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DECEMBER 29, 2021

The impact of where we go and how we meet is more important than ever, and event professionals know that the business partners they choose matter. We plan to achieve these goals through use of our award-winning tool, LightStay, as well as offerings like Meet with Purpose.”.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

He has been with the organization for a total of 10 years, joining as program manager for IAAPA Europe in 2009. The post Smart Moves in New York, Panama City Beach and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Jakob Wahl. Wahl will be president and CEO of IAAPA , effective Jan.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He joined the company in 1992 and has held his position as senior vice president since 2009. Until January of this year, Martin was partner events manager for RingCentral, and before that, she was senior meeting manager for National Conference of State Legislatures, both in Denver. Jeremy Heyes. Stacey Kokosinski.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 19, 2023

He began working with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in 2009 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa Resort in Rose Hall, Jamaica as travel sales industry coordinator. His start in the hospitality industry began more than 20 years ago with Air Jamaica, where he was a lead agent in reservations and irregular operations.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2023

ESPs are the anchor that bond diverse suppliers representing multi-cultural backgrounds that desire and qualify to be able to provide goods and services to meeting planners who deliberately seek to make an impact on destinations where they host events. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

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. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. It was recognized fairly quickly as an important book on meeting design.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The post AIME 2009’s call for hosted buyers appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. AIME 2009, the Asia Pacific’s leading event for the meetings and incentives industry, has opened applications for Hosted Buyers.

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Travel Daily Media

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, announced its expansion in the Middle East with data collection in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to accommodate the growing demand and fierce competition facing new hoteliers in the market.

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MPI

MAY 1, 2023

I became a member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) in 2009. I had just been promoted and my boss strongly encouraged my involvement.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 6, 2024

He also will develop new marketplace opportunities for IAEE’s annual meeting and strengthen industry relationships in partnership with IAEE’s sales, marketing, and membership teams, as well as develop attendee acquisition strategies. Jennifer Ramsey has joined Talley as a meeting planner.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“We have not been [here] before,” said MGM senior vice president of MGM Resorts International Mike Dominguez, in a recent Smart Meetings webinar , referring to the state of the hotel industry going into 2019. As 2018 comes to a close, Dominguez shared some insights into what he sees for the future of the meetings industry.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 7, 2019

Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, leaders of the Meetings Mean Business coalition—which showcases the tangible value that face-to-face meetings, conventions, and trade shows provide to people, businesses, and host communities—revealed what coalition co-chair Julie Coker Graham called the group's "activation strategy" for 2019.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 4, 2023

BestCities Global Alliance, the world’s leading network of premier meeting destinations and GainingEdge, a global leader specializing in providing advice to the conventions and meetings industry, are pleased to announce a three-year renewal of their management contract. GainingEdge has been managing the alliance since 2009.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Craighead has won several accolades, including the Planner of the Year Award by Smart Meetings in 2020 and the Show Manager of the Year Award in 2015 from the Expo Group and Trade Show News Network. The post Smart Moves in Albuquerque, Maui and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Patrick Lacassagne. Susan Carlson.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Originally from a scientific academic background, as an independent consultant in the United States, Segar attended traditional academic conferences and meetings, becoming fascinated by the outcomes (and lack of outcomes) when people were assembled together with the intention of teaching, connecting with, and learning from each other.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 10, 2023

We have been serving customers between Toronto and Dubai since 2007, and although the double-decker A380 aircraft has been operating the route since 2009, demand arising from leisure and corporate travellers, diaspora and students has consistently outstripped the allocated capacity.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 11, 2023

Cvent , a market-leading meetings, events, travel, and hospitality technology provider, will host its third annual Cvent Travel Summit on Wednesday 19 April. This year’s content is sponsored by the Travel and Meeting Society (TAMS), whose goal is to educate, disrupt, and innovate the business travel and meeting and event industry.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Thompson is director of meeting and event services at Talley Management Group in Mount Royal, New Jersey. Souksanith was appointed executive meetings manager at Fairmont Dallas. Douglas joined the organization in 2009 as administrative assistant of corporate events and development. Michael Thompson, CMM. Pawin “P.J.” Souksanith.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. We had a strong year in 2008, and in January 2009, we began getting cancellations one after another. By the end of 2009, things were recovering. ‘I’ve been an entrepreneur since 1999.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Running since 2009, the event has promoted itself as a “one-of-a-kind festival experience” with “12 main stages, over 50 hidden venues, thousands of performers and one secret line-up”. Glastonbury Perhaps surprisingly, Glastonbury places fifth, despite being one of the most iconic festivals in the world.

