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Should Event Planners Boycott Destinations?

Endless Events

In 2019, the events industry had a $1,135.4 Billion valuation, making the events industry well positioned to make an economic impact should planners support social movements like boycotts. But should event planners boycott? . In this episode of Event Brew, the entire Brew Crew shares their thoughts on planners and organizations boycotting venues, hotels, destinations, and more.

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Meetings, Events Return with New Safety Protocols, Operation Standards 

Smart Meetings

The meetings and events industry is returning with a lot of confidence, and face-to-face gatherings are trending upward with the potential to surpass pre-pandemic numbers. For example, this past spring, Georgia International Convention Center (GICC) hosted Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated’s 69th South Atlantic Regional Conference, a gathering of 8,000 members from Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. .

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The Boca Raton – the total resort experience

Pádraic Gilligan

by Pádraic Gilligan, Chief Marketing Officer, SITE & Managing Partner, SoolNua Marketing SITE Classic at Boca Raton – discover 1 The Boca Raton Museum of Art is a cultural treasure of human proportions, not at all intimidating, or full of its own self-importance, the way some galleries can be. It’s located in downtown Boca Raton, Read more » The post The Boca Raton – the total resort experience appeared first on padraicino.

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Event Marketing: 7 Ways To Help Participants Get Buy-in and Justify Conference Attendance

Bizzaboo

Though the world has mostly opened up in the wake of the pandemic, event attendance has yet to recover. . According to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR), the average event held in Q1 2022 had 32.9% fewer attendees than the average event held in Q1 2019. According to CEIR, this downturn is because of a confluence of factors , including the following: .

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COVID-19 Travel Consumer Sentiment Study

TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave

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Essential Event Marketing KPIs to Measure Success

Endless Events

With so many events vying for your attendees’ attention, an intentional, targeted event marketing strategy can be an essential way to help your event stand out from the crowd. With so many strategies deployed in the lead-up to an event, it can often be challenging to measure the impact of your team’s various initiatives in the hopper. Determining a set of event marking KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators , provides an objective, measurable way to use data to track marketing efforts and fin

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Smart Moves in Chicago, Mexico and More

Smart Meetings

Rachel Thompson. Thompson is catering sales and event manager for The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa, Avon, Vail Valley in Colorado. Thompson comes from Sonnenalp Hotel in Vail, where she worked in multiple roles, most recently as its concierge. She also worked as reservations agent and manager in training for conference services and groups sales.

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‘Sustainability MICE Series’ from Hilton

Travel Daily Media

The post ‘Sustainability MICE Series’ from Hilton appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. From left: Freda Liu (Business Broadcast Presenter), Thila Chandran (Marketing Manager for Secai Marche), Logeetha Balakrishnan (BoomGrow’s New Ventures Manager), Marc Jolly (Vice President of Business Development (APME) at Next Gen Foods), Linda Giebing (Hilton’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Champion for Southeast Asia).

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9 LinkedIn Profile Tips For Event Professionals and Organizers

Bizzaboo

LinkedIn is where event professionals gather and share their experiences, deliver hot takes, build connections, and create lasting relationships with like-minded individuals. Not sure where to start or not sure LinkedIn is for you? Getting your profile set up is easier than you think. In this article, you’ll find a list of LinkedIn tips for event professionals to help you get found by the right clients and colleagues.

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JW Marriott’s Scented Supper Made Meeting Memories

Smart Meetings

Dinner pairings, featuring culinary sensations and wine that bring out the best in each other, have become a standard in fine dining. Bonus points if the chef and sommelier come out to explain the meal’s taste and the science behind why it works together. The events team at JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort in Florida wanted to make that experience even more powerful.

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Build Stronger Connections in Indianapolis

Convene by PCMA

Indy’s connected convention campus will grow with the addition of the 800-room Signia Hilton Hotel opening in 2025. Connection is what meetings are all about. It sparks new ideas, new partnerships, new ways forward. As planners, it’s at the heart of what we do. So how do you encourage something that is sometimes fleeting and often intangible? You set the scene for it.

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Evolution of the DMC:Renewing Business Relationships with Deeper Trust, Transparency & Understanding

The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.

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What Kind Of Stay Do You Need? Hotel Stay Length Terms And More

Hotel Engine

When planning a business trip — for yourself or on behalf of a work crew — you have a range of options for your accommodations. What is an “extended stay hotel?”. Should you look for “corporate housing?”. Do you need “temporary housing?”. What’s the difference between “extended stay” and a “regular stay” hotel room? We’ll help you understand your choices when it comes to length of stay, what might work best for your trip and the right search terminology to help you find what you’re looking for.

