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Lessons from Dubai’s Massive, Rescheduled 2020 World Expo

Smart Meetings

“Expo 2020 Dubai is an investment in a sustainable, resilient and diversified economy that will spur broader economic impact in key sectors—including construction, transport, storage, communications, travel, tourism, hospitality and business services—in the UAE, the wider region and beyond,” Nagdev said. Pandemic Impacts.

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New and Renovated: Urban Style and Sustainable Stays

Smart Meetings

Modern AV technology and high-speed Wi-Fi are available for event organizers. As a Marriott property, planners can use the Marriott Meeting Services App to streamline the planning process. Accommodating the growing trend of extended hotel stays, the hotel offers special amenities that make long stays more comfortable.

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A Planner’s Guide to Event Vendors 

Social Tables

Although event planners, designers, and organizers build the outline for an event, vendors help bring it to life; they are the people and companies that make your event stand out. Many event vendors create the products they offer or provide their services directly. Discuss their general business, services, availability, and pricing.

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What’s at the Heart of ‘Zoom Fatigue’

Convene by PCMA

The research was conducted by Allison Gabriel, professor of management and organization at the University of Arizona, and Kristen Shockley, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, working with BroadPath, a business services company that has offered remote work to employees for more than a decade.

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Leading Business Events Management Company, PRA Acquires Island Style Innovations in Hawai‘i

PRA

EagleTree primarily invests in North America in the following sectors: business services, consumer, and water and specialty industrial. The post Leading Business Events Management Company, PRA Acquires Island Style Innovations in Hawai‘i appeared first on PRA.

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In It for the Long Haul

MeetingsNet

The time frame required to organize and launch an incentive travel campaign will mean that programs will only be delivered at the back end of 2021. As a business owner, this is an opportunity to reimagine your business services, work on the marketing plan, and take on other projects that you never get time for.

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How the Great Resignation is Impacting Business Events

Convene by PCMA

executives surveyed said that over the past six months, their organization has experienced higher or much higher turnover than usual. Too often, organizations fail to acknowledge — let along address — other dimensions,” she wrote in MIT Sloan Management Review. More than 40 percent of U.S. And nearly half of U.S.