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Smart Travel Column Debut: New Pet Rules, Health App, Corporate Trends

Smart Meetings

The CDC Has Updated Travel Regulations for Dogs, Effective Now On Aug. 1, the CDC is implementing new regulations for flying with pets, affecting the estimated 4 million animals that travel by air annually. We have just the thing. So, pack your bags and mark your calendars to check out this new, every-Friday feature!

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3 Easy Ways Planners Can Reduce Risk Today

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That can apply to something innocuous such as an outdoor event facing the prospect of rain, to a hotel that doesn’t finish its renovations on schedule and can’t accommodate your event on the contracted date. “It’s difficult to have a plan B without knowing what will happen to plan A, but good planners keep themselves up to speed,” Howe says.

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How Hotels and Resorts Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Dana Communications

Because your sustainability practices deeply affect their decisions on where to book, remember to proactively communicate about them to prospective and existing guests and clients. Bottom line: Reducing that carbon footprint grows increasingly crucial to travelers and planners—and to your revenue. But spread the word!

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CDC Will Allow Cruise Travel to Resume This Summer   

Smart Meetings

Cruise line representatives cited the vaccination requirement as part of a multi-pronged approach to keeping crew and passengers safe, in addition to implementing CDC regulations, requiring negative testing before boarding and adhering to reduced capacity and social distancing guidelines.

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How to Win a ‘Yes!’ for Renewed Incentive Travel: Meeting Professionals Share Tips

Smart Meetings

Companies looking to reinstate incentive travel also considered the industries of prospective participants in the incentive programs. There were also highly individual considerations for prospective incentive travelers. The surveys showed family members playing a much larger part in the decision to travel.

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5 Things to Keep in Mind Before Hiring Event Staff

Social Tables

Understand the Regulations with Hiring Staff. So you have to realize that when hiring people, even for just a single event, there are regulations you need to abide by. The idea here is to make sure you know, generally speaking, the regulations and legalities around hiring staff. Click To Tweet. What’s the Budget?

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The Advent Of Meeting Automation For Events

Endless Events

“What they were doing is trying to schedule meetings with customers and prospects and partners and press and others, and putting on this big wall because it was a large company. How careful you can be with the data of the customer and how you maintain privacy and not violate any regulations are all constantly evolving.