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How Hospitality Hiring Trends Can Improve Your Hotel Experience

Smart Meetings

With more jobs offering flexible remote work than ever before, former staff are reluctant to return to physically demanding positions with rigid schedules. Thanks to the increase in digital booking platforms and hotel apps, many business and leisure guests prefer to check in online rather than with a receptionist. will be remote.

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IMEX America is Back!: Day 1 Highlights from the Return to Meeting

Smart Meetings

The opening day of IMEX America 2021 at Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas was humming with people just happy to be back together. Caesars and Meet AC announced sustainability highlights from its newly released 2021 CSR Report —in a Leed-certified Augustus Tower villa suite—and the news (and views) are great.

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What The Great Resignation Means for the Events Industry

Endless Events

Remote Work: Understanding Productivity and Workplace Culture . Nick points to recent productivity records and remote work first. “I I was at an HR symposium recently and it was stated that 2021 was the most productive year in corporate America since World War II. Remote culture used to be a hook, line, and sinker.

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Language Interpretation Is the Next Wave in Virtual Meetings

Smart Meetings

The capabilities of Remote Simultaneous Interpretation ( RSI ) have reached new heights, elevating the events industry and the experiences it creates for attendees. Launched in the fall of 2021, its Language Access project provides a better solution for supporting language access at, specifically, meetings and events.

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2021 Shifts in Travel Behavior

Sojern

In February, we did a look back at 2020 and a look forward at 2021 data , using a combination of Sojern and PlaceIQ data to understand COVID-19 recovery and the bigger picture of the traveler through layering these insights together. January 6, 2019 – June 12, 2021 . January 5, 2021 – June 12, 2021 .

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Virtual and hybrid event trends for 2021 and beyond: Events Reimagined by Hubilo

The MICE Blog

Drag Taste’s ‘Sangria and Secrets’ is considered the world’s number one online experience. We created the “Sangria and Secrets with Drag Taste’” experience, for corporate and public, which today is the number one online interactive experience globally. A remote location is forever. People were crying and excited.

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Five Takeaways From DCI’s 2021 National Talent Research, Talent Wars

DCI

As of August 2021, the U.S. As the pandemic brought a new era of remote work, a shift in talent’s priorities came with it– potentially permanently changing the talent attraction landscape. . What talent finds online is oftentimes their first impression of a community.

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