Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

They negotiate for higher wages, improved benefits including retirement plans and family healthcare, job training, due process and safety concerns. The financial benefits of union membership have been recorded several times. The post The Mutual Benefits of Planning with a Unionized Property appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2025

Sign up for the monthly Behind the Bookings newsletter here The Importance of Data in Event Marketing When you track ROI, you can see which marketing efforts are working and which ones aren’t. Without proper measurement, it’s impossible to determine which marketing efforts drive bookings and which merely consume resources.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

Why Print Still Matters in Advertising Despite the dominance of digital platforms, print advertising offers tangible benefits that digital ads simply cant match. Stronger Recall: Print ads drive a remarkable 77% higher brand recall compared to digital, making it more likely your audience remembers your hotel when its time to book.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

Effective drip campaigns can help you automate personalized communication to engage potential guests, convert casual inquirers into bookings, and even rekindle relationships with past clients. These could range from completing a booking to attending a hosted event. This approach delivers unmatched benefits.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 24, 2025

Group travel benefits through this partnership include 10% off round-trip airfare, 20% off the best available room rate at Stein Collection properties, a $100 daily resort credit per room for food, beverages, or spa treatments, as well as complimentary room upgrades and late departures (subject to availability).

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The MICE Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

To promote sustainable travel within the city, free public transport tickets are provided for attendees who book their hotel stays through Stuttgart Marketing. Attendees booking hotels through Stuttgart Marketing receive free public transport tickets, with frequent connections between venues, hotels, and the airport.

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ADMEI

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What is a DMC and How Does It Benefit Me? As an event planner, you’re the expert in this craft —yet it could benefit you greatly to have a local ally who is the expert in your selected destination. What are the benefits of working with a DMC? To put on a successful event, you need both big-picture vision and an eye for detail.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Speakers who impressed at the conference saw a rise in bookings on the continuing education platform. Community feeling and mutual benefit : The conference strengthened the bond within AER member companies. The exchange between tour operators and travel agencies led to mutual benefits.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Partnership Benefits. Most of the deals take the shape of a 25% to 49% minority position in a thriving MICE company with the added benefit of opening up the shared services and supplier contracts to the owner-operator so everyone benefits.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 20, 2023

If something is included in the price but the buyer hasn’t asked for it, it’s a questionable benefit and possibly a detriment. This is why we’ve teamed up with Hudson Crossing , a leading global advisor to travel and hospitality companies, to unravel what this concept entails and what benefits this approach gives hoteliers and hotel guests.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Their “Cabana for a Cure” program offers guests the opportunity to book a private, pink-themed poolside cabana for up to seven people. 250 from each booking will benefit the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation. It is available for bookings throughout the month of October.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Sustainability benefits the environment, of course, but it should benefit your brand, too! Instead of booking one colossal event annually, that draws thousands of people, adopt a satellite sustainable event model. Here are ten ways to make your next event sustainable without sacrificing the attendee experience.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 13, 2022

With locations in more than 100 countries, there is a strong incentive for meeting planners to take advantage of all the benefits available to Rewards members. The redesign of the IHG One Rewards program has been optimized to give members a wide variety of benefits. What’s In It For Guests?

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Travel Daily Media

JUNE 13, 2024

The post Compelling reasons to book rooms with access to the Club InterContinental at InterContinental Bangkok appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. Book a room with access to the Club InterContinental at InterContinental Bangkok and have an enhanced and more luxurious stay. Or call +66 (0)2656 0444.

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Endless Events

MAY 13, 2022

Today, there are many ways to prepare for a career in event planning: Work on your soft skills, Get a degree, Get a certificate, Look for free content (webinars, podcasts, e-books, blogs), Work at events (as a volunteer), Build a strong network of event profs (join communities). Do not just network for your own benefit.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JULY 12, 2022

We all saw travel decrease dramatically in 2020 as flights and bookings were canceled due to COVID-19. However, even though domestic flights have increased so far for 2022, bookings have decreased by 2.3 Higher fares seem to play a significant part in the booking deficit. percent per month , according to Adobe Analytics.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

Prospective workers have high expectations—if hotels give them an offer they can’t refuse, meeting planners will reap the benefits of a smoother hospitality experience. Thanks to the increase in digital booking platforms and hotel apps, many business and leisure guests prefer to check in online rather than with a receptionist.

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Dana Communications

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Chatbots on your website and social media channels assist guests with common questions, provide recommendations and even allow them to directly book rooms. Guest Apps: Properties can increase engagement and satisfaction AND boost bookings with a flexible, functional app. The Latest Wi-Fi: What’s in a number?

