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Top Business Travel Trends Coming in 2024

Smart Meetings

Public safety expert Frank Harrison, who serves as regional security director, Americas at World Travel Protection , predicts that three central trends will shape business travel in 2024: Remote work, a focus on sustainability and budget constraints. Remote Work & Bleisure Travel Remote work, once rare, has become commonplace.

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Canada Calls: Event Planning Paradise

Smart Meetings

Cost-effective, accessible and trendy Are you a stateside planner looking for a change of scenery? Canada, our neighbor to the north, packs a hefty offering for event planners looking to entertain and entice guests. Big Meetings Love Canada Following Covid-19 pandemic, Canada is seeing the return of U.S. association customers.

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Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business

Smart Meetings

We’re also seeing some ‘return to work’ celebration events, with companies looking to re-energize employees returning to an office environment after working remote for more than a year. We are primarily hosting hybrid meetings right now. of meeting space. We are booking small corporate meetings and associations for 2022.

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The Heart of Gathering: Lessons from the Fourth of July

Smart Meetings

Meetings, on the other hand, are often far more over the top, with coordinated entertainment, specific programming, thought-out menus, you name it. As New York City-based planner Jaclyn Bernstein, president and owner of Empire Force Events , says, “We, as event producers, sometimes go out of our way to outdo ourselves.

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Virtual Event Possibilities: How Far Can You Go?

Endless Events

These are only a few of the doubts we know event planners have. “A lot of people experience virtual events on a daily basis in their office and corporate meetings already”, says Andrew. Where do I even begin? What are the limits? But here at Endless, we love nothing better than to educate. Budgeting Virtual Events.

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Why Unique Conference Venues are Trending and How to Make Yours Stand Out

Social Tables

For busy planners or repeat event organizers, booking extraordinary venues is a terrific way to mix things and prevent events from getting stale. Unique conference venues attract the attention of planners who want to mix things up and— Generate event buzz. How do you incorporate remote meeting tools?

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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

Allen is a meeting scientist. The University of Utah professor and author of Suddenly Virtual: Making Remote Meetings Work is also director of the Center for Meeting Effectiveness. From a meetings perspective, what we do in Covid lockdown doesn’t stay in Covid lockdown,” he says. “I And most likely will not.

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