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What Does the Cvent-Choice Hotels Agreement Mean for Planners?

MeetingsNet

Online hotel-research and -booking engine Cvent has finalized an agreement with Choice Hotels to offer Instant Book functionality across the entire Choice portfolio, Cvent’s first such arrangement with a hotel company’s full roster of properties. Cambria, a brand launched in 2005, now has 72 properties around the country.

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10 Top Literary Oases for Groups—in Hotels!

Smart Meetings

Featuring everything from bedtime storybooks to digital books and new titles, library rooms are popping up at high-end properties. Some have transformed a classic room into a book suite, while others have turned the lobby lounge in a literary club or have teamed up with specific companies to offer books for bedroom reading.

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What Exactly Is the Metaverse? Here’s One Expert’s Take.

Convene by PCMA

The metaverse “is a term that, at present, almost defies definition,” wrote tech futurist Cathy Hackl in her recently published book, Into the Metaverse. The metaverse is “platform-agnostic,” said Di Bartolo, who co-authored with Hackl the 2022 book, Navigating the Metaverse. The metaverse is not virtual reality.

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Travel Analytics: Data Sources, Use Cases, and Real-Life Examples

AltexSoft Travel

Company’s booking website and mobile app allow you to track and collect a wealth of data, from web traffic information to user behavioral metrics (session duration, navigation paths, etc.), Other travel booking platforms are the main source of information on competitors’ offerings. geolocation, profiles, and feedback.

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The Ultimate Guide to Conferences for Event Planners in 2024

Bizzaboo

Those booking new business will meet with myriad suppliers who are eager to host the buyers’ future events. GMITE 2024 April 7-10, 2024 Orlando, FL GMITE has been connecting the largest selection of high-volume meeting and incentive travel buyers with global suppliers since 2005. Connect NYC 2024 Feb. Destination Caribbean Sep.

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How and Why Visit Indy Adopted an All-Digital Marketing Approach

Crowdriff

The visual marketing platform also enables Visit Indy to search social photos based on hashtags, geo-locations and search terms to curate those images and feature them on their website , thus encouraging more visitors to get their own pictures taken with one of the signs. million in 2005 to more than 26 million in 2014.

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Carbon Offset in Aviation Explained: How ICAO CORSIA Helps Airlines Get Closer to Net Zero

AltexSoft Travel

percent per year until 2020, stabilizing aviation CO2 emissions at the 2020 level, and reducing them by 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2005 levels. Such calculators come independent of the booking process so customers can basically offset any flight, even if they didn’t take it. Offsets embedded into the booking flow.