Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 19, 2024

Rhanee Palma Rising global temperatures impact not only the health and safety of participants, but meeting design and site-selection strategies, said Rhanee Palma, CDME, operations and events manager for the Davis, California–based UC Davis Air Quality Research Center (AQRC).

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A new toolkit for employees at hotels, convention centers, and special-event venues can provide planners with deeper perspective on what to ask during site selection. We must be at the forefront of accommodating people with varying abilities—some of which are invisible to others—and communicate options to meeting planners in advance.”

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Maritz Global Events

AUGUST 15, 2019

It affects everything from the site selection process right through to delivery. While some have taken dramatic steps such as bomb-sniffing dogs to increase security at their events, communication is the most crucial aspect of any plan. Keeping open lines of communication between managers, venues, etc. is critical.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2024

applications for creating titles and descriptions for event sessions as well as for marketing and other communications aimed at attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and others. Most meeting planners have likely discovered the benefits of ChatGPT and other generative-A.I. However, a new academic paper titled “Human-A.I.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

APRIL 14, 2024

These partners provide boots-on-the-ground knowledge and management to help advise and assist on-site. Site Selection and Negotiation Incentive travel companies need to be able to effectively negotiate hotel contracts to ensure their clients receive the best value for their investment.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MAY 2, 2024

These partners provide boots-on-the-ground knowledge and management to help advise and assist on-site. Site Selection and Negotiation Incentive travel companies need to be able to effectively negotiate hotel contracts to ensure their clients receive the best value for their investment.

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Incentives Travel Travel Logistics 52

Convene by PCMA

MAY 23, 2024

PCMA’s Catalyst community offers members a platform to ask each other questions, share ideas, or, as the website says, “communicate and collaborate.” Julia Levene , CEO, Hotel Site Selection Specialist, Association Planner Partners Here’s a sampling from a recent Catalyst discussion. “I

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tanna Pearman, meeting broker for Las Vegas-based Meetings Made Easy, handles site selection and contracting for both corporate and association clients, which means her approach to building RFPs focuses on different elements of each meeting to match a given destination and its various hotels. “But

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

-based event and experience marketing agency, empowers purpose-driven communities to engage vital audiences, advancing the mission for top brands, businesses, and universities. Communications. beedance Atlanta, GA beedance is a boutique creative agency full of doers and problem solvers. Digital Experiences.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 29, 2022

A lot of these workers couldn’t leave the country and they couldn’t communicate with family back home. So, they formed their own communities,” Ta said. To Palma, now CEO of Sacramento-based site-selection and hospitality consulting firm Palma & Co, Oakland and NACIVT seemed like a perfect fit.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

CPG is a full-service, corporate events & engagement agency specializing in live experiences, event production, internal communication and immersive digital strategies that take brand messaging further. Henry V is a full service communications agency specializing in live events and experiential marketing. InVision Communications.

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Blue Spark Event Design

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Services we provided: Site Selection and Negotiation (Venue Sourcing). Site Visit Management. Coordinated and communicated all event details with the convention center and vendors. Food and Beverage Management. Audio Visual Management. Designed Custom Event Décor and Brand Activation. Entertainment.

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Blue Spark Event Design

JANUARY 13, 2021

Travel advice to communicate to employees/attendees: Check travel restrictions before you go. Local policies at your destination may require you to be tested for COVID-19. If you test positive on arrival, you should be prepared to isolate for a period of time as may be required. Get a flu shot before you travel.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 25, 2022

For planners, the goal is to be proactive instead of reactive so you can best communicate your values as an organization and be transparent about the site-selection process/criteria. Speak to your DMO, the local officials, empower your members with the tools to communicate to their local officials. Carrie Johnson.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 15, 2022

And our communications director shared with me some reactions to the letter that were confidential, because many of them went privately to our president or to a private Facebook group some of them [created]. And it’s really hard to communicate how site selection is made to our members to begin with. It’s a quandary.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

For meeting professionals, the situation is a good reminder of several site-selection and risk-management best practices. If you’re sharing a hotel with a group that’s likely to draw protestors, you’ll need to communicate with attendees about protocols and safety. Industry lawyer Joshua L. Grimes, Esq.

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