Endless Events
MAY 20, 2022
Let’s talk about one of the most dreaded subjects in the events industry: the hybrid event budget. As an amalgamation of in-person and virtual events, hybrid events are complex, versatile, and hard to budget for. While they are typically more expensive than in-person events, there are also many ways event planners can save money with a hybrid event and see a higher event ROI.
Smart Meetings
MAY 6, 2022
No one really knows what events will look like in a post Covid-19 world and it’s difficult to see how things will pan out over the coming year. The most recent seasons have taught us that venues with the ability to quickly adapt to their environment and their experiential offerings were the most resilient in a time of peak uncertainty. The reality is likely that for the foreseeable future, most attendees will be split between those willing and able to attend in person and those who cannot and wi
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Dana Communications
MAY 10, 2022
Influencers were once the go-to for brand endorsements—consumers saw them as authentic and trustworthy compared to celebrities. But now, influencers have become so popular that many are seen as celebrities in their own right, and consumers aren’t responding the same way as they used to. Enter micro-influencers. There’s some debate about the follower count for these content creators, but the general consensus is anywhere from 1K-50K.
ETC Corporate
MAY 11, 2022
Domestic travel is projected to make a complete recovery in 2022, while international arrivals to Europe are forecast to be 30% below 2019 volumes Western Europe is expected to be the best performing region globally this year, albeit 24% below 2019 levels Due to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, Eastern Europe’s recovery has been pushed back to 2025 The most recent edition of the ‘European Tourism.
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”.
Social Tables
MAY 13, 2022
As event planners worldwide shifted strategies to meet the ever-changing needs caused by COVID-19, virtual and hybrid events skyrocketed. Even as in-person events return, many businesses and event planners plan to keep the virtual event trend alive. With virtual and hybrid events becoming a standard part of industry operations, event planners and organizers are on the hunt for virtual event engagement ideas that will keep audiences invested.
The MICE Blog
MAY 2, 2022
Good news for the events industry – live events are back, as most countries no longer have strict COVID-19 restrictions. Event planners who have been out of work for two years can now be back on the road doing what they love and taking their creativity to the next level. Two years of pandemic restrictions have taught the events industry that it’s resilient.
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Smart Meetings
MAY 31, 2022
Editor’s Note : As part of Back Light, a series of articles sharing illuminating insider observations, we asked Geoffrey Wellen, chief customer care officer of 6Connex f or lessons learned from two years of virtual and hybrid events. If there is a silver lining to the pandemic for the meetings industry, it’s this: The pandemic accelerated the evolutions of meetings.
Dana Communications
MAY 24, 2022
Now, perhaps more than ever before, your visitors are steering clear of cookie-cutter trips. Rather than simply being tourists who tread the beaten path, they’re increasingly demanding to be travelers and to enjoy authentic, experiential opportunities to interact with their destinations and the locals. Even when on the move, wherever they roam, they seek ways to stay in the heart of a neighborhood—and to live like locals themselves.
ETC Corporate
MAY 25, 2022
Intention for long-haul travel remains weak in key markets amid worsening economic prospects, COVID-19 and geopolitical shocks Brazil is the only market where the travel sentiment increased significantly compared to a year ago COVID-19 concerns and high travel-related costs are the main deterrents to long-haul travel in summer 2022 According to the latest Long-Haul Travel Barometer (LHTB) 2/2022.
Eventtia
MAY 11, 2022
One of the biggest challenges when running an event is the planning stage: even organizing a fairly small and seemingly simple event can be a very challenging task with all the different details to consider and adjust. If this is your first time planning an event, chances are, knowing where to get started can be daunting, but fear not as you’ve come to the right place.
TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave
Special Events
MAY 23, 2022
Here are 5 tips to help planners create great hybrid events.
Endless Events
MAY 12, 2022
As things currently stand in the events industry, we’re planning events in 2022 as if the COVID-19 pandemic never existed. The mask mandates are gone and COVID compliance talk has all but disappeared. In-person events are back in all their glory. And to the Event Brew hosts, they often look identical to 2019. But is that a good thing? According to this episode, not so much.
Smart Meetings
MAY 12, 2022
While 2022 is in full swing, the meetings and event industry is continuing to navigate best practices regarding safe meetings and social gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic. One trend that we are continuing to see is that of outdoor meetings. Now, more than ever, planners are opting for an outdoor setting for much if not all of their programs. While I expect this trend to continue to rise in popularity, I am sharing my top tips to help ensure an unforgettable outdoor event this year.
Conferences that Work
MAY 30, 2022
Air quality has a significant effect on human health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become an especially critical issue. Why? Because COVID-19 spreads via aerosols that can float in the air for minutes to hours. Although there is currently no commercially available way to measure the presence of COVID-19 in air, I’ve written about how measuring carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentrations can act as a useful proxy for COVID-19 infection risk.
The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.
ETC Corporate
MAY 20, 2022
Issues addressed include impacts for European destinations driven from the ongoing pandemic, conflict in Ukraine and inflation ETC keeps sustainability front of mind with trailblazing Industry Forum on Sustainable Tourism Practices Ukraine’s tourism agency attends latest ETC General Meeting to shine light on the devasting impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on Ukraine’s travel sector The heads of.
MeetingsNet
MAY 9, 2022
One hike will help fund a convention center rebuild, while another will help build a new football stadium. But one city is actually looking to reduce its levy. Late April was a popular time for revisiting the hotel tax in several meetings-heavy cities. First, Nashville got the go-ahead from Tennessee state legislators to raise its hotel-motel tax by one percent, which will bring the total to six percent once Governor Bill Lee signs the bill.
