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ADMEI Announces 2024 Awards Finalists

ADMEI

ADMEI’s awards program is among the most respectable and distinguished in the meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) industry and the most robust, noteworthy DMC-specific awards program. The award winners are announced and all finalists are celebrated at the Awards Gala during the ADMEI Annual Conference.

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The Ultimate Guide to Conferences for Event Planners in 2024

Bizzaboo

In this post, you’ll find a comprehensive list of the most important event industry conferences that every event professional should attend this year. Attending these conferences will allow you to learn more about the events industry and meet other event professionals. Don’t see your 2024 conference for event planners on this page?

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. And then in 2005, twenty-eight years later, I felt compelled to write a book about the new ways I’d developed to design and lead conferences that became what the participants wanted and needed.

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Bouncing Back: Tourism After a Natural Disaster

Dana Communications

Once these needs are met, recovery marketing efforts step in – through agencies and Direct Marketing Organizations (DMOs) with clear-cut messaging that tactfully acknowledges the devastation. If guests are ordered to evacuate, offer perks and discounts to encourage a return trip once the area is rebuilt. At the recent U.S.

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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

As we move into pandemic recovery, virtual and hybrid events will remain top of mind for many marketing teams, with 92 percent of companies planning to host a digital event, conference or meet-up at some point in the year. which can include channels for each conference track. How to Spread the Word.

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How Did You Get Started in the Events Industry?

Endless Events

It’s a wild time to be having conversations about how we gather, how to make it not suck, and how not to revert to in-person events with elitism that happened in most onsite conferences.” . I spoke there for the first time in 2005 or 2006 and had a good 12-year run on the show. How Nick Got Started in Events.

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Smart Moves in Bonita Springs, Cancun and More

Smart Meetings

Fontainebleau Las Vegas named Yousfi its senior vice president of sales, catering and conference services. Previously, Wibben was senior vice president of sales and marketing at the organization. Tony Yousfi, CMP. Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve welcomed Henriques as its new general manager. Albert Bilotti.