Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll Always Have Paris…Until Beijing Takes Over A new study from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) shows Paris is the world’s most powerful “city destination” with almost $36 billion USD in 2022 in terms of direct GDP contribution to the city, but it also reveals that Paris will cede its place to up-and-coming Beijing by 2032.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

People are happy getting back to reclaim their life and their joy and people are traveling. Travel is something people are prioritizing. While these drawbacks have not yet put a dent in leisure travel demand, if this trend continues, travelers will reach a breaking point and some airline brands may be damaged.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2025

Global meeting planners are exceeding expectations. Brand USA, a public-private partnership focused on increasing international travel, reported that in 2026, the U.S. is on track to welcome 90 million visitors one year ahead of the goal outlined by the National Travel and Tourism Strategy report. In Washington, D.C.,

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

In search of comfortable-yet-affordable accommodations for your next meeting or event? Planning a meeting in the UK or Ireland? As always, Smart Travel is here to bring you the latest must-read travel and tourism news. City Express by Marriott is gearing up to offer options in four new markets. just became easier.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Traveling for a conference is no longer an excuse to abandon your mental health and physical well-being goals. In fact, according to a trio of meeting professional experts, taking care of yourself is even more important when you are the one charged with caring for your attendees. The same thing should be true for a meeting.”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Take a moment to improve your mental health and your meetings will reap the rewards Meeting professionals are some of the busiest people out there. If you’re a hardworking meeting professional, chances are that you experience stress more than you’d like to. For many, being busy means being stressed. A little stress is fine.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2025

Megan Conway Megan Conway, Travel Portland Travel Portland has named Conway as president and CEO, promoting her from her earlier role as chief strategy officer. Mauricio Patino Mauricio Patino, Velas Resorts Patino joins the team at Velas Resorts as regional sales director for meetings and incentives. region at Visit Denver.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2023

Phone a Friend To help younger, less experienced meeting planners within Soundings, Judge fostered a system she dubbed: Phone a Friend. “We What we do is we’ve started to use our more experienced talent, so senior meeting planners who also like to give back and grow in the industry.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Travel Association Says Airlines in the United States Are Sub-Par In a new quarterly press conference launched today , the U.S. Travel President and CEO, Geoff Freeman. Travel National Chair and Hilton President and CEO Chris Nassetta. Freeman was joined on the presentation by incoming U.S. Other issues that U.S.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

Food, lodging and programming are critical factors for any meeting. But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. Meeting planners are the leaders of event teams. Here’s the schedule. we may ask.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2023

United Adds New Non-Stops to 100+ International Cities This Summer to Meet ‘Soaring Overseas Travel Demand’ United Airlines has announced that it will fly to 114 different international cities this summer and has expanded its flying by 25% versus last year to meet the sharp increase in demand for travel outside of the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2023

In what may be a ground-changing move for hotels and meeting planners doing business in Florida, Brightline, the only intercity, eco-friendly high-speed rail in the U.S. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: Brightline Adds Orlando appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Partnering with agencies can reduce cost and save time In many scenarios, planners have limited resources on hand. That often means seeking out third-party agencies and independent planners to attain their goals and create a stellar event. According to Crosby this amounts to 20-30% of what a planner could have spent.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. So that’s the problem.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

Travel and meeting risk trainer offers insights for the future The news Friday morning that an update from the software protection company CrowdStrike crashed travel, emergency, hospital and banking systems all over the globe, was a reminder of the risks of planning events in a highly networked world.

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The MICE Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

To promote sustainable travel within the city, free public transport tickets are provided for attendees who book their hotel stays through Stuttgart Marketing. This setup reduces transport emissions and encourages attendees to use sustainable travel options. Mercedes-Benz Museum The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an extraordinary event venue.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

Travel and meeting risk trainer offers insights for the future The news Friday morning that an update from the software protection company CrowdStrike crashed travel, emergency, hospital and banking systems all over the globe, was a reminder of the risks of planning events in a highly networked world.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Let’s learn more. Her father had cerebral palsy, which brought its own needs.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 26, 2024

With a host of exciting new hotels slated to open throughout the next 12 months, plus some major strategic visions in the works at major brands, the opportunities for every style meeting are boundless. The opening of this new property in Tokyo recognizes the continued desire for international travel made accessible.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By working with Visit Bellevue, the planners for Lenovo Tech World 2024 show the transformative power of partnership. Lenovo Tech World is the global technology company’s annual event, and as events at this level go, it’s an enormous undertaking for the planners organizing it. Having this kind of advocacy is completely helpful.”

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Endless Events

MARCH 21, 2022

The competition among event platforms is stiff these days, so event planners must understand what makes a certain platform stand out from the rest. Remo is a map-based virtual event platform that has been building events and meetings since 2018. How do the floor plans work and how does an event planner get started?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Experts weigh in on what needs to change to work together better Editor’s Note : Hospitality sales consultant Steve Steinhart will be speaking at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience in Monterey, California, Nov. If all the meetings that we have re-scheduled for 2024 come through, we will show a very nice gain in the group market.”

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JANUARY 18, 2024

WTP’s Frank Harrison Shares the Top Three Business Travel Trends for the Coming Year Frank Harrison As the travel industry around the world continues to recover post-pandemic, new business travel trends have emerged that meeting professionals will have to master to optimize attendance.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

Travel recovery post-Covid has been a case of two steps forward one step back. Smart Meetings has been covering the airline and hotel industry closely this year, both in our weekly travel reports designed specifically for meeting planners and in our feature coverage. Fasten Your Seat Belts. Fasten Your Seat Belts.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And this goes beyond meeting planning. But it’s a big problem in the meetings industry.”. The world flipped on its head and meetings were impacted negatively. Read More : Beware the Public Wi-Fi Network: 6 Ways to Practice Cybersecurity While Traveling. So what will planners do?” It’s a human issue.

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The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s ideal for meeting organizers—direct flights from almost everywhere, no need for transfer arrangements, and the ability to host large events, which is unique. Guests don’t hear airplanes taking off or landing, allowing them to enjoy a quiet, restful stay and be ready for travel the next day.’

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