Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The return to in-person meetings has been trending over the last year. This is expected to continue well into 2023, according to a new report, “ 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast ,” by American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT). More Meetings. Greater Meeting Spend.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2023

Smart Woman Summit kicks off the next year for Smart Women in Meetings with empowerment and thoughtful conversations When leaders come together to tackle the biggest challenges in the hospitality meetings industry. One take-away for supervisors was the importance of “meeting employees where they’re at.” something magic happens.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Modernity and history entwined to welcome European meeting professionals The best ideas happen when diverse points of view come together. Megacity Opportunities As home to one of the original megacities, tourism is a growing part of the economy. million visitors to the country of 85 million people, a 9% increase from 2023.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Have an upcoming meeting in Ottawa? As always, Smart Travel is here to bring you the latest cant-miss news in tourism and travel. For meeting profs, this means more seamless access to competitive airfares, hotel accommodations and car rentalsall curated through Travelports AI-driven Content Curation Layer.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

So are the tourism ministers of the G7, who are meeting for the first time ever right now in Italy. Worried about whether Florida is prepared to host a meeting post-hurricane season? increase from the third quarter of 2023 and is the highest visitation for any third quarter in Florida history.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Modernity and history entwined to welcome European meeting professionals The best ideas happen when diverse points of view come together. Megacity Opportunities As home to one of the original megacities, tourism is a growing part of the economy. million visitors to the country of 85 million people, a 9% increase from 2023.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

So are the tourism ministers of the G7, who are meeting for the first time ever right now in Italy. Worried about whether Florida is prepared to host a meeting post-hurricane season? increase from the third quarter of 2023 and is the highest visitation for any third quarter in Florida history.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2025

Global meeting planners are exceeding expectations. is on track to welcome 90 million visitors one year ahead of the goal outlined by the National Travel and Tourism Strategy report. million in 2023. tourism ecosystem. Read More: Celebrate World Tourism Day What is the biggest challenge to growing incoming global travel?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Hoshino Resorts and Japan Airlines Team Up to Attract Tourists Japan Airlines and Hoshino Resorts have partnered to launch a new sustainable tourism campaign , “All-Time Favorite vs. Hidden Gems,” which aims to attract visitors to Japan’s less-trodden locales. Vincent and Grenadines, and Manila.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

How the meetings industry is celebrating #GMID2023 Destinations across the United States are showing just how much #meetingsmatter. This year marks the sixth annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), hosted by U.S. It’s so vital that it’s worth celebrating, read below see ways meeting profs are doing just that.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2022

West Virginia Department of Tourism Secretary Chelsea Ruby shared success stories from a targeted message to remote workers looking for an affordable, outdoorsy lifestyle. Global All-Star panel agreed that creative, intentional tourism management can be a source for good. JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) July 20, 2022. A Hospitable Spirit.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 24, 2025

In search of comfortable-yet-affordable accommodations for your next meeting or event? Planning a meeting in the UK or Ireland? As always, Smart Travel is here to bring you the latest must-read travel and tourism news. City Express by Marriott is gearing up to offer options in four new markets. just became easier.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 3 spot in 2023, after being No. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. Orlando, Florida 2.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

Following are some of the key findings of the 2023 study: Overall passenger satisfaction declines, driven largely by cost of airfare: Overall passenger satisfaction is 791 (on a 1,000-point scale), down 7 points from a year ago. The study was fielded from March 2022 through March 2023.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2023

We believe that the industry’s capacity aspirations for 2023 and beyond are simply unachievable. 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. United is downscaling to 16.7% fewer seats. .

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2025

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. Mauricio Patino Mauricio Patino, Velas Resorts Patino joins the team at Velas Resorts as regional sales director for meetings and incentives.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

A community of female leaders built on welcoming others emphasizes the power of belonging The announcement of the 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Award winners that went out Friday swelled the ranks of leaders honored to more than 1,000 strong. Hear what attendees said about the 2023 Smart Woman Summit. It is what Marin would have wanted.

