Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At Muir, Autograph Collection , an oceanfront property in Halifax, Canada, planners who are seeking a unique and memorable setting for their event can book meeting spaces with 360-degree water views, or even rent the hotel’s 36-foot private yacht. W Philadelphia , which offers more than 45,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Planning at least three months ahead could save as much as 10 percent on the bottom line, according to a new 2019 Meetings & Events Future Trends study from Carlson Wagonlit Travel Meetings and Events (CWT M&E). Outside of these booking windows, potential savings dip by 5–10 percent, the report found.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2022

Do you sometimes wish you could book the most reasonably priced rental car by clicking a few buttons on your phone? The travel management company CWT just added car rental and train booking to their app and website to give travelers more independence in making their reservations at a time when travel costs are reaching historic highs. .

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

People are happy getting back to reclaim their life and their joy and people are traveling. Travel is something people are prioritizing. While these drawbacks have not yet put a dent in leisure travel demand, if this trend continues, travelers will reach a breaking point and some airline brands may be damaged.”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Experts weigh in on what needs to change to work together better Editor’s Note : Hospitality sales consultant Steve Steinhart will be speaking at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience in Monterey, California, Nov. If all the meetings that we have re-scheduled for 2024 come through, we will show a very nice gain in the group market.”

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 9, 2024

The post Meetingselect is using Travelport+ to enable direct and preferred hotel bookings appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Meetingselect has recently started working with Travelport, a global technology company that powers travel bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 28, 2021

Smart Meetings got a sneak peek at the Event Leadership Institute’s (ELI) opening general session of their upcoming Business, Design & Strategy Summit on June 3, The State of the Industry: Where We Are With In-Person Events. For the next 3-6 months, many corporations aren’t holding meetings due to company travel restrictions.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hubli, an online-booking system for simple meetings, now has a tool that venues can use to display available meeting space in real time. The API covers both instant book and RFPs so they can decide to connect both or start with RFP only.” According to Delaney, “Adoption is high. …

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A fter a long wait and much talk of “when will China open to meetings?” Hong Kong’s SAR Government has finally announced the lifting of “all mandatory PCR test requirements for inbound travelers on arriving in Hong Kong , as well as the lifting of the Vaccine Pass, which allowed access to specified premises, and other measures.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 7, 2023

The post The top mistakes team assistants make when booking business travel for bosses appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Corporate Traveller asked survey respondents about nine mistakes that their team assistants, or someone in their organisation, has made when booking travel.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

The country was one of the last major tourist destinations to drop hard-line restrictions on travel, opening finally to travelers on October of last year. Travel Association, warned, “This summer’s travel demand will be as strong as we’ve seen since before the pandemic, and potentially the strongest ever.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the holiday season nears, travel demand is on the rise. While leisure travel was the first to pick up steam and remains the driving force behind a new surge of tourism, business travel has been gaining momentum over the last quarter, too. For business travel, the most booked destinations are Chicago, Atlanta and New York.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Plus strategies for managing increased business travel costs in 2024 Business travel and event cost are not increasing as steeply as they were in 2022, but they’re still going up, according to 2024 Business Travel Forecast , a new study by CWT and Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). In 2022, air travel saw a 72.2%

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Smart Meetings Florida Experience elevated the gathering at every turn. Smart Meetings CEO Marin Bright The precise mixture of authentic connections, elevated experiences and innovative ideas is Smart Meetings CEO Marin Bright’s recipe for making everyone feel at home when they come together to get business done.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 14, 2023

Traveling safe is not just about gadgets and GPS, it’s also about common sense, say these experts Laura S. is a travel planner who often finds herself in unfamiliar cities in the US and abroad on hotel site inspections and destination FAMs. “I When you travel in those countries you are under their legal system.”

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 16, 2022

There are plenty of travel planning mistakes that we all make at least once or twice. Especially if you’re booking multiple rooms at once for your colleagues — or you’ll be jetting off to multiple business meetings around the country — accidents can happen. Booking Something Cheaper Out of Town. Table of Contents.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Predictions of a mass consolidation of the meetings industry have been swirling since the World Health Organization started advising lockdowns in early 2020 to “smooth the curve” of what was then known as novel coronavirus. The post A Unique Meetings Consolidation Model Grows appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Skift Meetings

JUNE 22, 2022

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. The New Marketplace Philosophy for Meeting Bookings.