Special Events
MAY 20, 2022
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Endless Events
MAY 16, 2022
In this week’s Event Tech Podcast episode, Will and Brandt discuss Peloton because, as it turns out, their workouts make for a great hybrid event case study. They claim that event planners should take note. After all, the world-famous exercise equipment company has managed to grow a strong community through its content delivery, social media presence, and audience engagement.
Smart Meetings
MAY 26, 2022
Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. Monkeypox Takes the Front Page But Are Covid Rates the Real Story? This week, the CDC raised their assessment of travel risk for monkeypox from level one (practice usual precautions) to level two (practice enhanced precautions).
Conferences that Work
MAY 16, 2022
I recently ran a workshop , hosted by the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Society of Association Professionals (CSAE), on the design of participation-rich events. Here are the lessons I learned from this online workshop. [Note: This event was a workshop , not a presentation. Sessions are often advertised as “workshops” that aren’t.
ETC Corporate
MAY 19, 2022
Today, the European Travel Commission (ETC) reached a decision to invite the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine (SATD) to join the organisation with a complimentary three-year membership. The decision was taken during the 103rd General Meeting that is taking place on 18-20 May in Ljubljana, hosted by the Slovenian Tourist Board. This meeting brought together CEOs of national tourism.
EHL Insights
MAY 22, 2022
What is the Hospitality Industry? The hospitality industry is a large subsection within the service industry and is comprised of four main areas : Food & beverage, travel & tourism, lodging, and recreation. As examples, the F&B category includes restaurants, bars and food trucks; travel & tourism covers different forms of transportation and travel agencies; lodging varies from hotel resorts to hostels; recreation refers to leisure activities such as sports, wellness and entertain
Special Events
MAY 11, 2022
Controlling chaos at an event requires incredibly detailed processes.
Endless Events
MAY 5, 2022
Event technology has finally become an integral part of our event strategies. It’s taken us many years, even though many event profs have been preaching about numerous benefits of event technology for ages. The pandemic sped up the adoption of technology and software solutions in the events industry. After all, virtual and hybrid events fully depend on technology.
Smart Meetings
MAY 23, 2022
We’ve all made the shift to virtual meetings—because we had to. We were riding the bike while building it, and despite some early stumbles, most of us have mastered the basics. Now we’re onto the next challenge: making the virtual event a great online experience. The competition is fierce: a barrage of content from a multitude of channels all vying for your attention.
Conferences that Work
MAY 9, 2022
Picture the renowned senior consultant breezing into the gleaming corporate HQ of Fortune 500 MegaCorp, for a well-paid gig advising C-suite executives. Now, picture the newly-hired janitor who spends their evenings mopping & vacuuming floors, cleaning restrooms, and emptying trash and recycling cans in a small MegaCorp branch office. Who has more power, the consultant or the janitor?
MeetingsNet
MAY 6, 2022
The latest planner sentiments gathered by AV and production firm Encore also reveal that they expect to host smaller in-person audiences with smaller budgets versus 2019, while focusing more on attendee engagement and networking. In a recent survey of 989 full-time and ad-hoc event coordinators by AV and production firm Encore, 52 percent say that their meetings in the second half of 2022 will be exclusively in person, while 25 percent say they will be hybrid and 23 percent say they will be full
Convene by PCMA
MAY 31, 2022
BlockTexx co-founder Graham Ross is unlocking the value of unwanted textiles to help future-proof the fashion industry. Graham Ross believes no piece of clothing should end up in landfill. It was this thinking, and a global movement to address overconsumption and overproduction, that drove him and co-founder Adrian Jones to establish BlockTexx, the world’s first commercial-scale textile resource recovery facility.
Special Events
MAY 31, 2022
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Endless Events
MAY 26, 2022
While the metaverse is not a fully-fledged event trend just yet, there is no denying that metaverse events will become increasingly more popular in the years to come. They might not be the one and only future of events, but event planners should nonetheless keep their pulse on it – and the Brew Crew gives some compelling arguments as to why that is.
Smart Meetings
MAY 20, 2022
“You have to know what you’re trying to accomplish before you even try and think about doing the technology,” urged Brandt Krueger, technical producer, owner of Event Technology Consulting and Smart Meetings’ event tech correspondent, during the Smart Chat Live! webinar, “Top Event Tech Tips From a Year of Change.”. With Tess Vismale, award-winning Event Rescuer and founder and CEO of iSocialExecution Inc., the conversation focused on attendee questions about what we’ve learned, how to inc
Business Traveler USA
MAY 2, 2022
As the world yawns out of hibernation, there may be a short cut one can take along this road to unexpected wellness and joy. A mark on the map, for those in the know, should be a stop in sunny Los Cabos where relaxation and calm await amid tantalizing resorts and sublime wellness treatments for body, mind and soul. Dream Trips Become Reality in Los Cabos.
MeetingsNet
MAY 23, 2022
While it could be a mostly symbolic gesture from top business leaders, news from the Davos conference might represent something truly meaningful in the realm of sustainable events—especially given the results of a recent business-traveler survey. For the exclusive World Economic Forum taking place from May 22 to 26 in Davos, Switzerland, organizers have encouraged their European attendees to travel to and from the event by train rather than by plane.
Convene by PCMA
MAY 16, 2022
Attendees at PCMA Convening Leaders 2022 in Las Vegas take part in the fun run. Many respondents to our April Recovery Dashboard survey said they deal with stress through physical activities like running, yoga, and walking. (Jacob Slaton Photography). We’ve been following the changing moods of planners and suppliers throughout the pandemic — from when vaccinations were first on the horizon and then well distributed to the surges of two contagious COVID variants — in our monthly and bimonthly COV
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