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Are Family-friendly Conferences in Your Future?

Smart Meetings

These events usually last three to four days, and when you add on travel time, attendees may be gone from their families for a week or longer. This can mean each attendee must find someone to care for their children or ask their spouse to do double duty while they are gone. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites.

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When Lower Room Rates Affect Your Attendees

Convene by PCMA

Here is the language: “The hotel commits to refrain from providing rates lower than those agreed upon in the contract, as well as special promotional rates, weekend packages, or additional benefits during the official meeting dates, unless these rates and benefits are equally applicable to all rooms within the group’s reserved block.”

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Benefits of Hiring a Professional Event Planner

Blue Spark Event Design

Utilizing these tools to enhance the corporate brand, entice customers, re-energize employees and educate attendees are all great reasons to gather. Below are some the benefits to hiring a professional event planner: Stress-free planning. Meetings, conferences, trade shows and events are essential for a company’s improvement.

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The Secret to Using A.I. Effectively: Persistence

MeetingsNet

Most meeting planners have likely discovered the benefits of ChatGPT and other generative-A.I. applications for creating titles and descriptions for event sessions as well as for marketing and other communications aimed at attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and others. While touted as a time-saver, generative A.I.

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Meetings for the Future: Focus on Venue’s Food and Beverage Offerings

DCI

Business travel can impact attendees, local communities, and the environment in many significant ways. They can also benefit meetings economically.  “Food and beverage is the highest expense on an event budget. This compares to 39% of respondents from the Americas. Do planners appreciate how much of that budget is thrown away?

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Product Launch: Ten Ways to Create a Lasting Impression

Blue Spark Event Design

Whether it’s setting the right brand tone, engaging your attendees in the brand narrative, or fostering a sense of pride in being connected to your company or product, product launches offer a prime chance to showcase your brand essence and achieve your launch objectives. Want to see examples?

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Navigating How to Move Forward After the Dobbs Decision

Convene by PCMA

And it’s really hard to communicate how site selection is made to our members to begin with. I think a leadership-to-leadership conversation with your DMO is really important because we can help change that narrative with your members, with your attendees, with people within your organization that may be for or against.