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Blue Spark Event Design

JANUARY 19, 2024

Meeting organizers are constantly on the lookout for the best hotels in every city (if you need help with site selection and negotiation , let us know!) Rosen Shingle Creek Renovated in 2019, the hotel features 1,501 stylish guest rooms and suites with 524,000 square feet of meeting space.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. You can fulfill your event’s objectives by incorporating these appropriate formats into your meetings, creating unique experiences worth remembering. Hey, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.)

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 19, 2023

Once the brown gelatinous algae reach coastlines, locals, tourists, hoteliers and meeting professionals will have to contend with the nuisance of it canvassing beaches and release a foul stench as it decays. The most important thing is the level of meeting expectations,” Farr says.

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JULY 17, 2023

Samantha Veneruso, director of learning programs at the American Geophysical Union (from left); Goradesky; and Lauren Parr, SVP, meetings and learning at AGU, were introduced by Joni Opperman, Hilton Worldwide Sales.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the lowest number since 2009. appeared first on Smart Meetings. Only 65 percent of companies plan to host a party this year, according to the 2018 Holiday Party Survey Report released by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Last year, almost 73 percent of companies held holiday parties.

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DCI

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Talent Program at a Glance: Duration : Began in 2009; website relaunched in 2019 . The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, which represents the 10-county region, began its talent attraction efforts in 2009 in response to a major Boeing relocation. This week, we are diving into the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s talent attraction campaign.

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 11, 2023

Cvent, a meetings, events, travel, and hospitality technology provider, will host its third annual Cvent Travel Summit on Wednesday 19 April. This year’s content is sponsored by the Travel and Meeting Society (TAMS), whose goal is to educate, disrupt, and innovate the business travel and meeting and event industry.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 9, 2023

Both Conrado and Mendoza, along with the other Board nominees, will be on the ballot at the 2023 Annual Shareholders Meeting. They have served us tirelessly for over 15 and 20 years, respectively, with John chairing the Safety and Compliance Committee since its inception in 2009. DALLAS – Southwest Airlines Co.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Since its first official event in 1998, this celebration has continued to grow, moving from small hotels to its current host venue, the Raleigh Convention Center, in 2009. Read past installments of There’s a Meeting For That. It is now sponsored by the charity Educational Growth Across Oceans. Culture Class. Visit the Archive.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

One of the talks that impressed me the most was ‘Participant experience design – how do we create meetings which move people more deeply?’ It was established based on the theory of meeting design, a well-known ‘tool kit’ used by planners worldwide. Transitioning to the new event world: What can a meeting look like?

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 22, 2022

Here’s where art meets technology: Programmable LED lights connected to a stream of information from Oklahoma City Open Data Portals trace the city’s climate data for an in-the-moment visual experience. The color palette is meant to reflect the subtle shifts of color that take place throughout the day depending on the current season.

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Travel Daily Media

JANUARY 22, 2024

In 2005 he founded & launched Travolution, the first media brand for the digital travel sector, and in 2009 he became CEO of Travel Weekly Group, leading a management buyout to establish it as an independent business. Simon Ferguson has over 20 years’ experience leading businesses in the travel and technology sectors.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 30, 2018

Rarely, however, is this tool used to design events that creatively incorporate, illuminate, and support core desires and outcomes for the meeting. With this tool, you can generate something truly original — like in 2009, when Jill and Kevin Heinz invented a brand new trope: the wedding entrance dance. What’s the tool?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Returning to F2F, do alcohol and meetings still mix? It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. Faceplanted on the table during a global investigator meeting, causing four glass bottles to topple to the floor.”. Yes, they did.

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Travel Daily Media

JANUARY 13, 2015

The post GCC region tops potential to become global meetings hub appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. GCC region gearing up to be a meeting hub. A recent study by Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) stated that GCC countries are in an advantageous position to become a global meetings hub.

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Social Tables

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

If you’re like me when planning a meeting or event, the rentals portion of the budget can consume all of your time and energy. How Flexible Are Your Meeting Dates? It is really important to prioritize what you absolutely need versus what you want at your meeting. Good news: it doesn’t have to. Do You Know Your Total Spend?

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JUNE 13, 2022

Several years ago, short hotel lead times made headlines causing problems and frustrations in the meetings and events industry. In 2015, we experienced an economic plateau after seven years of straight growth out of the 2008-2009 recession. Everyone is planning this year’s meetings as well as past years’. A Bit of Background.

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