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DIY Car and Train Booking App Could Ease Transportation Inflation 

Smart Meetings

Do you sometimes wish you could book the most reasonably priced rental car by clicking a few buttons on your phone? The travel management company CWT just added car rental and train booking to their app and website to give travelers more independence in making their reservations at a time when travel costs are reaching historic highs. .

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Book a Spy at Your Next Event—Yes, You Read Right

Smart Meetings

The skills and lessons learned by these experts in intelligence can be fascinating—and useful in the nonespionage world—and now many of these specialists from the CIA, FBI, KGB and Mossad are for hire for your next meeting or training session for keynotes, corporate training and team development.

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ASAE Embraced Disruption at 2022 Annual Meeting

Smart Meetings

The 2022 Annual Meeting & Exposition agenda covered the current disruptions of sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, and workforce challenges with an eye toward finding new solutions using new association business models. I love traveling,” she said, reflecting on the miles booked on the road over the last year. “I

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Best of 2022: Advocacy

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings has collected a list of advocacy stories from 2022 and we are all excited to see even more in the new year. Smart Meetings sat down for a chat with Megan Henshall, a 2022 Smart Women in Meetings Visionary Award Winner, to discuss neurodiversity in the events industry and what professionals can do to accommodate the issue.

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Feeling Good: 2022 Wellness Tourism Trends

Dana Communications

in 2020, wellness tourism will multiply an impressive 21% annually through 2025, reflecting “new traveler values (a quest for nature, sustainability in travel, mental wellness) as well as a period of rapid recovery from pent-up demand in 2021 and 2022.”. First, let’s note that wellness itself is one of the key travel trends for 2022.

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ASAE Embraced Disruption at 2022 Annual Meeting

Smart Meetings

The 2022 Annual Meeting & Exposition agenda covered the current disruptions of sustainability; diversity, equity and inclusion; and workforce challenges with an eye toward finding new solutions using new association business models. I love traveling,” she said, reflecting on the miles booked on the road over the last year. “I

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SwissSkills Bern 2022 – Shaping the future for young people 

The MICE Blog

Over 60 percent of young adults in Switzerland choose vocational training or apprenticeship over an academic path. Vocational training is common in many countries around the world. The vocational education and training system in Switzerland is unique in the world . The SwissSkills event targets a young audience.

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