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Canada Calls: Event Planning Paradise

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings reached out to Laura Pallotta, regional vice president of sales and distribution of Canada Marriott International, who offered up some insights to the latest relevant travel trends for planners looking to sculpt an international experience. Gen Z is our future traveler’s meeting planner and decision maker.

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Super Bowl LIX: As Las Vegas Cools Down, New Orleans Heats Up

Smart Meetings

The Big Easy prepares for its 11th Super Bowl When the NFL added another week to its usual 17-week schedule in 2021, this created a small problem between the Super Bowl LVIII and this year’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans. This particular year was very important [for Las Vegas],” she says. They had a fresh start.

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Everything You Need To Know To Create Your Event Timeline

Endless Events

Booking major venues and event entertainment is something that should be done as soon as possible. However, if you’re planning a corporate meeting, six months might be all you need. Include all planning meetings into your event timeline so everyone can add them to their calendar and prepare in advance.

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Smart Moves in Houston, Chicago and More

Smart Meetings

Sierra Coronell Sierra Coronell As group sales manager at Hyatt Centric Downtown Denver , Coronell will be responsible for selling guest rooms, meeting space and other Hyatt services to customer groups. She will also be in charge of managing accounts, preparing and presenting proposals and generating business.

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Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business

Smart Meetings

of meeting space. We are booking small corporate meetings and associations for 2022. Many of these are executive/leadership meetings—in-person with a hybrid component. Many are eager to get back to in-person meetings, but want to start small We are also getting requests for a help with hybrid components.

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A Year in Recovery: Best Pandemic Travel Tips, Takeaways of 2021

Smart Meetings

The pandemic and the time it took away from air travel and in-person meetings have revealed ways to safeguard—and even improve—the health of meeting professionals and the way we conduct meetings. These tips and takeaways from over the receding year help ease traveling for work.

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How to Build Corporate Meeting KPIs that Will Demonstrate ROI to the C-Suite

Gavel International

To put it succinctly: “KPIs are a forward-looking predictor of end performance, whereas ROI is used as a backward-looking informer of future budget allocation decisions.” ( 1 ) Thinking of KPIs and ROI in terms of a book is a simpler way of looking at it. ROI is the fulfillment of the promise made by KPIs. The following equation will help.