Smart Meetings

MARCH 25, 2025

To find out what the university is teaching future meetings and event professionals and what they gleaned from the two days of sessions and networking, we asked Ryan Becker, senior vice president of communications and strategy with Visit California. Those values are encapsulated in the vision statement: Live, protect, explore.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The world of sustainable events is bigger than ever. As more planners and partners in hospitality and tourism incorporate sustainability into their business models, it becomes a need-to-have, rather than a nice-to-have. Sustainability Tools for Easier Green Planning Planning sustainable events isnt a small task.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We want to be your partner through it all, which is why attending events like the Destinations Florida Annual Meeting is so imperative to us. This event is unique because it typically focuses on destination leadership and the unique challenges destinations face. What we do here truly matters to the overall Florida tourism industry.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2024

MPI, the largest association within the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) industry, has announced it will hold its 2025 European Meetings & Events Convention (EMEC) in Istanbul, the site of the EMEC 2014. With 1,000 members and 10 chapters and clubs, MPI has the largest presence at the conference.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The 2025 European Meetings & Events Conference (EMEC) gathered meeting professionals in Istanbul, Turkiye, for three days of education, exploration and networking in a city that blends old and new, East and West, business and pleasure. We break down some of the innovative notes at the conference and the destination below.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The 2025 European Meetings & Events Conference gathered meeting professionals in Istanbul, Turkiye, for three days of education, exploration and networking in a city that blends old and new, East and West, business and pleasure. We break down some of the innovative notes at the conference and the destination below.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. Megan Knapp Megan Knapp, Newsweek Knapp takes on the role of senior vice president of events at Newsweek.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As always, Smart Travel is here to bring you the latest cant-miss news in tourism and travel. For meeting profs organizing conferences and corporate gatherings at the Shaw Centre and other downtown venues, this new transit option simplifies logistics for international delegates.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 3, 2025

One warm summer day in 2024, Eming and I locked ourselves in the conference room to hunker down and figure out how we could bring our podcast to the forefront of the meetings industry. Tyra Dyson, CMP, DES Chief Events Strategist, TCD Events & Hospitality See her speak in Smart Start: Better Together: Championing Women in Events.

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Dana Communications

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tourism is fascinating. Tourism is exhilarating. Tourism is also easily affected. Those of us in the tourism industry know all too well that in the blink of an eye, a natural disaster can turn a beautiful top-selling destination into a disaster zone. With tourism after a natural disaster focus on the positive.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 15, 2021

By all measures, this week’s Destinations International Annual Conference 2021 (AC21) in Baltimore, Maryland, was a huge success. The story behind AC21 is a lesson in how important robust partnerships for meeting event production in this Covid-era. Or a completely on-site event at the scale of the 2019 conference in St.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

Tourism, for all its economic and personal growth potential, has a massive environmental footprint. Sustainability efforts are key to keep the travel and tourism train going. Read More : Roundup of Post-Event Life for Olympic Venues. In 2018, international visitors accounted for 81% of Bangkok’s tourism spend.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

Read More : How to Cultivate a State of Play at Events Asia Himeji, Japan, at Himeji Castle All eyes were on the Asia panel as gateway cities in particular were eager to hear when China visitors would be returning in pre-pandemic numbers. destinations around sports and entertainment, but vary in their dream event destination.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 10, 2022

The first day of the hospitality conference held at NYU earlier this week discussed the growing trend of returning to travel, at times exceeding pre-pandemic rates. Tisch Center of Hospitality in the NYU School of Professional Studies is the ideal host for a conference discussing today’s trends in the travel industry. Jonathan M.

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ETC Corporate

JUNE 1, 2021

European tourism bodies providing the essential leadership to reassure consumers that safe and seamless travel is possible in summer 2021. Leading by example, the heads of European national tourism boards met in person for the first time since the start of the pandemic to show Europe’s readiness to restart travel and tourism.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 31, 2025

The price of the tragic disaster is even greater when calculating the loss of tourism and meetings revenue that is so important to the region. Beteta said going ahead with a planned event as STS did or planning a new one is a meaningful way to show that the area is still an attractive destination for attendees and avert an economic crisis.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2021

You’re at a multiday conference, and during one of the midday breaks you decide to spend a bit of time at an outlet to treat yourself. The 500,000-square-foot Atlantic City Convention Center just hosted its first large-scale events since Covid-19, U.S. As you walk around, you notice a swarm of bees overhead.

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Endless Events

JULY 18, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Hybrid Events: 10 Questions About Hybrid Events, Answered. Event Tech: Event Tech Podcast: A Klik Review. ? We are known for our yearly event trends guide, but this year we stepped it up a notch and created a 2020 Virtual Event Trends Webinar! Do I stay or do I go?

