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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. If you, your staff, or attendees are experiencing depression, anxiety or other strong emotions, professional help is available and worthwhile. His safety topics have included site selection, event safety, emergency operations and crisis communications.

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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Cautious, Ready & Excited: Freeman’s Event Research Report, which has been gauging attendee and exhibitor sentiment every few months since the pandemic started, shows their Confidence Index rising from.75 75 in February to.81 81 in April. Exhibitors similarly chose “Cautious” and “Ready” in equal measure. San Francisco and Chicago.

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Cvent: Q3 RFPs Much Higher

Smart Meetings

The report analyzed group booking behavior among meeting professionals who use Cvent Supplier Network to predict trends for the next two years. The conclusions of the Cvent report support the notion that site selection is much like pumpkin picking. On average, RFPs have grown by 11.4 percent in the past 12 months.

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AMEX Study: Increasing Hotel Costs and Lower Commissions Could Cut into Meeting Agendas

Smart Meetings

The 2019 Global Meetings and Events Forecast survey found that North American planners anticipate per-attendee costs ranging between $1,200 and $1,700, depending on meeting type. Commission cuts that made headlines in 2018 are having impacts on the bottom lines of meeting budgets based on trends in this report. percent. .

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Top Event Agencies: The Ultimate Directory (2019)

Bizzaboo

We've compiled the most comprehensive list of US event agencies on the internet for 2019. According to the Event Marketing 2019 Report , events are the single-most effective marketing channel. Thier missions is to deliver high-value, high-impact experiences to event attendees and the people they influence. Look no further.

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Bookmark These Top 30 Websites for Event Planners

Bizzaboo

The site offers daily articles, industry reports, webinars, and more. Over the last three years, Skift Meetings has hosted more than 80,000 attendees at 26 webinars and events, published 27 reports, written more than 500 articles, and more. If you’re not subscribed to this blog’s updates, now is the time!

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Navigating How to Move Forward After the Dobbs Decision

Convene by PCMA

Starting in 2019, we put into all of our contracts a frustration of purpose clause, which basically states that central to our mission is that we respect reproductive choice and access to health care. And it’s really hard to communicate how site selection is made to our members to begin with. It’s a quandary.