Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As the economy slowly re-opens and planners are continuing to source and book, Groups360 is poised to relaunch meetings and events by using powerful new technology tools that save planners time and money. It all stands to reason as the event planning industry has long been plagued by an inefficient booking process for 40 years.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 18, 2021

Among characteristics that can be relevant to price formation are length of stay for round trips, number of competitors in the route, date and time of booking, days/hours left before takeoff, week day of departure, and more. It also suggested the best time for the booking. Unfortunately, the feature was discarded in 2014.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Make a checklist of questions to ask the staff before booking the venue. Editor’s Note: This post was originally written in February 2014 and updated by Anja Grcar for clarity purposes. . Don’t Forget About Crowd Management! When creating a safe event, you need to choose a knowledgeable venue. Need help with your event?

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 20, 2020

Reminiscent of my first book, Conferences That Work , AST’s guide provides a comprehensive entry-level guide to starting, preparing for, and running a peer conference. While it doesn’t offer the level of detail in Conferences That Work , it’s an excellent introduction to the key issues.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Are planners—and everyone else—who has booked at Starwood properties since 2014 taking a collective gulp or merely shrugging over the news from Marriott International that as many as 500 million guest records have been breached? And what should be learned from this latest instance of massive cybertheft?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Misrepresentation : Poachers misrepresent themselves to sell bookings outside of the official hotel block. In 2014, the Convention Industry Council conducted a survey of 622 event professionals, and found that 73.1 Notify attendees that haven’t booked in the official room block of possible poaching. What You Can Do.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The MEET TAIWAN promotional event has been held annually in Malaysia since 2014, attracting numerous media, businesses, and MICE professionals each year. This year marks the first return to Malaysia for MEET TAIWAN since the pandemic.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 17, 2024

Kirksey joined the organization in 2014 as a public relations manager and has served as ACVB’s director of public relations since 2016. He is responsible for leading sales initiatives through events, lead generation, and customer engagement to increase hotel room night bookings across the city.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ? I discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago. This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 26, 2014

The post Thailand witnesses five-fold increase in Middle East MICE bookings appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. To support the drive, the TCEB also announced introduction of the special ‘Thailand’s MICE Rewards’ package which runs until September 2014. Thailand gets strong MICE numbers from Middle East.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That is really what changed it for me in 2014” “In 2014, I hit rock bottom and ended up in the emergency room the night before”, she continues. I’m a believer of that, of knowledge, of knowing it instead of adopting and going off of somebody’s book” The Coronavirus.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve explained the importance of curved seating and large circle sets in detail in my book The Power of Participation (Chapter 13), so I won’t reiterate its value here. And we all know that the most intimate and useful small group conversation and connection occurs around round tables.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 23, 2023

” — Barbara Kingsolver , The Moral Universe: Barbara Kingsolver On Writing, Politics, And Human Nature, interview by Jeanne Supin, March 2014 This is the same tension that plays out between association staff and membership wants and needs. I’ve seen many examples of associations’ tails wagging their memberships’ dog.,

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Though Denver Union Station dates back to 1880, the current building was constructed in 1914 and went through a major renovation in 2014. The 2014 renovation included the addition of the 112-room Crawford Hotel and 4,300 sq. of meeting space on top of the Great Hall, plus bars and lounges open for private events. “Now

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 19, 2021

Lauren Johnson has been promoted to senior sales manager and is responsible for booking large trade shows requiring more than 800 peak hotel rooms in the trade, business, and commercial segment. Johnson has been with Louisville Tourism since 2014, most recently serving as national sales manager.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 11, 2018

Buy my new book—The Power of Participation—before July 1 at never-to-be-repeated prices I’m happy to announce that my new book—The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action—will be available for purchase in all formats and outlets on.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 26, 2021

Listing your property in metasearch websites and investing in a marketing campaign can help increase visibility and attract more direct bookings. Another advantage is receiving your guests’ contact information which doesn’t happen when your bookings are made through an OTA. Metasearch cost models. Through a connectivity partner.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 3, 2019

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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Tourism eSchool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

If you did nothing else except offer a brilliant tourism experience AND encouraged your customers to share updates about their great experience with you online, you would be well on your way to growing your bookings and customer numbers! This blog post was originally published in 2014 and most recently updated in September 2021.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

You have all your ducks in a row: awesome venue booked, killer catering secured and tickets to your event are sold out. Choose Chicago (@ChooseChicago) December 28, 2014. casesmc pic.twitter.com/o3A6ZcPJ7E — Christine Tempesta (@ctempesta) November 7, 2014. BizBash Live (@BizBashLive) October 28, 2014. Who’s with me?