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Dana Communications

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Techy Travel in 2023: What Resorts & Hotels Need to Know Have you noticed how much easier it is to travel nowadays? And check out the “10 Best Hospitality Apps for Your Guests in 2023” from Hotel Tech Report here ! The post Techy Travel in 2023: What Resorts & Hotels Need to Know appeared first on Dana Communications.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

6 tips for a smooth European event from an international DMC expert If it seems to you everyone is taking their incentive meeting to Europe this year, you are not alone. News & World Report highlighted the most popular European cities for 2023 and three of the top 10 were in Italy.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2023

One of the most exhilarating and difficult things I do each year is sort through the Smart Women in Meetings Award nominations. We are cheering you on, Veronica Rivera and hope you will continue bringing your authentic self to benefit San Diego Tourism. Smart Women in Meetings Awards 2023 Issue Your goals gave me hope for the future.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The talking point for IMEX 2023 was Human Nature, something IMEX Group CEO Carina Bauer pointed to as important right now because people need to feel uplifted and positive about the future of the planet and the human race at a time when daily news feeds are filled with so much hardship and adversity. You have to give them balance.”

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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. Research by MMGY Travel Intelligence, HIS Markit, Travel Market Insights, National Travel & Tourism and U.S. Travel Is Up, But Not Out of Weeds Yet appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

While some may believe these seemingly progressive actions will simply restore the travel and tourism industry to the way it was in 2018, the concept of travel from our pre-Covid days no longer exists. We can not hop in a time machine and return to the pre-pandemic world of 2018 travel and tourism. Going Back To Nature. Going Virtual.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2022

The summer of 2023 will herald a new era of meetings in South Lake Tahoe with the arrival of the over $100-million Tahoe South Events Center. The events center’s projected date of completion is July 6, 2023. The events center’s projected date of completion is July 6, 2023. of meeting space.

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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. The tourism industry can reach a community in a (literally) organic way!

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Advice from Meet Hawai’i on supporting the islands in wake of Lahaina fires Meeting professionals watching images of devastation from the city of Lahaina on the island of Maui may be asking if it is safe or even prudent to bring groups to the Hawaiian Islands now. Tourism is vital to Hawai‘i because it supports the local economy.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Construction begins in January 2023 to build ocV!BE. Anaheim, since the dawn of Disney, has been a huge driver for Orange County, for Southern California, for travel tourism,” says Pederson. Yet this tourism has been largely family oriented. 2023 – “Shovels in the dirt” in January 2023. Pederson says ocV!BE

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

The recent renovation of InterContinental Berlin perfectly captures the new concept of ‘Luxury of Space’ for meetings and events. Located in Central Berlin, the hotel emphasises its commitment to providing expansive, state-of-the-art facilities for meetings and events.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The post Valencia welcomes the World Tourism Film Awards 2023 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. The city of Valencia, Spain, will host the 35th edition of the World Tourism Film Awards. This edition marks the third consecutive year that Valencia hosts the World Tourism Film Awards. said Alexander V.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

billion in funding for generative AI startups was announced within the first three months of 2023 alone. We’re thrilled to welcome meeting and event attendees back to the City by the Bay. San Francisco’s welcoming people, its unbeatable food scene, and its endless activity regularly lead to record-breaking meeting attendance.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2024

Smart Meetings spoke to Liu to learn more about Atlantis Bahamas’ environmental stewardship, ocean preservation and conservation initiatives and how planners can get involved when meeting there. How Planners Can Get Involved We know that meetings can be wasteful. Liu is on a mission to save these reefs, though.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2022

She was a Smart Meetings Supplier of the Year, was recognized as CEO of the Year while in Monterey, was one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry, and was one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women in the industry twice. Read More : Maritz Is Reinventing What’s Next in Seattle. Building on a Legacy.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

What to consider when planning an event at an all-inclusive resort Meeting Professionals International (MPI) CEO Paul VanDeventer likes to say that when planning the association’s World Education Congress (WEC), MPI takes chances so members don’t have to take on the risk. Construction delays at America’s Center Convention Complex in St.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

NYC & Company Rebrands, Adds ‘Conventions’ to Name NYC & Company, the CVB for Gotham has rebranded as New York City Tourism + Conventions, adding the “conventions” to hit home the value the city has for meeting planners. This shift strategically positions us to continue leading the City’s nearly $65 billion tourism economy.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The post TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit 2023 brings together the international tourism ecosystem in Seville appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. Global inspiration that crosses borders The new edition of the TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit will extend its knowledge beyond European borders.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rohit Radhakrishnan Rohit Radhakrisnan Radhakrishnan joins Embassy Suites by Hilton Asheville Downtown , set to open in winter 2023, as general manager. Bringing over 35 years of experience in international tourism and hotel business, Arnold is an incredible choice to manage the hotels’ growth in a prime alpine destination.

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