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Travel and Experience by Train

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Hop on the train for travel and team-building For meeting professionals and their clients, traveling can be crucial to the job. Travelers may want to consider a more affordable and scenic experience—a good old fashioned train ride. Travelers may want to consider a more affordable and scenic experience—a good old fashioned train ride.

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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

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Training programs are upping the event planning standard. With so much young talent entering our industry, we wanted to create an easy and free way for our clients to train new team members and to provide continuing education for more experienced planners,” said GDP President and CEO Catherine Chaulet in a press release.

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DIY Car and Train Booking App Could Ease Transportation Inflation 

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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. . CWT already had travel counselors available 24/7 to help travelers with car and train bookings.

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Half Million Hotel Workers Trained in Human Trafficking Awareness

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Human trafficking awareness training offered by American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) has been given to more than 500,000 hotel workers since early 2020. That number is in addition to nearly 100,000 Marriott workers who have completed the training, titled “Your Role in Preventing Human Trafficking: Recognize the Signs.”

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Certified Wellness Training Launched by ALHI and Delos Partnership

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A new partnership ALHI is announcing today with Delos to train meeting professionals on wellness beyond protocols could jump start a more holistic approach to taking care of attendees. The new training series builds on the research and science and arms planners with the tools they need to be more effective. Educational Opportunity.

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Champion Planners Met in Texas for 1-Day Training

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The post Champion Planners Met in Texas for 1-Day Training appeared first on Smart Meetings. His parting words from his newest book, “ A Company of Owners: Maximizing Company Engagement ,” empowered everyone to take ownership of their careers and events by looking beyond the checklist. Having fun at work is good business,” he said.

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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility

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A private group of investors has purchased Crotonville, General Electric’s management-training facility for nearly 70 years, for $22 million and will operate the suburban New York venue as a conference center—which means that business groups can meet in the same spaces that legendary GE CEO Jack Welch educated his management teams.