global travel and meetings were seeing advances in reopening, adding a new layer of complexity to international planning. Traveler Concerns.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The two companies will integrate their software platforms to create an array of products to fit the needs of technology, financial services, travel , hospitality, health services and association clients. The post MeetingPlay and Aventri Merge as First Big Event Tech Deal of 2022 appeared first on Smart Meetings. Combined Solution Set.

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