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Benefits of using a Venue Sourcing Agency

BCD Meetings & Events

Navigating the post-COVID world of events and meetings management is challenging. Demand is high, markets have shifted and positions have changed. No one knows the ins and outs of a post-pandemic market more than an involved Venue Sourcing team. They’re dealing with different markets and searching for venues across the world, discussing patterns, challenges, and wins with their entire team.

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Building a Community: My Experience at Smart Woman Summit

Smart Meetings

Editor’s note : Morgan Saltz is a new editor at Smart Meetings who will be working with the Smart Woman VIP Club to build the community of empowered women who met at Smart Woman Summit in Nashville in August. Following are her observations of the power of bringing female leaders together. The golden Nashville sunset reflected from the downtown skyrises, bounced playfully across Honkytonk Row and landed in a glittering shimmer across the water of the Grand Hyatt Hotel Nashville pool as the guests

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A Fresh Take on Events: New and Upcoming Properties in Greater Lansing

Convene by PCMA

Graduate East Lansing’s décor reflects Spartan spirit and an Up North feel. Photo Credit: D. Mitchell, Graduate East Lansing. Creating new and engaging experiences for your team is key when it comes to event planning. Perhaps your team’s last conference in Greater Lansing was perfect, and you want to return. But how do you keep things fresh? Here are four Greater Lansing properties, new or just around the corner, sure to excite teams with their eyes on the future: Available Now.

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Infographic: The State of In-person Events

Bizzaboo

After a successful — albeit begrudging — era in which virtual events reigned supreme , event professionals are increasingly planning and executing in-person events once again. Case in point? A Bizzabo survey conducted in June and July 2022 revealed that 83% of event organizers plan to host at least three in-person events in 2022, with 24% planning to host at least 10.

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Why a Low Employee Turnover Rate Isn’t Necessarily a Good Thing

ITA Group

Why a Low Employee Turnover Rate Isn’t Necessarily a Good Thing. When it comes to employee recruitment and retention, turnover is definitely bad for business. Right? Not so fast. While a high employee retention rate is often a top priority, an atypically low turnover rate is a good indicator that there may be underlying issues your organization needs to address.

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World Cement Association to host its global conference in Dubai

Travel Daily Media

The post World Cement Association to host its global conference in Dubai appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The World Cement Association has announced its 5th annual conference and exhibition, which will take place from 25th – 28th September 2022, in person at the Emirates Towers, Dubai, UAE. The World Cement Association (WCA) is a not-for-profit company founded in 2016, with offices in London and Beijing.

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Five Amazing Destinations to Consider for Your Next Meeting

Convene by PCMA

Meeting attendees love mixing business with pleasure. So why not plan your next meeting in a must-visit destination? The following five in-demand cities offer unforgettable experiences—and Marriott Bonvoy®properties with plenty of event spaces to meet your needs. Boston charms visitors with its historic buildings and brownstone-lined neighborhoods. Attendees staying at the Westin Copley Place in downtown’s Back Bay can easily explore the city on foot, with historic sites—including the Boston Pub

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13 Best Giveaway Ideas for Events

Eventbrite

It might sound obvious, but most people love to receive free stuff. So if you’re trying to sell more tickets to your event, offering a giveaway item to your attendees is a smart way to convince those on the fence to purchase a ticket — and show up to claim their swag. Read on to […].

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Madrid travels to Chicago & New York City to reinforce its touristic positioning in North America

Travel Daily News

The Madrid Tourism Board organized a roadshow in Chicago and New York City, successfully connecting 20 Spanish companies with more than 180 Potential Partners in North American.

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Want Engaged Attendees? First, Do Your Homework

MeetingsNet

Three planning veterans discuss how content should drive the host organization’s meeting agenda, not the other way around. Meeting the challenge of attracting more people to events and having them come back for more comes down to strategic content development. That was the message from three marketing-event veterans on a September 22 webinar hosted by the American Marketing Association and Notified, a cloud-based provider of event-platform and -measurement tools.

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Junk Kouture — Turning Trash Into Fashion Treasure

Convene by PCMA

Once Junk Kouture — a competition for students to create wearable fashion made from recycled materials — went on tour, team members realized they needed to create a world final, “an Olympics of creativity.”. Troy Armour is CEO of Northern Ireland-based entertainment, media, and tech company Patral Group, as well as CEO of the consultancy Trojan Technologies.

