Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The first six months of 2022 were a busy time for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, as Dubai Business Events (DBE), Dubai’s convention bureau, as the two destinations collaborated to procure 99 event bookings over the coming years. Dubai’s ability to book this number of events are credited to the success of the country’s Expo 2020.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What began as podcast series True Spies , which debuted in 2020, and later, as a planned introduction of Spycon (postponed until 2022), a convention designed to bring these experts together with Hollywood and Silicon Valley, has shapeshifted into a venture meeting professionals will love.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2022

American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA)’s 2022 State of the Hotel Industry Report sees the hotel industry moving toward recovery “but the path will be uneven and potentially volatile, and full recovery is still several years away.” Meeting planners will note that AHLA reports 58% of meetings and events are expected to return.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

International travel grew gradually in 2021 after the quarantine of 2019, yet 2022 has seen a huge spike. With more countries opening their borders and lifting Covid restrictions, 2022 international travel has increased exponentially since 2019 and progressing towards pre-pandemic numbers. Why the Rapid Growth in International Travel?

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JANUARY 15, 2024

Brightspot aligned with the Incentive Research Foundation think tank this year and sponsored The IRF 2024 Trends Report [add link when published]. Not surprisingly, many predictions align, and our list here is split across segments of corporate meetings, incentive travel, channel incentives, and sales contests.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JANUARY 17, 2022

Covid-19 has stuck around longer than anyone expected, but consumers rebounded in 2021 with personal vacations, and 60% of companies resumed incentive trips in 3Q 21. In 2022, 90% of U.S. While presentations will run faster and individual sessions get shorter, the meal and refreshment breaks should slow down and get longer in 2022.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2023

According to United booking data, international bookings are already 15% higher than the same period in 2022. Meeting Planners Takeaway: With leisure and bleisure travel leading the way, expect overseas meetings and incentives to get a massive boost for bookings this year as well as in longer lead planning.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

If lead time is short and hotel occupancy is high, then hotel revenue managers know that the remaining rooms can be sold to last-minute corporate bookings at full rate. Advance bookings for hotels are cheaper. INCENTIVE TRAVEL. All-Inclusive resorts are thriving in 2022 and looking strong for 2023. Save 16% in Mexico.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 13, 2022

Perks for individual guests and meeting planners have been enhanced to celebrate the milestone. With locations in more than 100 countries, there is a strong incentive for meeting planners to take advantage of all the benefits available to Rewards members. What’s In It For Guests?

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

My interest deepened in large part from working with MICE (Meeting, Incentive Travel, Conferences and Exhibitions) destinations and venues that focused on these topics. Here are event design ideas inspired by my visit to Art Basel 2022. Place books about the event subject at your event. Congress Center Basel foyer.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

— JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 13, 2022. Destinations International Released New Destination Booking Agreement. On Wednesday, Destinations International released the Destination Booking Agreement (DBA), a new toolkit, establishing mutually agreeable terms to provide accountability to protect both event planners and destinations.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Brightspot is honored to be recognized as a top meeting & incentive travel company on the MeetingsNet 2022 CMI 25 list. This top meeting planner list from MeetingsNet is a leading resource for businesses to find experienced event-planning services. It’s a momentous occasion for Brightspot. – Mike May, President.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Destinations International Large Market Roundtable outlined initiatives to establish Destination Booking Agreement Guidelines to create certainty for all parties. It is time as meeting planners are starting to book again,” said Evy Garcias, Director of Sales & Marketing for Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Puerto Rico Golf & Beach Resort.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The good news is that the attraction could hold even more widespread appeal as classic and up-and-coming acts are being booked in more stadiums than before the pandemic. Multi-platinum guitar-metal band Incubus is booked for a special two-night show there in March. Easy Incentives. Synchronicity.

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Achieve Incentives

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you trying to plan for your 2022 event budget and not quite sure where to start? In this blog, we walk you through a few of the surprise expenses our team has been encountering as we plan and lead incentive trips and meetings around the world. Because of that, incentive winners and event attendees are looking for something new.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 7, 2022

All-inclusive Hyatt Zilara and Ziva luxury resorts line the most spectacular shores in Mexico and the Caribbean and have each been designed to deliver extraordinary events and guest experiences for savvy planners and their participants. Locations include: Jamaica: Hyatt Zilara and Ziva Rose Hall . All-new All-inclusive Experiences.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 11, 2022. JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 12, 2022. Events Industry Council (EIC) in partnership with its global EIC Equity Task Force, released the results of its 2022 Equity Benchmarking Study at an IMEX press conference. SmartMeetings (@SmartMeetings) October 11, 2022.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Similarly, Southwest Business Meetings product offers discounted fares, incentives and even name changes for groups of 25 or fewer. Now, the meeting planner can leverage a company’s umbrella agreement for set discounts (say between two city pairs) based on availability rather than paying market pricing. “It

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

. — JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 13, 2022. Destinations International Released New Destination Booking Agreement. Members of the @destintl Large Market Roundtable announced the new Destinations Booking Agreement at #IMEX22 , establishing best practices to protect both destinations and #business #events #strategists.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While a thriving, walkable downtown is certainly a huge draw—and one that makes things oh-so-easy on attendees, Reno Tahoe offers a number of benefits that make life much simpler for planners too. You see, we’ve worked hard to put together customizable incentives and rewards that meet the needs of your group.

