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TWT: Monkeypox May Be a Red Herring, Bleisure Booms

Smart Meetings

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. Read More : What You Don’t Know About the Future of Attendee Safety Could Put You at Risk. Monkeypox Takes the Front Page But Are Covid Rates the Real Story? Luggage being loaded on board.

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Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business

Smart Meetings

When it comes to protocols, fortunately we are in New York, where the Key to New York mandate requires that all meeting attendees are vaccinated. We have seen that this instills confidence amongst the attendees and puts them at ease. Each person is required to show proof of vaccination before entering the meeting space.

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Make Your Event Wi-Fi Not Suck – #EventIcons Episode 148

Endless Events

As an event planner, it is your job to make sure your attendee’s valuable information is safely secured. There is so much information and data held on event websites and registration platforms such as credit cards, flight info, home addresses and more, it is a jackpot of information for hackers.

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Unlock the potential of AI in your event planning and execution!

Convene by PCMA

From event planners, marketers, and venue coordinators to production specialists, this course enhances your AI skills within the context of event execution. With AI-driven insights, participants will gain a deeper comprehension of attendee preferences, behaviors, and trends.

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How This Sustainability Leader Found Purpose In Her Field

Convene by PCMA

After spending the early part of her career working in corporate America as part of the incentives and recognition division for telecommunications company MCI, she found her purpose in the world of sustainability when she was offered the opportunity to join the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in 2003.

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PEACHY events: Discover the best MICE location in Thailand

Travel Daily Media

Vathanakul went on to enthuse: “What’s more, with event attendees staying on-site, we are able to identify which guest rooms belong to which conference or function. ” “Organisers love PEACH”. This means, if there are last-minute changes in the schedule, we can send an updated timetable via the in-room TVs. Helicopter landing pad.

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How Event Professionals Can Think Like Futurists

Convene by PCMA

If you’re really working at trying to go back to the way things were before COVID,” he said, “you’re doing yourself an injustice, regardless of whether you’re a meeting planner or you’re running a hotel or a catering business.”. As a planner, if you hate virtual,” Burrus said, “it’s kind of like hating change. There may be,” she said.

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