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 28, 2023

Previous iterations include Qatar-Japan (2012), Qatar-Brazil (2014), and Qatar-Germany (2017). If you want to be part of the excitement, you should book your tickets early and start making travel arrangements to this beautiful cultural hub. Years of Culture will return to Asia this year, and it promises to be the best celebration yet.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 7, 2021

During SXSW festival in 2014, Oreos’ parent company, Mondelez International, came up with the idea of combining Twitter, 3D printing, and the classic Oreo cookie all into one experiential strategy. Smirnoff Comic Book Party. american express: 2014 us open. But in the end, the combination worked beautifully.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 16, 2023

They started sharing with us in 2014 at a customer advisory board event that they thought we would need to add another headquarter hotel sometime in the next decade. ” Let’s re-look at our analysis that we’ve gotten from third parties, our own data that’s on the books, what we’re hearing from our customers.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 15, 2023

For example, if budgets are tight and there were recent layoffs, you might not want to book The Venetian in Las Vegas. Check out what Bard had to say when we asked for conference venues for 1,500 people in Omaha, Nebraska: Editor’s note: This post was published in April 2014 and has been updated for relevance and quality.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Stirring Imaginations PRSA’s Media Mixer also tapped into the maker movement — artisans, crafters, DIYers, and inventors around the globe who are changing the world, Mark Hatch wrote in his 2017 book, The Maker Revolution: Building a Future on Creativity and Innovation in an Exponential World.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2018

The $241 million project was first proposed in 2011, designed in 2014, approved in December 2016 and finally broke ground July 19. Construction is 20-percent complete and the facility is accepting bookings for events beginning late 2020. Lexington Convention Center. Expansion of Lexington Convention Center has been a long time coming.

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Travel Daily Media

JUNE 7, 2014

According to the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s (TAT) New Delhi office, at least four large wedding groups with more than 1,500 guests have either already visited or confirmed their trips to Thailand between May and September 2014. The TAT said it is now expecting 1.07m Indian visitors in 2014. An Indian wedding in Hua Hin.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 19, 2022

Booking and occupancy. One hotel may operate hundreds of rooms, each booked individually, while a vacation rental is booked as a whole. A hotel room’s occupancy is determined by how many rooms have been booked for a night. Vacation rental occupancy is calculated as the number of nights booked in one time period.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 17, 2014

Companies booking meetings from 1st and 30th November 2014 in any of MARITIM’s 37 German hotels will receive a 20% discount on all of the hotel services for the event*. . This offer is not applicable to existing bookings. The post MARITIM offers 20% discount on German meetings appeared first on Travel Daily.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) hosted a record number of events in 2014. And 2015 looks set to be another busy year for KLCC, which has already been booked for a series of major events. The post Record breaking year for KLCC appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In April 2014, I renewed my certification for another five (5) years. Read the books and know the vocabulary! Don’t stay up all night quizzing yourself, reading the books, looking at flash cards, or stressing out. For those of you who don’t already know, that’s Certified Meeting Professional. My tip to you! You know this!

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In April 2014, I renewed my certification for another five (5) years. Read the books and know the vocabulary! Don’t stay up all night quizzing yourself, reading the books, looking at flash cards, or stressing out. For those of you who don’t already know, that’s Certified Meeting Professional. My tip to you! You know this!

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This is evident from statistics which show that the amount of exhibition space booked at the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre (BIECC) grew 19% in 2012 (compared to 1.6 The event takes place at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) from 24-26 March 2014. Bahrain’s MICE industry on growth path.

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Hotel Engine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Voted Best Boutique Hotel in 2014 by Savannah Magazine , the Marshall House, built in Georgia in 1851, features the original floors, doors, and other architectural quirks. Book this hotel at otherworldly rates on Hotel Engine. He hoped to finish writing the last chapters of a book. Marshall House. The Driskill Hotel.

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Business Traveler USA

JUNE 7, 2022

In 2014, Relevant Group, headed by Grant King, began to assemble real estate in the underdeveloped central Hollywood neighborhood with a plan to create a thriving cultural hub. Record Parlour owners Chadwick Hemus and Chris Honetschlager / Photo: Courtesy of The Record Store Book /Photos by Mike Spitz.

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Redfin

APRIL 18, 2023

The brewery was founded in 2014 by two friends, Wesley Keegan and Jay LeCharme, who shared a passion for brewing beer and a love of the outdoors. It’s the perfect place to sit in the sunshine and read a book or go for a walk.” Tailgate is a local brewery that has a number of locations around the area,” notes Dahlia Orchid Photography.

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Solimar International

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

billion of the previous programme (2014-2020). Empowering Artistry: Women Crafting in West Bangalore, India In 2021, the European Union expanded its Creative Europe programme , which now includes a budget of € 2.44 billion, compared to € 1.47

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