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Whenever you promote it, you can direct attendees to one landing page that answers common questions, explains the app’s benefits, and more. Sometimes attendees need an engaging visual that explains all of the benefits of using your app. A landing page gives your event app a home base. Make App Downloads a Contest. Live polls.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

A private charter, especially, offers the benefit of no interaction between unrelated parties, the opportunity for crew to oversee safety precautions continuously, and a heightened ability to keep track of those in contact—unlike in an airport with high traffic and no way to limit interaction. Budget Friendly Group Travel.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Though I love my work, it was nice to reduce the number of high-intensity workdays booked in 2023! Generative AI: How do we use it and benefit from it in the world of events? 2023 book sale! (If If you skipped straight here, I understand and forgive you 😀 ) I have a hard time offering a sale on my paperback books.

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 9, 2024

The post Meetingselect is using Travelport+ to enable direct and preferred hotel bookings appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Meetingselect has recently started working with Travelport, a global technology company that powers travel bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Short-term rentals benefit the whole destination (and the entire community) economically, as guests will spend money visiting restaurants, bars, and other amenities around the rental. Thankfully, destinations can offset the valleys by encouraging off-season visitors to book STRs for longer periods of time.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

When Keely Cat-Wells, founder and president of C-Talent , arrived to speak at an event about the importance of diversity and accessibility with her colleague, who was in a wheelchair, the two were met with a startling realization: the room that was booked for the event was entirely inaccessible.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 17, 2024

The post Oslofjord Convention Center in Norway appoints RMS Cloud to automate bookings appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. Obviously, we want to make upselling as easy as possible for our team, so this is a huge benefit.”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2024

In his book “Team of Teams,” General Stanley McChrystal, former Commander of U.S. And we always want whatever participants build, assemble and customize to stay local, because we want the “goodness” to benefit the destination.

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Motivation Excellence

MAY 2, 2023

Maybe you’re tired of overdue library books and late fees on bills. No matter if it’s your personal or professional life, managing your own clock well brings multiple benefits to you and those around you. Why Time Management Matters for You You could be a procrastinator. Or, perhaps, you’re the person who’s always the last to arrive.

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Social Tables

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you’re a travel planner setting up your booking strategy or a smart shopper who wants to get the most with your money, you can benefit from early bird registration deals and product offers. Not all early bird specials offer the same benefit for customers. Get other early bird savings on hotel bookings and flights.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Having interviewed experts from both sides of the equation, this paper will offer advice on what those shifts are and how you can benefit from them. If a group is looking to book in 2024, Omni may negotiate contracted rates and concessions if they will book more of their meetings with a sister Omni hotel in future years.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Gregg explained the definitions and the differences—hard power refers to the tangible financial benefits and promoting company policy that can increase by “dangling the carrot” of desirable incentive rewards, while “soft power” is a more humanitarian approach to incentives. As Gregg told webinar attendees, “Nothing replaces travel.”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Gregg explained the definitions and the differences—hard power refers to the tangible financial benefits and promoting company policy that can increase by “dangling the carrot” of desirable incentive rewards, while “soft power” is a more humanitarian approach to incentives. As Gregg told webinar attendees, “Nothing replaces travel.”

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 5, 2022

Unless, of course, you could book it in a few clicks through your hotel’s website. Way’s program puts local artists, small businesses and the regional experiences they provide on the property’s website, so hotel guests can book directly with the small business. It really doesn’t get easier than candlelit slow yoga with your group.

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Techsytalk

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Venues often share bookings with other events such as weddings or receptions. Remember that both sides need to benefit from this. For example, if you’re hosting an event and you are a small tech company, try to figure out what other company (a partner or a sponsor) would benefit from having their logo displayed at your event.

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Endless Events

MAY 30, 2018

What benefits they see from offering clients to step outside the ballroom. Behind the Red Velvet Curtain: Build and Run the Event Planning Business of Your Dreams (Book). Lo, DMCP of Red Velvet Events and Babs Nijdam of Sequoia Partnership will discuss everything you need to know about alternative event venues. Sequoia Partnership.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 28, 2025

Read More : Southwest Commits to Groups with Simplified Booking, Investment in Routes and People If you have travelers that are considering switching from Southwest, now is absolutely the time, said Dana Sample, Deltas director of business-to-business marketing strategy and enablement.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Sullivan, a former president of Caterpillar Foundation, is the author of the book “Looking Up: How a Different Perspective Turns Obstacles into Advantages.”. Association Exchange conversations showcased the benefits of a strong partner-client relationships.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2024

Non-alcoholic beverage and conversation-starter card “If we could put a sequence of services and treatments, good food, good product and good exercise that brings people together and [they] see a benefit to it, that’s what we’re always looking for…The world is a busy place, so we have to kind of bring it down a couple notches sometimes.”

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