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How Customized Generational Engagement Can Benefit Meeting Profs

Smart Meetings

By the year 2025, millennials age 35-39 will make up 19.1% Holsinger suggested that meeting planners will want remote work to continue to elevate the attendees’ desire to experience in-person engagement. The post How Customized Generational Engagement Can Benefit Meeting Profs appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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HBR Report: Company Meetings Critical for Supporting Remote Workforces

MeetingsNet

Specifically, 71 percent of the 425 survey respondents say that a primarily remote-work model can make employees feel disconnected from the organization. A broader list of benefits that managers cite can be seen in the chart.

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The 2024 Travel Outlook Survey Results: Appealing to the Traveler’s Niche Interest

Advanced Travel and Tourism

The Global Wellness Institute predicts wellness tourism will grow 21% by 2025, becoming the leading growth sector within the wellness category. Perhaps as a benefit from the increase in remote workers, there’s now greater choice about when to travel. ADVENTURE Mother Nature for the win. Nobody ever liked standing in line, right?

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IMEX 2022 ‘Pathways to Clarity’ Showcased Sustainability and Mental Wellness

Smart Meetings

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) powered Smart Monday and morning keynotes as part of a 20-year partnership that was formally extended through 2025. “We were doing sustainability before anyone thought it was remotely interesting because we thought it was the right thing to do,” said IMEX CEO Carina Bauer.

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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

Smart Meetings

Louis in 2025 in the expanded convention center campus. That format brought its own set of challenges and benefits. And the group, which now numbers 12,000 members and estimates a community of about 85,000 people proactively engaging with their content in some way during the year, will head back to St.

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Answering the Call of the Event Future

Smart Meetings

Sooner or later, when Coke finds out Pepsi is meeting in person and getting the benefits of young people interacting with more mature coworkers, Coke [and all the other competitive companies] will demand a return to a physical location,” he said. But Ferguson is optimistic because the result is not the same.

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New Zealand business events sector on track for sustainable growth

Travel Daily Media

This follows a successful FY23 of 84 bids worth $120m for New Zealand.Tourism New Zealand Chief Executive, René de Monchy says the business events industry globally is now in full recovery mode and there are good opportunities to attract high quality events to our shores that will benefit our economy, society, culture, and environment.