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Hospitality Strike Votes Could Increase with Arrival of High-Tech Hotels, Minimum Wage Increases

Smart Meetings

Strike votes by hospitality workers in Las Vegas and, now, Chicago could be harbingers of more labor actions in response to loss of job security caused by automation, according to labor experts. The Las Vegas call for a strike was an indicator, according to Randy Pullen, CEO of hospitality human resources consulting company Wagewatch.

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How Convention Centers Are Incubating Events Industry Recovery

Convene by PCMA

The innovation areas targeted by the MT Lab read like the ultimate wish list for the business events industry: tools that help automate decision making and increase revenue; new ways to lessen the environmental impact of events; and new multisensory, interactive and/or immersive concepts that elicit emotional responses from participants.

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The Top 10 Human Resources Articles of 2017

BizBash

The overhaul of performance management, AI, the rise of the gig economy , HR and recruitment automation, prioritization of the candidate and employee experience, gamification , and millennials becoming the majority workforce are just a few of the changes that 2017 brought to the workplace.

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TIS2023 will delve into how to attract talent and foster leadership in the new era of tourism

Travel Daily Media

TIS-Tourism Innovation Summit 2023, the international summit on tourism innovation and technology to be held in Seville, Spain, from October 18-20, will feature prominent leaders in Training, Human Resources and Business Leadership.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

Or even automate the engine to always deliver you the best deals. No OTA is fully automated. Ideally, all these functions should be automated to allocate your time and human resources to growing the business rather than supporting it. There are tons of factors and their combinations to include in commission rules.

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Could A.I. Become “Big Brother” at Virtual Meetings?

MeetingsNet

will analyze virtual-meeting interactions, including spoken words and observed behaviors, to identify for the human-resources team “potential hot spots where biases may be present.” On the other hand, there is no way to predict the unintended consequences that could come from an automated H.R. Further, A.I.

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Bookmark These Top 30 Websites for Event Planners

Bizzaboo

HubSpot HubSpot is a marketing automation platform that boasts extensive resources and lots of tools for marketing your event. They also work with associations and nonprofits, offering services including technology evaluations and staffing solutions, live webinars and on-location workshops, and website and plugin creation.

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