Pádraic Gilligan
APRIL 25, 2024
by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE More questions than answers Last year at SITE we celebrated the 50th anniversary of our formation in 1973. One takeaway for me after a golden year of celebrating incentive travel excellence was the realisation that, in 50 years, incentive travel hasn’t really changed that.
Smart Meetings
APRIL 25, 2024
The secret to planning a not-boring virtual event might be to pull a George Costanza. In an infamous Seinfeld episode, the character decides to do the opposite of what his gut tells him to see if his luck changes. Entrepreneur Jay Schwedelson, who started the wildly popular Guru Media Hub virtual conferences in 2021 to engage with marketers, thinks a similar approach can turn around digital events.
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MeetingsNet
APRIL 25, 2024
New rules take some uncertainty out of the air-travel experience for on-the-road meeting professionals and their attendees. Here’s what’s new. Delayed and canceled flights, lost bags, wonky WiFi: You can’t police these travel hassles out of existence, but standards can be set for how airlines will deal with them when they happen. Right now, U.S. airlines set their own standards for what kind of flight problems warrant a refund, when and how refunds are issued, when baggage is considered lost, an
Smart Meetings
APRIL 25, 2024
Time for a confession. Between 2021 and 2022, I committed the error of typing the phrase “the future is hybrid” not once, but seven times and even titled an early 2023 story “ The Future is Hybrid-ish.” Mea culpa. That was back in the day when the streaming tech neighborhood of IMEX America sprawled across the middle of the show floor, and VCs were throwing money at companies with names like TeeVid, Eventory and ShoFlo.
Join us and connect with experts at the 3rd International Conference on Heart and Cardiovascular Diseases”, scheduled on May 05-06, 2025 in Dubai, UAE with the theme of “Novel Progression Towards the Heart and Cardiovascular Research”.
Special Events
APRIL 25, 2024
Strategies to make the budget-talk process simple, straightforward, and stress-free
Stova
APRIL 25, 2024
It’s no secret that some marketers believe that email marketing has lost its effectiveness. They believe that inboxes are simply too full, and they can’t break through the noise. If you’ve heard the same, don’t fall victim. Email marketing is just as effective as it’s always been, offering an incredible ROI of $36 for every $1 spent.
MICE Travel Today brings together the best content for MICE professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
EHL Insights
APRIL 25, 2024
In recent years, the topic of well-being has become increasingly ubiquitous. A report by McKinsey (2024) finds, surprisingly, that millennials and Gen Z are spending more on health and wellness than older consumers. According to the Global Wellness Institute (2023), the wellness economy reached $5.6 trillion in 2023 and is forecast to soar to $8.5 trillion by 2027.
Travel Daily Media
APRIL 25, 2024
The post GBTA joins Net Zero Carbon Events initiative as a supporter appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Representative Image The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world’s premier business travel and meetings trade organisation and the voice of the industry, has joined Net Zero Carbon Events (NZCE), the worldwide events industry initiative to address climate change as a supporter of the campaign.
EHL Insights
APRIL 25, 2024
In less than two decades, short-term rentals have thoroughly transformed the hospitality industry, wresting 15% market share from hotels. From a feel-good pioneer of the sharing economy to a $100bn behemoth, Airbed and Breakfast, better known as Airbnb , has revolutionized hospitality from its beginnings in 2007 — creating a whole new market in the process.
Travel Daily Media
APRIL 25, 2024
The post Heading to BRED Abu Dhabi? Here is what else is happening around Yas Bay Waterfront appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. The eagerly anticipated BRED festival is finally here and we can’t hide our excitement. Whether you are heading to the concerts or just happen to be in town, you are in luck as Yas Bay Waterfront’s mix of homegrown and international restaurants are pulling out all the stops, offering incredible deals throughout the week to coincide with the neocultural
TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave
MPI
APRIL 25, 2024
In their 2024 World Education Congress (WEC) session, “The Battle Between Baby Boomers and Gen Z,” Michael Owen and Taylor Smith take us along on a journey of multigenerational awareness. In this Q&A, Smith provides some early insights on the subject and what participants can expect.
Interface Tourism Spain
APRIL 25, 2024
How to Organize a Trip with AI? All the news Back to newsroom Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous aspects of daily life, including how we plan and organize our trips. This trend has transformed the tourism industry in various ways, offering travelers a more personalized, efficient, and satisfying experience. AI is an easy-to-use tool that fosters convenience for travelers when organizing a getaway.
Achieve Incentives
APRIL 25, 2024
Travel incentive contest programs are the key to ignite the engine driving your business. Don’t just take it from us — let’s dive into the success story of one of our valued clients.
Interface Tourism Spain
APRIL 25, 2024
How to Organize a Trip with AI? All the news Back to newsroom Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous aspects of daily life, including how we plan and organize our trips. This trend has transformed the tourism industry in various ways, offering travelers a more personalized, efficient, and satisfying experience. AI is an easy-to-use tool that fosters convenience for travelers when organizing a getaway.
The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.
MPI
APRIL 25, 2024
Mental wellness and group dynamics have changed over the last few years. Career strategists and coaches Vimari Roman and Rachelle Stone address some of these developments ahead of their 2024 World Education Congress (WEC) session, “Building Mental Fitness: The Path to Team Success.
Smart Meetings
APRIL 25, 2024
Calling all bookworms, poets, dreamers and creatives Writers and novelists have long found refuge in hotels: as a space to write, to find inspiration or simply to get away from the day-to-day and refresh the mind. The literary hotels you’ll find below are go-to’s for those who love literature and art in all its forms. Each space has seen iconic achievements from celebrated creatives, and they all offer space for events.
MPI
APRIL 25, 2024
I began volunteering for MPI on my local chapter board in July 2014. Having returned to my home country Finland two years prior, joining the board helped quickly expanded my network across the industry.
Convene by PCMA
APRIL 25, 2024
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) held its 43rd Annual Pregnancy Meeting, Feb. 6-11, at Moscone West. In March, urologist Ashley Winter took to X (formerly Twitter) to share that she wouldn’t be attending the American Urological Association’s 2024 annual meeting, May 3 – 6, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas. “My husband & I are trying for our 2nd child.
MeetingsNet
APRIL 25, 2024
As Congress debates the use of facial identification for airport security, planners should know how that technology differs from the one that measures attendee engagement during sessions. On April 25, the U.S. Travel Association came out forcefully against an amendment to a bill before Congress that reauthorizes and funds the Federal Aviation Administration—an amendment that U.S.
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