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New York City Hotel Licensing Fight: What Meeting Profs Need to Know

Smart Meetings

Such as a requirement for hotels with 100 rooms or more to employ hotel staff for front desk and housekeeping—not contracted workers—and have panic buttons for workers who clean and maintain guest rooms. But by 2027 or sooner, there will be “almost nothing” in the pipeline. Nice Planner! It gets worse. The question is, at what rate?”

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Smart Travel: Flying Taxi Startup Raises Millions, Armenia Debuts Top Luxury Destination, Marriott Acquires Postcard Cabins and More

Smart Meetings

Wish your attendees could just levitate from the airport to the meeting? Archer Aviation has completed more than 400 test flights and has signed manufacturing contracts worth over $6 billion so far. Looking for an out-of-the-ordinary, nature-heavy venue option? A cool $660 million has just gone toward making that dream a reality.

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Beyond the Bar: Redefining event experiences with non-alcoholic drinks

MPI

Gen Z attendees, a rising attendee demographic, are particularly known for going alcohol-free. The market is shifting overall, with the sales of Guinness Zero projected to surpass the brand’s regular alcohol sales by 2027, he said, and major liquor companies investing in the non-alcoholic options. Some 38 percent of U.S.

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A Look at Planners’ Powerful Partners: CSMs

MeetingsNet

In the post-pandemic meetings environment, the most common “ask” from planners is about creating unique experiences for attendees that will make them remember the meeting by remembering the destination. One was for planners of a 2027 association event requiring 9,000 rooms on peak across nearly 50 hotels.

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Will New Labor Deals Bring Budget Blues to Meetings?

MeetingsNet

As with recent hotel-labor agreements around the country plus a new contract for UPS workers, fresh contracts for more than 45,000 airline pilots may well affect costs around business events. The compensation and benefits for American pilots will be more than $9 billion across the four-year contract.