Smart Meetings

MAY 22, 2023

Planners can take advantage of this beautiful and unique scenery by booking the Pete Padilla & Manuel Mora Memorial Park space, Pete V. However, the convenient services offered at the center extend to include food services, offering planners several menu options to provide attendees with a superb dining experience. in the world.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of websites for event planners so some of the hardest-working professionals can complete every task on their list. The site offers daily articles, industry reports, webinars, and more. PCMA PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) is a nonprofit organization serving the business events industry.

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Website Planner Certification Publishing 98

Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

There are a lot of things event planners need to be ready for. Here are challenges and opportunities event planners can expect in the next decade. Event Planner Challenges. Data protection is always on event planners’ minds. We’re talking about actions like: organic and sustainable food sourcing.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The organization announced this first-time host city all the way back in July 2016, for cryin’ out loud! If you haven’t already, it’s time to get to the drawing board to book off-site activities and venues for next August 10 to 13. Planners can rent areas of Huntington Park to bring groups to games. Get Touristy.

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Fashion Affiliate Venue Planner 203

MeetingsNet

MAY 19, 2023

Should planners add this factor to their site-selection research? For meetings that take place over a Monday or a Friday in a first- or second-tier city, planners might want to consider hosting an on-site evening event rather than scheduling a free night for attendees to roam around the host city.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Event planners worry about meeting growing attendee expectations while dealing with rising costs, reduced staffs, and smaller budgets. Conducted between August and September, the DCI study includes the responses of 173 global event planners, 57 percent of whom have more than 20 years of experience in the events industry.

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DCI

APRIL 19, 2023

For destinations that are already taking these steps, it’s also time to make sure you’re being clear and upfront with meeting planners. Meeting planners want to know that, if nothing else, your venue is acting as a model backdrop for greener meetings. For planners, all of these details carry nearly equal weight at this point.

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Sustainability Meeting Site Selection Planner 87

Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of websites for event planners so some of the hardest-working professionals can complete every task on their list. The site offers daily articles, industry reports, webinars, and more. PCMA PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) is a nonprofit organization serving the business events industry.

Website 52

Website Planner Certification Publishing 52

DCI

AUGUST 8, 2023

As the global meetings industry faces mounting environmental and social pressures, details as seemingly mundane as a venue’s food and beverage offerings are increasingly part of the conversation for planners of tomorrow’s meetings. Business travel can impact attendees, local communities, and the environment in many significant ways.

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Meeting Sustainability Site Selection Planner 77

DCI

MARCH 3, 2023

Both destinations and meeting planners alike weighed in on the work that’s been done, and the work that’s left to do by destinations for their partners, their communities, and meeting planners looking to book events. Canvas Meetings & Incentives, and Streamlinevents.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Accessibility also impacts the bottom line: When organizations make an effort to reach often marginalized attendees, it can result in an attendance boost of 20 percent and 30 percent higher profit margins, according to Diamond Accessibility. Closer to the event, organizers also should consider if their registration page is accessible.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A veteran planner discusses how she nudges hotels to act on her requests for proposal: She gives to get. Some organizations require more concessions, others want to be in a specific destination regardless of the cost, and still others are in a short-term booking situation that requires casting a wide net for offers in a compressed market.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 4, 2023

Partnering with a third-party event management firm can help alleviate that ever-expanding workload, often with perks that planners may not initially realize. One such firm is CM Event Solutions (CM), which specializes in planning, organizing, and executing events from start to finish. “At

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Maritz Global Events

AUGUST 15, 2019

It affects everything from the site selection process right through to delivery. Thankfully, this burden shouldn’t fall squarely on the shoulders of event managers or show organizers. This has probably become—in discussions I’ve had with clients and colleagues—item number one.”. Keeping Event Security Top of Mind. “God

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Events Global Events Site Selection Communications 66

Blue Spark Event Design

AUGUST 10, 2022

A Destination Management Company (DMC) is an organization that offers professional event and group-travel related services only in destinations where they are located. The sourcing, organization, and management of guest airport arrivals and departures can be a daunting and time-intensive activity for an inexperienced planner.

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Blue Spark Event Design

AUGUST 24, 2022

When searching for an event company to partner with, many meeting planners utilize a traditional Destination Management Company (DMC) in the city of their convention. Having a broad comprehension of where the organization started and where it is headed is a level of understanding that a traditional DMC most likely cannot offer.

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DCI

JULY 19, 2021

For the unfiltered outsider perspective for tourism brands, we survey past and potential visitors, as well as meeting planners, tour operators, airline executives and travel advisors. Many destination marketing organizations are becoming destination management organizations, focusing as much on product development as marketing.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

of event organizers believe that events are the most critical marketing channel for achieving business goals, and 75.9% of organizers believe in-person conferences will become increasingly critical to their organization’s success in the coming years! According to The state of in-person B2B conferences report , 80.4%

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Management Advertising Events Consulting 98

Blue Spark Event Design

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Client: An international skincare and makeup company with one internal meeting planner and a small support team who’s daily tasks focused not only on events, but also social media and public relations for the entire company. Onsite event management.

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Retreat Incentives Social Media Training 52

Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

They are known for planning epic events, creating amazing exhibits and organize engaging trade shows. For organizations that require highly-engaged people to realize their mission, August Jackson is the brand engagement agency that puts purpose into practice. Notable Clients: TimeWarner, McDonalds, Centene, Interl, Google. Irvine, CA.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

Moms for Liberty, a controversial far-right advocacy organization, is known for supporting book bans on topics of racism, slavery, sex, and gender identity, and for pushing anti-trans policies in schools. What criteria or guidelines does your hotel follow when deciding which organizations are allowed to host events at your premises?

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wade has given many organizations another thorny issue to consider when deciding where to hold their events.(Sarah Wade in June, it not only took away the constitutional right to abortion, but also disrupted many organizations’ plans to hold their events in about half of the United States that now or will likely soon ban access to abortions.

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Site Selection Contracts Contracts Communications 98

Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 19, 2024

Taking proactive measures, including making water stations available to encourage regular hydration, is essential for meetings planners dealing with a heat wave. Destination selection — A common cost-cutting strategy for many organizations is to book event venues during off-peak seasons to secure better rates.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 15, 2022

A group of association planners and executives and DMO and convention center representatives discuss the recent overturning of Roe v. Then where does that liability transfer to the organization in terms of our ability to keep you safe? And it’s really hard to communicate how site selection is made to our members to begin with.

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Contracts Contracts Site Selection Communications 98

Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 13, 2023

Unlike the PCMA roundtable among association planners and execs and DMOs that was convened in AGU’s offices four months earlier, the December roundtable, moderated by Peter O’Neil, FASAE, CAE, CEO of ASIS International, didn’t focus exclusively on how to navigate the events landscape in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Roe v.

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Events Government Site Selection Insurance 97

MeetingsNet

APRIL 11, 2023

Morals and politics aside, site selection in post-Roe America presents groups with new risk-management challenges, argues one industry lawyer. Raising another question for planners, Grimes asks: “Do you have a duty to warn [attendees]?” Abortion rights is an emotional and polarizing topic.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 29, 2022

To Palma, now CEO of Sacramento-based site-selection and hospitality consulting firm Palma & Co, Oakland and NACIVT seemed like a perfect fit. And for the first time in its history, NACIVT hired a meeting planner — Palma, who left her sales job at Visit Oakland in April.

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