Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

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. This trust boosts your hotels reputation and builds customer confidence in making a booking. Additionally, print has longevity.

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Dana Communications

MARCH 24, 2025

For hoteliers, resort owners and destinations, email marketing remains one of the most powerful and cost-effective tools to engage guests, boost bookings and build brand loyalty. For example: A past guest who booked a spa package receives an email highlighting your new wellness offerings. Share tips for greener travel.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2025

By partnering with travel-related newsletters, hotels can share promotional offers, highlight unique amenities, and encourage bookings. Its essential to ensure that these ads are linked to a well-designed landing page on your hotels website, which provides information and an easy booking option.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 15, 2025

Promoting Inclusive, Welcoming Local Attitudes Could Moderate Reactions to Federal Actions Americans reading about the flurry of activity out of Washington, D.C., Many have already booked all their 2025 trips and Californias blend of nature, culture and adventure offers multi-generational appeal. But competition is fierce.

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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. Here’s how: Event organisers have a wide selection of nearby venues, making it easy to promote walking or public transport.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

She brings a successful background in strategically tracking sales and revenue against booking requirements, and has held leadership roles at several top hotels in Cleveland, enabling her to successfully introduce this new hotel to the city.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Read More : What to Expect When Booking A-List Event Speakers Cameron says the Encore team has worked with speaker bureaus and certain keynotes who initially would say they don’t have the time. —they’re equipped with the lighting, a camera, white backdrop and monitors so they can see the audience and interact with them in real-time. “[It]

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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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The MICE Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Speakers who impressed at the conference saw a rise in bookings on the continuing education platform. The organization promotes travel by public transport and has been compensating for the entire event for years. The team transported equipment directly by van on setup day.

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Endless Events

JUNE 5, 2020

Suggest a theme that your attendees can make their own – they’ll change into something that fits the purpose, and you can even adopt certain elements of it into the promotion of your virtual event. Book Clubs Don’t Get Old. Hire A Musician/Singer. Plus, dancing isn’t the only physical activity you can include.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Promote the App Before Your Event. Don’t promote your app just on registration day — share your event app deets with attendees ASAP so more people get the memo ahead of time. Promote your app as soon as you share the event details. You need dedicated promotions for your app before, during, and after the event.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Booking major venues and event entertainment is something that should be done as soon as possible. Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. Consider booking your AV team prior to your venue. Begin event promotion and create marketing strategies.

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Dana Communications

AUGUST 22, 2023

An Engaging Bookings Booster Ok, so the destination is selected. Travelers aren’t booking a hotel solely on word of mouth or reviews anymore. Using AR technology in these ways can be a definite win-win – by giving the audience what they’re looking for and increasing bookings. AR can also be used to promote an entire region.

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Endless Events

MAY 20, 2022

Rather than booking an impersonal hotel ballroom, book a non-traditional venue. And last but not least, book it early. You can promote your hybrid event within your community for free. As with all types of events, speakers and emcees can cost as little as $500 or as much as $100,000 if you book a celebrity.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2024

Meyer is promoted to the role of vice president of government and industry relations. promotes Pratt to the role of chief business development officer. She will now work with the hotel team at Pensacola Beach Resort to secure and host various events and attract a greater volume of group and social bookings to the resort.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

He will lead the organization’s sales initiatives through events, lead generation and customer engagement and work to increase hotel bookings across the city. Brittney Cobb Brittney Cobb, INNOV8 Meetings + Events Cobb is promoted to the role of director, global accounts at INNOV8 Meetings + Events. Before joining Play Social Inc.,

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Dana Communications

APRIL 25, 2022

For DMOs and CVBs promoting their own corner of the world to travelers, it may sometimes seem like the budget you’re granted just isn’t enough to accomplish all of your goals. Enter…co-op marketing! Never-Ending Stories. With great benefits come…a great deal of work.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But before you get too entrenched in booking speakers or drawing up venue contracts, it’s best to think about how you’ll get results from an in-person event. Offer sponsorship levels that allow brands to advertise in your event app with banners, freebies, deals, promotional emails, and more. . How can you track attendee metrics?

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Promote Your Destination as a Place to Relocate. DMOs can leverage STRs to promote a destination as a place to build a life and grow a career. DMOs can leverage STRs to promote a destination as a place to build a life and grow a career. That means destinations are facing lower occupancy rates during the off-season. .