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

When the idea to stage an international, multi-day conference in Bern was born back in 2018, we didn’t know how things would turn out, and that we’d need to change our plans upside down. From a four-day live event format, the conference turned into an e-format and was live-streamed from Bern, Switzerland from 28–30 August 2020.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2022

After a quiet two years on the events, hospitality and tourism fronts, an experience-driven, diversity, equity and inclusion-devoted (DEI) next generation of talent is pouring through open doors, looking for opportunities to break into the industry. Events Is Taking Interns. Academic Access to Events and Hospitality Grows.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2022

Whether that be fantastic decorations, exceptional live entertainment or even introducing an eclectic menu, planners are creative thinkers who design events with the intent of appealing to attendees. The purpose of most events is to communicate some message whether that be a new technology product or the latest finance program.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 14, 2022

Many hospitality conferences and conventions were virtual or hybrid events , while others were forced to cancel altogether. As a result, many industry professionals are wondering what to expect from the top hospitality conferences of 2022. Check out what 14 of the most popular hospitality conferences of 2022 have in store: 1.

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Endless Events

MARCH 16, 2018

Are you focusing on your events audience engagement this year? This was apparent at their QuickBooks Connect Conference, which demonstrated different techniques to keep their attendees happy and engaged. Of course, at the core of the event was a set of relevant and directly-usable content that the attendees could take home.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly important as the travel and tourism industries are surging into 2023. Corporate sponsorship allows Invisible Cities to provide skill training for their employees, bring tourism to the city and create a team-building experience that will inspire understanding amongst a group.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

From minimum wage increases to hotel taxes and subsidies for new conference properties, voters in mid-term elections on Tuesday were asked to weigh in on a number of issues that could affect where you hold your meetings and how much they will cost. More : Post-Election, Associations Must Act as Civil Refuge. Hotel Staffing.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2021

9 is an exciting advancement for the Canadian business events industry who are eagerly awaiting the return of conferences, meetings and incentive travel in Canada,” is how Chantal Sturk-Nadeau, executive director for Business Events at Destination Canada responds. for discretionary travel that took place on Aug.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 1, 2021

Travel Association believes professional meetings and events (PME) suffer from being lumped in with other gatherings—and is working to change that. Relying on the most current travel-sector data from The Ohio State University and Tourism Economics, U.S. What the Studies Say. 001 percent, to be precise. What’s to Be Done.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 18, 2019

A decade after the 2008 recession, the industry appears to be stable, with steady growth on the horizon according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events (M&E), a division of American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). Incentives and special events are predicted to increase 1.8 percent in North America, 1.5

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Event AV design isn’t just about adding color and music to your events. That’s what one Grammy pre-event party just did using event AV design, as you can read below. That’s what one Grammy pre-event party just did using event AV design, as you can read below. Should I Gamify My Events?

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Endless Events

MARCH 11, 2021

Even with as many as 2 million people vaccinated in a day in the US, the events industry is still far from organizing post-COVID events. Join Dustin, Nick, Will, and Thuy as they discuss restrictions, vaccinations, and what the future might hold for the events industry in the wake of recent news. That’s step one.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

Travel Association’s National Travel and Tourism Week—which happened this past week—where they discussed the region’s forecast and data from 2021. Research by MMGY Travel Intelligence, HIS Markit, Travel Market Insights, National Travel & Tourism and U.S. Cincinnati recently held two events in the city: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.,

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The need for change in travel and tourism The hospitality industry is continuing its efforts towards improving sustainability, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) with cross-sector discussions and in-person activities. and Blacks in Travel & Tourism.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Tourism bureau Experience Columbia SC hired both Shaffer and Lilly as sales managers. Shaffer has spent over two decades in tourism and hospitality sales. Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Visit Greater Palm Springs welcomed Foster as director of Palm Springs tourism.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

The recent renovation of InterContinental Berlin perfectly captures the new concept of ‘Luxury of Space’ for meetings and events. Located in Central Berlin, the hotel emphasises its commitment to providing expansive, state-of-the-art facilities for meetings and events.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The travel and tourism industry lost an estimated 62 million jobs globally during the pandemic according to Statista.com. Travel Association CEO Roger Dow to create a Future Work Solutions (FWS) app that will connect pre-qualified workers with hotels and conference centers looking for temporary help that gig workers could provide.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Smart Meetings walked the trade show floor asking people how they help put attendee humanity at the center of event agendas and found that caring for guests is something everyone is focusing on in 2023. Post-Covid, you can’t have people in meetings, meetings, meetings, throw them into the bar and then end the event.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JANUARY 10, 2023

Becca grew up attending tourism conferences and events with her mom where she got the bug to continue to craft her career in the industry. For the past 20 years, she has worked on behalf of the Virginia Tourism official programs in advertising and marketing until she came to Advance Travel and Tourism.

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