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How To Increase Your Attendees’ Engagement Rate

Eventtia

Engagement at your event is just as, if not arguably, even more important than simply attracting more attendees. After all, the number of attendees alone shouldn’t be the end goal of planning and hosting your event, and if your attendees are not properly engaged, you won’t be able to effectively achieve these goals, be it selling your products/services, generating leads, building brand awareness, and more.

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ONE Conference to be centrepiece of The Hague’s Cybersecurity Week

Travel Daily News

ONE Conference is organised by The City of The Hague, National Cyber Security Centre and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands from 18 to 19 October 2022, at the World Forum.

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Pros and cons of consulting for large organizations

Conferences that Work

I’ve consulted for more than a thousand organizations. My clients include branches of the U.S. Government, large international agencies, and for-profit and non-profit companies. Over the last four decades, I’ve found the size of a client’s organization affects many aspects of my work. Here are some of the pros and cons of consulting for large organizations.

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Pandemic-Caused Changes Strengthen Chicago Business Group

Convene by PCMA

A recent in-person Executives’ Club of Chicago event included a discussion around The No Club’s theme of women doing dead-end work. The award for speediest pivot to digital events after the COVID-19 lockdown should go to Executives’ Club of Chicago. “A lot of offices shut down that Friday and on the following Tuesday, we did a virtual program,” said Margaret Mueller, president and CEO of Exec Club, whose members are leaders at Chicago’s largest companies as well as civic and academic insti

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How To Create an Attractive Event Agenda for Your Attendees

Eventtia

Creating an event agenda can be a daunting task, especially for first-timers that don’t know where to start. However, having a well-written event agenda is one of the key factors in ensuring an event’s success. It will especially help in event logistics to keep your resource usage on track. On the other hand, it can also help event planners in ensuring optimal attendee experience.

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Qatar Airways to host Global Aviation Industry World Financial Symposium in Doha

Travel Daily News

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference will focus on ‘Reshaping Airline Resilience’, following the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ITA Group Acquires Experiential-Learning Company

MeetingsNet

London-based NKD increases ITA Group’s headcount by a third and adds greatly to its global reach. After launching ITA Group Europe in early 2021, ITA Group has made another move to broaden its global footprint. The West Des Moines, Iowa-based company has acquired London-based experiential-learning company NKD. NDK adds 50 employees to the ITA team, as well as an associate network of NKD-trained consultants across five continents.

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Dealing With a Complaint? These 3 Words Will Help

Convene by PCMA

When people feel heard, author Dan Pink says, “a lot of times, the anger and resentment can dissipate, and a lot of times in talking it through, people come to a solution on their own.”. There are just three words we need to say to avoid overreacting when we are confronted by someone with a problem or a complaint, says New York Times best-selling author Dan Pink in his latest Pinkcast videocast newsletter.

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How To Build A Complete Marketing Strategy In 2022

Eventtia

Source. A marketing strategy is your overall game plan to reach your marketing goals. It entails the process involved in achieving your marketing objectives, including lead generation, sales conversion, customer retention, etc. Among other benefits, a marketing strategy guides the business’s decisions and helps them achieve their goals. Since it is essential to every business’s success, it’s best to know exactly how to create an effective plan to help you outline your business’s objectives and a

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‘Yuva Tourism Clubs’ can be a gamechanger: Reddy

Travel Daily Media

The post ‘Yuva Tourism Clubs’ can be a gamechanger: Reddy appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Union Tourism Minister Kishan Reddy urged that all states share and adopt best practices to boost the tourism sector. He was speaking at the three days National Conference of State Tourism Ministers at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.

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Convention-Rideshare Concept Benefits Attendees, Sponsors

MeetingsNet

A new company has launched in Las Vegas that provides sponsored transportation to convention attendees. Pop-Up Rideshare officially launched in Las Vegas this week with a unique business model: It’s selling sponsorship opportunities to companies that want to target attendees at a specific conference. While event attendees get free transportation, the sponsor gets leads and exposure.

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10 Cities Near Anaheim to Buy or Rent in this Year

Redfin

Anaheim, California, which is located in Orange County, is best known for its family-friendly attractions like Disneyland Resort, as well as its sports teams, the Angels and the Ducks. Anaheim offers its residents a good mixture of urban and suburban living and a wide range of neighborhoods. The city is located near many attractions, green spaces, and cultural activities that make the city such a fast-growing area.

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15 Virtual Party Ideas That Everyone Will Want to Attend

Eventbrite

Most of us know how to throw a backyard barbecue or a Friday-afternoon happy hour with our co-workers, but organizing a virtual party involves a different set of skills. With more people working remotely and realizing the convenience of gathering virtually, online parties are an increasingly popular way of connecting with loved ones, hanging out […].

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