Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

This is the first time Cvent has generated the list since the pandemic halted events. 1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. 1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. Las Vegas can often be found within the Top 10 because it’s a city built for meetings and events. billion).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Stewart is director of special event for Visit Panama City Beach in Florida. He joined the organization in 2015, and since then, has worked as sports marketing and special events coordinator, and operations manager. Pereira is director of event management for Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa in the Cayman Islands.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ashwin Gunasekeran, the CEO of Penang Convention and Exhibition Bureau (PCEB ) said that Penang has been actively engaging with India since 2017 as its one of the fastest growing markets for Penang. The networking event was also attended by the business events industry players.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The disruption caused by the pandemic and subsequent Great Resignation in the events world is no exception. The urgent call to restaff hotels and events teams and engage discriminating audiences will include many unimaginable trials, learning new skills and, ultimately, a reinvention of ourselves and the industry.

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 25, 2024

Its host of remarkable facilities include a vast state-of-the-art conference hall, a 360-degree rooftop venue, a stunning outdoor beachfront event space, and about 10,000sqm dedicated to shopping and dining outlets. The Anam Group is exploring organizing events such as classical concerts, fashion shows and product launches.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The business events and meetings industry drives $1.03 The report, Global Economic Significance of Business Events , contrasts the total to a similar economic footprint for the entire consumer electronics industry. This represents only the direct spend planning, producing and traveling to events,” he said.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The post ITE HCMC 2017: Record breaking attendance appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City (ITE HCMC), the Greater Mekong subregion’s largest international travel event, concluded its 13th annual event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 9 September. .

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 23, 2018

million annual visitors, breaks 2017 record appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. In 2017, the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) hosted a whopping 353 MICE events including 103 mega-events that attracted 2.6 That’s almost one event daily which is not surprising for the region’s largest trade venue.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

ExCel London , a major event venue at the historic Royal Docks, promoted Clover to executive director of event management and guest experience. Most recently, Clover joined the company as head of event management. Thompson is director of meeting and event services at Talley Management Group in Mount Royal, New Jersey.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2022

Another question is, “What does this mean for corporate event planning?”—if Regis Atlanta, and entered the digital side of things in 2017 when he got into Ethereum (or ETH [pronounced “eeth”]). Read More : Mark Zuckerberg Weighs in on Future of Virtual Reality Tourism. if it means anything at all.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 24, 2018

The post Ras Al Khaimah tourism, fuelled by MICE and adventure, up 14% appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA) announced its latest tourism figures yesterday. Germany remained as the second biggest source market, up 4%, followed by the UK, up 13% on 2017.

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Solimar International

AUGUST 15, 2023

Such events often lead to mass emigration: the process of considerable parts of a population leaving their homelands in search of a better life. In addition, the blog will answer the questions of how tourism can help and more importantly, how the people still living in the southern, mostly abandoned villages, feel about it.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2018

During a summer semester at University of New Orleans, she was inspired to switch majors after taking Harsha Chacko’s course, “Intro to Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism.”. “He He is so passionate and knowledgeable about the tourism industry, I didn’t think twice about starting over,” she says.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Angeles has been in the events industry for over 30 years and possesses international experience with a large network. My vision was to change tourism’. ‘I My vision was to change tourism. Therefore, I started with law, but in a clandestine way in which I was studying tourism and business management.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 17, 2024

Heather Kirksey and Jason Lusk Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) has promoted Heather Kirksey to vice president of public relations, corporate events and membership. In her new role, Kirksey will lead the membership and events team, in addition to the organization’s public relations department.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 16, 2018

The post VisitBritain opens the Harrogate to UK tourism at ExploreGB 2019 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The 2019 edition of ExploreGB, the UK’s travel trade event, has been announced this week by organisers VisitBritain, the public face of the British Tourist Authority. There were 39.2 billion, up 9%.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The September event brought destination marketers from Alaska to Texas to Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho, for networking, breakout sessions, a lesson in crisis communication and a taste (and a twirl) of downtown Boise’s booming Basque Cultural District. (If Top Trends Impacting Hospitality, Tourism and Events. Shawna Suckow.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 9, 2021

In April, the Glasgow Convention Bureau became the first DMO to join Tourism Declares Climate Emergency. One industry that both contributes to global warming and suffers from its negative effects is tourism. An Eco-Friendly Events Ecosystem. Nine other bureaus have signed on since then. Courtesy of Glasgow Convention Bureau).

