Endless Events
MAY 31, 2022
Between the brain drain in the events industry and labor shortages, the event technology labor has transformed dramatically. And not for the better: event planners are finding it increasingly hard to hire reliable and experienced vendors at a reasonable price. Those who have survived the harsh conditions of the pandemic are fully booked and expensive.
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.
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ETC Corporate
JUNE 1, 2022
More than 30 countries in Europe have signed up to the UNWTO-ETC Datalab to share knowledge and best practices with the aim of enhancing tourism competitiveness and supporting the recovery of the sector across the region. The DataLab network, led by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the European Travel Commission (ETC) will provide a unique platform for sharing best practices.
The MICE Blog
JUNE 3, 2022
Incentives are the most exciting part of the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibition) business. The most vivid pre-COVID memories that I have of incentive trips are from experiencing destinations where I got to know their hidden gems, interact with locals and learn about their craft or their culture, and network with other participants. Memories and experiences that are created at a destination outlive any other type or event and experience; for me at least.
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”.
Endless Events
JUNE 1, 2022
In today’s Whiteboard Wednesday , we tackle the question: What is an event chatbot? Chatbots and digital assistants have become our trusted companions at home and at work. They help us manage our schedules, fulfill our requests, and instantly answer questions we might have about the weather, the news, – and events. In this 12-minute video, Brandt Krueger goes over the event chatbot basics.
Smart Meetings
JUNE 1, 2022
“Know thy audience!” urges Dahlia El Gazzar, DES, altMBA, EWD, and Tech Evangelist & CEO at DAHLIA+Agency. Coming off her session at the Event Leadership Institute’s Innovation and Engagement Summit, we connected with Dahlia about how to maximize virtual event engagement today. When it comes to engagement success, “You need to start by diving into what your audience really likes, then dig a bit deeper to uncover what life is like around them,” says Dahlia.
MICE Travel Today brings together the best content for MICE professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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.
Smart Meetings
JUNE 2, 2022
Editor’s Note : Smart Meetings reached out to San Diego State University alumnus Anthony Bollotta to discuss the benefits of furthering your career via education. . Like every one of us who somehow found their way into the meeting and event industry lightyears before the fundamentals of our work were formatted into curriculum-based certification and undergraduate programs, I was on my own to determine how to utilize my skills and learnings to best support clients.
Special Events
JUNE 3, 2022
With a solid operational foundation in place, you'll feel well equipped to scale your business and take action toward your goals.
TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave
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.
Stova
JUNE 1, 2022
Today, we’re going to share some of our favorite strategies to reduce your event attrition rate. It’s a phrase that strikes fear into the heart of many event planners. Event attrition rate is an industry phrase that refers to the percentage of people who register to attend an event but don’t show up.
Smart Meetings
JUNE 2, 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. Delta Cuts Ribbon on Tech-filled Terminal C at LaGuardia. Delta Airlines has cut the red ribbon on its new LaGuardia Airport (LGA) Terminal C, part of a $4 billion spend on improvements at the airport, including the airline’s largest Delta Sky Club.
Special Events
MAY 31, 2022
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The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.
Convene by PCMA
JUNE 3, 2022
The JUNO platform and mobile app are your home for PCMA EduCon 2020. You’ve made it to New Orleans for PCMA EduCon 2022 at the Hyatt Regency, or you’ve registered to participate digitally. In either case, have you completed two important tasks to help make your experience everything you want it to be? If you haven’t, take a little time this morning to fill out your Experience Profile and to download the JUNO Live app, where you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling EduCon.
Eventbrite
MAY 31, 2022
When events are your business, numbers count. Last year, our creators reached 83 million unique buyers through Eventbrite. That’s an incredible opportunity to tap into new audiences and sell more tickets. And produce more events. In the first quarter of 2022, paid events per Eventbrite creator averaged 3.2 events for the first quarter, compared to […].
Smart Meetings
MAY 31, 2022
When John Walsh, general manager of The National Conference Center, started preparing the legacy Leesburg, Virginia, meetings venue for its newest clients, he knew he was in for a life and palate-changing experience. This year, one of the country’s largest and most comprehensive conference centers (originally planned as a Xerox learning campus) became a partner with the U.S. government as part of Operation Allies Welcome (OAW).
Special Events
MAY 31, 2022
Now more than ever, event organizers must up their game in order to cash in on this post-pandemic era. Here’s how.
