Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Meeting automation is potentially positioning itself as the next technology to shake up the planning game. While apps and meeting management systems have been grabbing headline and topping lists of “tech to watch,” more complete meeting automation could take those principles another step forward.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2023

Nine Ways to Meet Attendees Where They Are It shouldn’t surprise you that 25% of the average meeting budget is spent on food and beverage. Have a meeting with the banquet manager to determine your options. Conclusion Food is an essential element of every meeting. Perhaps those with specific requirements (i.e.,

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2023

Force Majeure clause and employment classifications changes coming for MPs The legal nuances of meeting planning can be a bit overwhelming even for the seasoned planners. To offer some helpful insight in what areas to be on the lookout for, Smart Meetings sat down with Ty M. Independent Contractors vs Employees The U.S.

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Endless Events

JUNE 17, 2019

Turn your mics on, it’s time to explore meeting automation for events! On this week’s Event Tech Podcast, we’re tackling meeting automation for events. Meeting automation can do wonders for any business in terms of organization. But there’s more to it than meets the eye! So they created Jifflenow.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Meeting planning always seems to have another trick up its sleeve no matter how prepared you thought you were. With this and ever-changing rules and regulations about Covid-19 safety, what is a meeting professional to do? The post 5 Questions for Your Next Site Inspection appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2022

In addition to magnifying the message of value, leveraging the existing tools can often provide both the destination and the meeting professional with an opportunity to build the attendee profile by understanding their footprint in the city and, ultimately, maximize future visitor experience for both the host organization and the host destination.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

After a long, exhausting meeting, the last thing on most attendees’ minds is eating healthy, but event professionals can do their part by ensuring attendees get the nutrition they need from their meals. In the past three years, hotels have been working to change their approach to meeting and break meals, Zoblotsky said. “We

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2021

Crowd control is going to be on meeting planners’ minds in the first few months of the post-pandemic era, and there’s no better model for how to herd the hordes than the Walt Disney Company. Meanwhile, Disney’s meetings business has been up and running since the parks opened, albeit on a reduced scale.

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Dana Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There are rules and regulations to align with, local businesses to reach out to and a lot of ins and outs that need to be identified. Does your trail meet state standards? If, however, you need to locate attractions that fit into the tourism trail and “create” it, that’s a bit trickier. Is it easy to use, find and travel?

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings? An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Since taking effect in May, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has altered data management practices throughout the meetings industry, not just in Europe, according to 2019 Global Meetings and Events Forecast report. Outside of Europe, meetings and events professionals are feeling the pressure, as well.

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Smart Meetings

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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

The CDC still advises meeting professionals to avoid large gatherings when possible. Despite the loosening of restrictions by the CDC, groups are still bound by state and local regulations and the CDC recommends that planners check in with their respective locale’s rules before moving forward. To date, more than half of U.S.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Wasser-Agenda 21 provides a platform for the stakeholders to meet and exchange about current and future water management challenges, aiming to provide solutions. Networking features, which allowed attendees to exchange direct messages with each other during the Zoom ‘meeting’ format.

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Smart Meetings

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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Smart Meetings

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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Demand for business travel and meetings is back with a vengeance, of that there is absolutely no doubt,” said Patrick Andersen, CEO of CWT. Increase in Meeting Spend. The post Business Travelers to See Travel Price Increases Through 2023 appeared first on Smart Meetings. in 2023, following its 3.4% decrease in 2020.

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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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Smart Meetings

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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Called THRIVE, this collaboration between Marina Bay Sands and Singapore business event agency BEAMexperience seeks to help attendees function at their best while meeting on site. Similarly, the meetings and events industry has pivoted towards this trend, with delegates increasingly seeking wellness experiences during business travel.

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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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 26, 2024

6 tips for budget-friendly, memorable rewards programs that are easy on the meeting prof Smart Meetings Vice President JT Long sat down with Melissa Moten, vice president of experience and event solutions at The Collective by BCD M&E, to discuss some key elements of planning a smooth and successful incentive trip.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2022

Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board Senior Vice President of Sales and Services Darren Green joined Scheiderer to talk about the evolution of how meetings are planned after all the industry has been through. The post The RFP of the Future: Stronger Partnerships, Successful Events appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2022

The recent celebration of Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) provided our industry with an opportunity to step back from the chaos of the last two years and assess not only where we have been, but where we are going. The necessity of hybrid meetings brought many things to light. Not All Audiences Are the Same.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

For answers to those questions and more, there are meeting and events legal experts such as Jonathan T. Perhaps the most prescient issue in the minds of modern planners, data security, has become linked with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but it’s important regardless of the nationality of the people involved.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2023

Smart Meetings sat down with cannabis travel consultant and advocate Brian Applegarth to discuss the integration of cannabis into the tourism industry and what meeting professionals should know. A: Cannabis and hemp are the same plant, but they are regulated differently because of the altering effects of that psychoactive molecule.

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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. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2022

Meeting professionals are starting to rebook events in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, but continuing waves of Covid and cautious restrictions from some countries are resulting in a slow restart. Other Asian countries, such as Singapore, have had relatively minimal levels of regulation. State of Singaporean Events.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The letter goes on to point out the unique immunity the airlines have from state lawsuits—a law that means the DOT must regulate domestic airlines and oversee consumer protections. We need to lose this preemption,” he told Smart Meetings in an exclusive interview appearing in our October/November issue. “No

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We look forward to continuing our ongoing discussions with regulators as we work toward completing the transaction and delivering value to team members, guests and stockholders.” Read More : JW Marriott’s Scented Supper Made Meeting Memories. ” JetBlue made a $3.8 billion cash offer for the airline.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

On Wednesday, California lawmakers passed an extensive climate and clean energy bill with the goal of decarbonizing the state’s electrical grid, regulating projects to eliminate carbon from the atmosphere and eliminating new oil drilling near communities.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

John DiScala, travel influencer and owner of JohnnyJet.com, told Smart Meetings , “Whenever there is a merger, it’s almost never good for consumers. The merger is yet to be approved by federal regulators, a process which will most likely result in a green light, but may take time. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2018

On the heels of multiple studies showing that event professionals are increasingly being asked to do more with less, Smart Meetings asked a veteran planner for tips on how to create “wow” on a budget. Modify your menus: It’s sad but true that food is often wasted at meetings. Food and Beverage.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 9, 2024

(Whatevver Media Group) In a conversation with Convening Leaders 2024 emcee Holly Ransom on Tuesday morning, President Bill Clinton and 67th Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed the value of in-person meetings for democracy and idea exchange. We need regulation, guardrails, and protections so that we get the positive.

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