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Destinations International Large Market Roundtable outlined initiatives to establish Destination Booking Agreement Guidelines to create certainty for all parties. It is time as meeting planners are starting to book again,” said Evy Garcias, Director of Sales & Marketing for Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Puerto Rico Golf & Beach Resort.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 8, 2024

The pass can be booked for durations of 3, 4, 6, 8, or 15 days, offering significant savings in both time and money. Residenz’ since February 2022: The Neubad apartment serves as a retreat for creative and sociocultural short and long stays, actively promoting art and networking. They can also suggest local giveaways.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Third party legwork can consist of registration, promotional items, air manifest, air bookings, transportation, food and beverage, audiovisual production, collection of information, collection of speaker notes, agendas, and on-site logistics. The larger groups are booking out at three to five years now.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

He has led an outstanding sales team that achieved 116 percent of the room revenue booking goal in 2022. Spurrier looks forward to embracing Hawaii’s unique culture and resources alongside his team to promote The Westin Maui as a phenomenal experiential destination. She earlier worked at Visit Seattle and WE Communications.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

Scott Flynn, CEO of team building provider Best Corporate Events , says his company saw a surge in bookings for live events in June only to see interest pivot back to virtual events more recently. Now, in late August, Live events booking are surging again. We’re agnostic about the format,” he notes.

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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. Want to go next level? The Latest Wi-Fi: What’s in a number?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

ACVB has also promoted Laws to the role of director of sales. Cosgrave is promoted to the role of vice president of account management. She will lead sales efforts for both domestic and international markets with a focus on leisure and group bookings as she works to enhance the property’s visibility and growth. and New Orleans.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

According to a March article in The Washington Post , Royal Caribbean Group has seen a 30 percent increase in new bookings in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the last two months of 2020. Interestingly, he noted, revenue for 2022 reservations is 24 percent higher, possibly reflecting that cruisers are booking more expensive vacations.

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Techsytalk

APRIL 11, 2017

This is also the time to book a block of rooms at your hotel (even if you don’t know which specific staffers will be there) and to order promotional items with your business name and information. Finalize everything, from your booth shipment to your branded materials and promotions.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

TRUMARKETING is a boutique sales and marketing firm representing tourist boards, destination management companies (DMCs) and hotel partners around the globe in promotional and sales campaigns. If you have meetings booked there, keep those bookings. Berrada was in Casablanca when the quake hit.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 13, 2022

With the new mobile app, patrons can look at their points, make bookings on the go and check in online. In addition to previous perks of the IHG One Rewards program, such as exclusive discounts, free Wi-Fi and late checkout, IHG announced a promotion called the “6,000 Club.” What’s In It For Guests?

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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. Sometimes called “advanced sales” or “VIP offers,” early bird promotions can prove to be advantageous to everyone involved.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2022

Hundreds of pages of e-books and guides about the hospitality industry are also available. Some are organized into lists of tools and tips, while others stick to a traditional book format. You can also obtain a certificate upon completion that can be added to a LinkedIn profile or resume.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2020

Sponsorship promotion in email blasts. Then, use a tool like Calendly to make scheduling and booking easy and simple for both parties. The final step is promotion. Create a simple rate card or one-pager that shows the opportunity. You can sell sponsorship to: 30-second intro on-air sponsorship slot.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2024

In his book “Team of Teams,” General Stanley McChrystal, former Commander of U.S. It was a concept we decided to adopt and promote through a “Cause Business” alliance we named “2 Guys Doing Good.” Contact Steven at stevenfoster@foster-fathom.com or at foster-fathom.com The post Doing Good: The Juice is Worth the Squeeze!

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Techsytalk

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Venues often share bookings with other events such as weddings or receptions. People needed it to plan, promote and basically do everything event-wise. You can use e-mail to send invitations , promotional material, schedules and general info about the event. When it comes to events, the concept is quite similar.

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Eventtia

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While our focus on this guide is how to use social media to promote our events, we’ll also need to consider the other available channels and best practices. What is the goal of promoting or marketing your event? Easy way to register and book your tickets with clear ticket pricing information. Define Event Marketing Goals.

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