Convene by PCMA
JUNE 1, 2022
Meeting planners face greater challenges today with the continued focus on safety and the desire for outdoor gatherings that provide fresh air and room to spread out. Greater Fort Lauderdale offers just that, with varied opportunities that make the most of the region’s beautiful weather, views, and landscapes. Here are a few of them. Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center Outdoor Plaza and Amphitheater.
EHL Insights
MAY 30, 2022
A focus piece that resumes the challenges of independent hotels in their CSR journey. In a recent study of 14 independent hotels in France and Switzerland, we focused on two questions: What are the key drivers that push smaller independent hotels towards CSR adoption? And, conversely, what are the main barriers they need to overcome?
Smart Meetings
MAY 31, 2022
After two years of testing streaming platforms, meeting professionals are asking for more comprehensive solutions and a number of event technology companies have risen to the challenge. We rounded up some of the recent announcements you need to know now to move ahead empowered to deliver regardless of what emergency hits the headlines in the coming months.
MeetingsNet
JUNE 3, 2022
The meetings market will be central to the recovery of urban hotels. Here, two industry consultants dish to city-hotel sales executives on why securing meetings business is so critical, with numbers that could give negotiating insight to planners. There’s been a lot of chatter on meetings-industry social-media sites lately about the surprisingly high rates hotels are asking for guest rooms connected to business events.
Convene by PCMA
MAY 31, 2022
The 2022 SHRM Talent Conference & Expo took place April 10-13 in Aurora, Colorado and online, and emphasized how HR professionals’ actions — big and small — have a ripple effect on the lives of others. (Photo by Chris Williams). America is facing a workplace mental health crisis, with burnout, exhaustion, and hopelessness more common among workers than ever before.
Travel Daily News
JUNE 2, 2022
Located in the heart of the city, the full-service lifestyle property will mark the first Hyatt hotel in Scotland and second Hyatt Centric hotel in the United Kingdom.
Smart Meetings
MAY 30, 2022
Plan with Confidence. All across Baltimore, former industrial zones and historic buildings are getting new life as a wave of development and innovative reuse sweeps the city. From new waterfront neighborhoods to an entertainment zone connecting our stadium complex and casino, these projects are set to create thousands of new jobs and experiences galore.
Eventtia
MAY 31, 2022
If you’re looking for a powerhouse way to engage your customers, generate leads, and build your brand, then hosting a series of killer events is the way to go. And, a majority of marketers agree. In fact, 83% of B2B marketers are heavily interested in events, and 80% of marketers believe events and event marketing are critical to their company’s success.
Redfin
JUNE 1, 2022
Prices are up almost everywhere – from food, to gas, to home prices. In February 2012, the nationwide median sale price of a house in the U.S. was $160,000. More than ten years later, that number is up to a record $412,000. Homes in markets like Seattle, WA , regularly face bidding wars, while nationwide, nearly 6,000 have sold for $100,000 or more above asking price this year.
Travel Daily News
MAY 31, 2022
GED 2022 celebrates the role of exhibitions in accelerating the pace of economic recovery.
Skift Meetings
JUNE 2, 2022
While the pandemic wreaked havoc on the event industry, companies that provide childcare at meetings are among those who suffered the most from the lack of live events. Those still in business say that demand is booming again, but staffing shortages and soaring costs on everything from wages to shipping mean that childcare services are much more of a big-ticket budget item than before.
ITA Group
JUNE 2, 2022
The Value of Implementing Gamification vs. Points Rewards Programs. What drives motivation and behavior is a sense of recognition and competition. Savvy incentive programs address this by adding gamification to their strategy to help increase engagement, create a sense of community and boost brand loyalty. These programs often use points as rewards to facilitate gamification. .
Redfin
JUNE 3, 2022
Living in the Sunshine State, as Florida is nicknamed, is a popular choice among retirees and families. The state boasts year-round warm weather, beautiful beaches, and many opportunities for recreation and entertainment perfect for anyone. From the bustling city life of Miami to the laid-back atmosphere of the Gulf Coast, there’s something for everyone in Florida.
Travel Daily News
MAY 29, 2022
The survey has also revealed the top five challenges facing travel tech right now with economic uncertainty remaining in poll position (52 per cent voted it top).
National Association For Catering ane Events
JUNE 3, 2022
Congratulations to Indya Willis for receiving a NACE Black Caucus Pay it Forward Scholarship! Indya Willis is from West Palm Beach, Florida and currently lives in Dallas, TX and serves on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Chapter.
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