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 12, 2017

Initiatives dovetail with 2017 Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. The United Nations will launch the Year of Sustainable Tourism on January 18, and Fiona Pelham, immediate past president of Meeting Professionals International, is working with the U.N.'s read more.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The post IT&CMA and CTW Asia-Pacific 2017 focuses on education. In depth knowledge building was the core of an amplified education programme across 22 forum sessions at IT&CMA and CTW Asia-Pacific 2017. and there are many other vertical priorities ahead of tourism when you look at these clusters.”.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The post MICE and Corporate buyers flock to ITB Asia 2017 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Celebrating its 10 th anniversary, ITB Asia 2017 has opened its doors today at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands. Already, ITB Asia 2017 is expected to top the success of ITB Asia 2016.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

8, 2017, turned into an inferno when winds picked up that night. However, from a meetings, events and tourism perspective, very few venues were lost and 90 percent of the grapes had already been harvested for the season. Facebook and Google are just two of the major companies that have held events there. Las Alcobas.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 26, 2023

Host cities, in most cases, provide attendees with much more than they could have bargained for: unexpected culinary delights or mind-blowing entertainment hosted at top-flight event venues. billion Summit Building, which hosted its first event on January 12. The new Summit Building includes over 240,000 sq. of total meeting space.

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Travel Daily Media

JUNE 2, 2023

Prague welcomed almost four thousand events with 616,000 delegates last year, according to aggregated data from the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) and the Prague Convention Bureau (PCB). Compared with the record year of 2019, only 66% of events were held in Prague last year, but with a much higher attendance.

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Crowdriff

JUNE 23, 2016

We’ve just returned from beautiful Philadelphia where we spent two action-packed days at the 2016 Tourism Academy conference which we were proud to support as a key sponsor and as a presenter with our client Visit Stockton. 3 Key Takeaways from Tourism Academy 2016: Content is more than what you create, it’s a way to build community.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Whether it is hurricanes, fires, live shooters or picketers, most event professionals will eventually find themselves in the situation of putting into action emergency measures developed with the hope that they would never be used. Visit Houston President and CEO Mike Waterman described the first months of 2017 as “bad ass.”

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Those are defined as costs incurred to attend a qualified event, including registration fees, lodging, and costs associated with exhibitions. • It recognizes the important role hospitality and tourism, including business events, are for driving local economies.”. This is a great bill for the industry.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 14, 2022

VisitPittsburgh has added John Leinen and Razak Kadiri to its business events sales team. Kadiri has more than seven years of experience serving as the primary contact for logistics support and customer service for more than 20 B2B tradeshows and events. Most recently, he worked as senior event services coordinator for NTP Events.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The association is working with Congress toward restoring some of the tax deductions for business travel that were eliminated in the 2017 Tax Bill, and to pass legislation to provide temporary tax credits and deductions through the Hospitality and Commerce Jobs Recovery Act, U.S. Barbara Palmer is deputy editor at Convene.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

founder Hilina Ajakaiye, surrounded by some of the volunteers who organized the 1,400-person women’s leadership conference in 2022, first created the conference in 2017. Hilina Ajakaiye draws on her experience as an immigrant — and conference organizer — to invite everyone to the table in the Boston hospitality and events industry.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Louisville Tourism has promoted an employee and hired several others across the organization. ASM Global has appointed Patrick Lynch as senior vice president, private events, in the U.S. The Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa has appointed Natasha Anna Pereira as director of event management.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 26, 2022

The Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau (LRCVB) has announced the promotion of Adam Berrios to vice president of sales and services, a position that drives the organization’s key role in attracting meetings, conventions, and sporting events to the area. He also leads hotel partner relations. West Coast market. Beki Winchel.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 27, 2022

She joins Visit Tampa Bay from the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, where she served as the group sales and events manager. With 20 years of hospitality and tourism experience, as well as extensive knowledge of the Tampa Bay region, Gupta will focus on the southeast region of the U.S., Florida government, and social events in her new position.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2019

For retreats and destination events, hitting the beach is a popular choice. With natural beauty and luxurious offerings and experiences galore, the Cayman Islands’ vision for after-event activities includes shopping along Camana Bay or swimming with the turtles at Cayman Turtle Centre. A fair point, indeed. Panama City Beach.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, Choice Hotels International Inc., The conversion trend itself goes beyond just converting existing hotels into brands owned by hospitality conglomerates. Some properties are converting buildings which previously served other purposes. for instance, began looking to convert vacant Washington, D.C.-

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Sokha Siem Reap Resort & Convention Centre, the 5th portfolio hotel under Sokha Hotels & Resorts, will be hosting the 1st edition of Cambodia Travel Mart (CTM) during 17-19 November 2017. . It’s the first time ever that the tourism exhibition event is going to be held at large scale.

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Travel Daily Media

JUNE 4, 2018

After the success of ITB Asia last year, the tenth anniversary event where over 940 exhibitors from 113 countries set up shop at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, it looked like 2017 was going to be a hard act to follow – but preliminary figures show ITB Asia 2018 is on target to smash that record.

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