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Unique World Global Destinations

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Incentive group travel, a key part of this sector, has been hit hard. Business incentive trips are a powerful motivator for employees and can increase job satisfaction. What Is Incentive Group Travel? Incentive group travel is a sub-set of the MICE planning sector (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions).

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 5, 2023

Housed in one convenient location, planners can search per location to unlock the exclusive offers and perks. The aptly named ‘Meet How You Meet’ campaign ensures an unparalleled level of personalisation with 121 custom-built offers from iconic IHG MICE hotels and resorts across Bangkok, Singapore, Vietnam and beyond. Shoes optional.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2022

Its infrastructure paves the way for highly successful business events and corporate incentive groups. Every venue has its own COVID-safe plan which provides clarity to planners. Opening in 2022, the hotly anticipated The Ritz-Carlton will take centre stage in the city skyline – pegged to be one of the tallest hotel in Australia.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 18, 2022

From up-and-coming talent to established voices, these event influencers have emerged as the Top Event Experience Leaders of 2022 based on your votes. Based on your votes, and in no particular order, here are the Top 55 Event Experience Leaders of 2022: Akosua Boadi-Agyemang. And they haven’t escaped your notice! LinkedIn. .

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A relatively new arrival to the Cabos San Lucas hotel scene is The Cape, A Thompson Hotel —an alluring event space for business planners that opened in 2015. More : Incentive Experience – Mexico. of meeting space—and it awaits planners looking to book a business meeting abroad. The property has 25,000 sq.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

(Adobe Stock Photo) Christine “Shimo” Shimasaki, CDME, CMP Last year, when the Louisville Tourism and their Client Advisory Council (CAC) met to discuss what industry challenges they wanted to address from both a planner and supplier perspective, registration forecasting rose to the top.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 27, 2023

AMSTERDAM – Meetingselect , leading marketplace for meeting venues, group bookings, and workspaces, announces the appointment of Rachel Havas as Cluster Director of Latin and North America (LATAM & NORAM). An event is confirmed by a meeting planner only seven minutes after the request has been released.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

— JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 11, 2022. — JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 12, 2022. Events Industry Council (EIC) in partnership with its global EIC Equity Task Force, released the results of its 2022 Equity Benchmarking Study at an IMEX press conference. — SmartMeetings (@SmartMeetings) October 11, 2022.

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Hotel Engine

JUNE 25, 2022

MICE is short for Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conferences, and Exhibitions. With business travel now being worth over $750 billion annually , these bookings can be lucrative for hotel properties. Investments to make properties more attractive for MICE travel can yield a great return as the hotel nets more of these high-value bookings.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 26, 2023

Most of the larger hotels here are locally owned, the Space Needle is locally owned, so there’s an added incentive for the businesses community here to work together,” adding that many community leaders and those involved have either grown up or continued to live in Seattle and are passionate about guiding the city to a prosperous future.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On Monday night, a huge welcome ceremony and celebration welcomed thousands of international and local buyers and exhibitors to the 2023 Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings & Event at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium.

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DCI

MARCH 3, 2023

Canvas Meetings & Incentives, and Streamlinevents. Both destinations and meeting planners alike weighed in on the work that’s been done, and the work that’s left to do by destinations for their partners, their communities, and meeting planners looking to book events.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 21, 2023

Business Events Industry Aotearoa (BEIA) post-MEETINGS buyer survey shows $157 million will be placed over the next five years following the two-day event in Wellington this June — a significant increase on 2022’s results. We are securing strong advance bookings for the next five years.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 25, 2023

The FCM India Meetings & Events team were busy in 2022 sending 150,000+ corporate customers around the world. 1) Strong Demand Continues The surge in bookings in 2023 continues to shape the sector. per cent from 2022 to 2030 to reach USD1,563.3

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Heitzner commented on Marriott’s move in April to cut third-party planner commissions to 7 percent: “It was a time in the industry that we thought was the right time. He said the concept has generated a lot of interest from the meetings industry, especially for incentives and VIP stays.

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inVOYAGE

JUNE 23, 2022

Here’s what she had to say: What impact have the past couple of years had on health and wellbeing, and what role can incentives play in improving workplace performance? We have referenced two studies in particular in our 2022 POINT3 insights paper. I feel that 2022 is a time of transition as people learn to adjust.

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