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Focus on Sustainability: Marriott Bonvoy Events Embrace Innovative Practices in Meetings and Events

Smart Meetings

As travelers grow increasingly engaged with environmental issues, hotels and restaurants around the world are implementing innovative programs to create the greatest environmental benefit while minimizing their impact, allowing guests to feel good about partnering with companies that share their values.

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Best of 2024: Health and Wellness

Smart Meetings

How can planners help their attendees to feel a sense of genuine belonging through their event design? Whats the business case for having consistent wellness programming in events? The health and wellness stories of 2024 have the answers. Alone in the Crowd?

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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Truly creative event design We are biased against truly creative event design.

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The Art of Event Design: Key Strategies to Create a Visual Experience That Wows

Traveler's Q

Event design can make or break an event, and its importance cannot be overstated. Effective event design enhances the overall experience for attendees and can even increase engagement, encourage more social interaction, and ultimately elevate the brand experience.

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Benefits of Hiring a Professional Event Planner

Blue Spark Event Design

Finally, you need to find a planner you trust to honor and support your company’s brand identity during the event or meeting. A great event that is in conflict with a company’s iconic image or messaging is a brand disaster. Below are some the benefits to hiring a professional event planner: Stress-free planning.

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Predicting the Near Future of Incentive Travel

Dana Communications

One unsurpassed solution: integrating attractive incentive travel programs into their companies’ complete benefits packages. For instance, even the possibility of attending the live, in-person incentive trip portion of a hybrid recognition and reward event provides stronger motivation for employees to achieve the maximum performance level.

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Small is the new big—for meetings!

Conferences that Work

It seems the meeting industry is finally catching on to this reality and its benefits. Smaller meetings, known by industry experts as micro events, continue strong growth. Simpler internal team meetings, VIP events, and client advisory boards will be among the most common types of meetings as we go forward.

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