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Motivation Excellence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We’ve had a lot to talk about over the last four years in our incentive travel industry! And they apply to single travelers, as well as incentive groups. More stringent rule structures could also come into play, as companies start requiring higher performance goals to qualify for incentive group travel.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The skills and lessons learned by these experts in intelligence can be fascinating—and useful in the nonespionage world—and now many of these specialists from the CIA, FBI, KGB and Mossad are for hire for your next meeting or training session for keynotes, corporate training and team development.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2021

With business travel slowly making its way to pre-pandemic levels, Kayak is aiming to make the return to travel booking easier. When travel came to nearly a full stop in 2020, it gave us an unexpected runway to think about the future of business travel,” said Steve Hafner, CEO of the online travel agency (OTA).

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Department of State has travel warnings out for two prime locations for spring break revelers: The Bahamas (level 2) and Jamaica (level 3). Joe Reise, Motivation Excellence Director, Travel Purchasing, Planning and Supplier Relations, shares several tips to travel safely no matter the location. Buy travel insurance.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Countries are continuing to relax their previously strict travel policies as Covid is perceived to be relatively under control. With most people vaccinated and fewer reports of positive cases, Covid related mandates in the travel industry have been relaxed. So, the question is—where are the travel trends going in 2023?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 22, 2022

The 10th NYC Experience Wellness and Travel Media event presented by Organic Spa Media on June 17, 2022 highlighted five major wellness trends that meeting planners should be aware of in booking spa experiences or resorts with wellness-centered offerings. These trends have relevance for planners in a variety of ways.

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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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

6 tips for a smooth European event from an international DMC expert If it seems to you everyone is taking their incentive meeting to Europe this year, you are not alone. Start Early The first tip is to book early and contract early! Read More : A Manifesto for Good Travel and Tourism 3.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 16, 2022

There simply aren’t enough cars to meet corporate demand,” says Sesilia Kalss, senior consulting manager of Global Business Consulting for American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) in the company’s latest white paper, Business Travel in 2022. The Travel Manager’s Role Is Changing. Travelers Need Confidence.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Editor’s Note: This article is the second part of Smart Meetings December 2021 issue Dash of Smart column. . Frustration with the current state of sourcing meetings predates the global pandemic. There has also been a shortening of booking windows almost throughout 2021. sidebar] Small Meeting DIY Solutions Emerging.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

The good news is that travel is well positioned to withstand any downturn,” he said. Let’s take a deeper dive into why events and business travel might float above the turbulence. Travel Priorities First, some history. The mood was hugely positive even though everyone agreed about a recession coming,” he reported.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2023

What does that mean for the meetings industry? While there are books, movies and endless lectures on the potential dystopian outcomes of wholesale adoption of artificial intelligence, I like to take the optimistic viewpoint. Tools enable us to come together and work on something greater than ourselves, as do meetings.

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Dana Communications

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Techy Travel in 2023: What Resorts & Hotels Need to Know Have you noticed how much easier it is to travel nowadays? With so many possibilities for properties to grow their business through travel tech, we’ve compiled a list of some of the top advancements below. The Latest Wi-Fi: What’s in a number?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Check out these experiences available for your next group meeting. of meeting space across 15 meeting spaces, 189 guest rooms, expert meeting planners, advanced A/V services, high-speed Wi-Fi and gourmet catering. Lotte Hotel Seattle was named winner of Travel + Leisure ’s World Best Awards in 2023.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“Everyone has a dog now,” Jenn Glynn, managing partner with Meeting Encore, stated this week in a conversation with Philip Eidsvold, vice president of strategic alliances at One10, about the changing demands of attracting attendees to in-person incentive trips. Guest safety has become a focal aspect of incentive travel planning.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 26, 2021

“It is therefore imperative that we are inclusive ,” says Gloria Guevara, president and CEO of London-based World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). We look forward to seeing these guidelines make real change within the workforce,” Guevara says, adding that providing accessible travel is both a social imperative and a business opportunity.

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Leonardo

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Instantaneous Customer Interaction: Picture this scenario: a travel shopper visits your hotel’s website with some questions. The savvy travel shopper is typically visiting many websites before they make a booking. or, “Do you do group rate discounts?” – they’re more likely to move on to the next step and book!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The meetings and events industry is returning with a lot of confidence, and face-to-face gatherings are trending upward with the potential to surpass pre-pandemic numbers. These gatherings illustrated some emerging trends we are seeing that may require meeting professionals to rethink how they approach gathering. Meeting Trend No.1:

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Hotel Engine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Booking accommodation for a large group? But Hotel Engine is on a mission to radically simplify trip management, and we’re already revolutionizing group travel. In this article, we’ll provide 8 tips to help you book the perfect stay for your team. Sometimes you need to book last minute. We know: it can be complicated.

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