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

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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Experts offer tips and ideas for meeting professionals As the year slowly comes to a close, many financial and insurance meeting planners may be thinking about what they should be keeping on their radar. Did 2023 reignite the Golden Age of Travel? Cathy Diem believes so.

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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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MeetingsNet

MAY 15, 2023

Recent news that pilots at American, Southwest, and United airlines are threatening to strike might be fraying the nerves of meeting professionals concerned about their upcoming events. Here’s a wrap-up of the latest news on airline pilot contracts, and some perspective on the possibility of a strike.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

McGee, senior fellow for aviation and travel, American Economic Liberties Project, told the Committee that “the nation’s airline industry is broken.” Any travel credit if accepted in lieu of a refund should never expire. Meeting Planners Takeaway U.S. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: Can ‘Broken’ U.S.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. Originally this was for a medical company; we were setting up a meeting…[where] you had to be vaccinated to attend, so we weren’t really focused on protocols for the event. You’ve been here before.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 15, 2024

Almost seven out of 10 of those planners chose “talent is priced well/good value” as a reason for choosing a speakers bureau, making it the top response. By juxtaposing the responses to these two different questions, one could assume that planners don’t see the speakers they select as critical to moving the needle on registrations.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

If you are an event or meeting planner you’ve heard of PSAV. The news makes for shaky ground and uncertainty for meeting and event planners nationwide. So why should event and meeting planners care?What It could also mean a lack of choice for event and meeting planners and more. October 2017.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 18, 2020

Industry attorney Joshua Grimes provides perspective on clauses that must changed for future meeting agreements. One of the best-attended sessions of the 17th annual Pharma Forum conference for medical-event planners, held virtually this year from June 15-19, was “Meetings Contracts in the Post-COVID Era.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once a legally binding contract is in place, it sets the stage for easier conversations,” said Dustin Arnhem, senior vice president of sales with Visit Baltimore. Caesars and Meet AC announced sustainability highlights from its newly released 2021 CSR Report —in a Leed-certified Augustus Tower villa suite—and the news (and views) are great.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Events.Hilton.com site is being enhanced to allow planners with groups of up to 35 attendees to book meetings online. Hilton has announced plans to roll out a direct-booking tool for small, simple meetings in early 2024. The new meeting tool is one of two Hilton initiatives aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses.

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ITA Group

APRIL 13, 2021

Event Contracting Challenges & Meeting Professional Tips. This means consumers are going to be spending their savings on vacations and other experiences when it becomes safe to travel again. because of the complexities of traveling outside the country—limiting the space that is available for groups even more.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

If your meetings budget has kept up with price increases over the past few years, you’re among the lucky. The results: Most key meeting expenses are up well over 20 percent even as inflation across the economy has fallen. Corporate planners are contending with a different set of challenges.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s a baffling trend, and one that hotel guests and meeting planners alike must contend with: The percentage of U.S. In May 2022, as the Covid pandemic waned and travel started to return, an average of 12 positions were unfilled at each property. Some large hotel companies are seeking to alleviate this issue. &

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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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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2022

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. This week, the CDC raised their assessment of travel risk for monkeypox from level one (practice usual precautions) to level two (practice enhanced precautions). Key findings include.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 5, 2023

The post IHG Hotels & Resorts launch ‘Meet How You Meet,’ across SE Asia, Korea, Australasia and Japan appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Housed in one convenient location, planners can search per location to unlock the exclusive offers and perks.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2024

Hotel del Coronado continues its legacy as a premier destination for meetings and events with a renewed focus on personalized, boutique meeting experiences with the launch of its new “ Plan With Ease: Boutique Meetings ” program.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2024

Hotel del Coronado continues its legacy as a premier destination for meetings and events with a renewed focus on personalized, boutique meeting experiences with the launch of its new “ Plan With Ease: Boutique Meetings ” program.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2022

A new MeetingsNet survey finds nearly 70 percent of planners expect fewer attendees on site due to high airfares, while nearly 60 percent have narrowed their destination options due to potential air delays and cancellations. In fact, one planner said that “canceled flights are currently our biggest concern above all else, even Covid.”.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of websites for event planners so some of the hardest-working professionals can complete every task on their list. Skift Meetings (formerly EventMB) Formerly known as EventMB, Skift Meetings was founded in 2007 as one of the first blogs for event professionals. Ready to dive straight in?

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ADMEI

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Even the most meticulously planned events can fall prey to natural disasters, a pandemic, vendor cancellations, and keynote speaker travel delays. Will travel routes be affected? Contracts : Are your contracts with venues and vendors solid? What is Risk Management? Is another expected?

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Stova

MAY 25, 2023

Selecting the best venue for your event is one of the most important decisions planners face. Meet with key stakeholders and decision makers to align on and specify event goals. Filter out venues that don’t meet your criteria. But you also want the “wow” factor. How Do You Source a Venue? Leverage technology. Manage your bids.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2021

Meeting professionals leading the way back to the convention center are increasingly finding themselves between a pandemic and a hard decision. As Anh Nguyen, head of community engagement at the serendipitous networking platform twine pointed out in her guest post, “ Jury, Judge or…Event Planner ?” was an early question.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Recent research finds luxury travelers shifting their accommodation preferences, while the group segment is running well ahead of the transient-business segment. The result: Less negotiability for meetings. From the wide view, the hotel industry should expect only a modest rise in demand (1.8 percent) and guest-room rate (3.0

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. At Outlook Forum, Visit California’s recent conference for travel industry professionals, research showed that the Golden State continues to appeal to attendees.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 17, 2023

Planners should look more carefully at the fine print and consider changing some terms, says industry attorney Joshua Grimes. If you're the event planner—or the host hotel, which can also invoke force majeure—you would have to do so” within the next few days, he notes. Joshua Grimes, Esq., What Are the Alternatives?

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Endless Events

APRIL 7, 2020

And while a lot of planners’ attention is focused on virtual events , a part is also concerned with cancellation. “Force majeure is a legal term that’s been around for a long time and it’s in your contracts, but it’s separate from your contracts”, Josh explains. So, what do you have to do?

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What does your hotel contract say about surcharges and fees? But what is good for workers in Los Angeles is likely a red flag for corporate travel managers and meeting professionals, says Joshua L. For a 100-person, two-night meeting, the new charge will set you back more than $1,000. Grimes, Esq.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Mike May said he long believed 50 percent of the meeting planner’s work is expected, the other half unexpected. May is president and owner of Bright Spot Incentives & Events, and one of the guests on the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “Meet the Secret Weapon in the Quest to Return to F2F.”.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

American Express Meetings & Events used the IMEX America show to present its latest forecast for the meetings and events landscape based on survey results from 500 planners. Planning for duty of care towards attendees is another item that’s moved far up the list of planners’ duties.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Smart Meetings debriefed with Tahira Endean, head of program with IMEX Group, about what worked and what will be changed for next year. We wanted to create a tool kit of things meeting professionals needed to know in 2022,” she said. million sq. of convention center space and upgraded data infrastructure. A Focused Approach. “We

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 9, 2021

But the multi-million-dollar question is this: Can meetings-focused hotels hold on that long? With more than two million people vaccinated every day from here on out, it’s a fair assessment that [July through September] will see leisure travel returning as well as some of the corporate transient and group travel.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of websites for event planners so some of the hardest-working professionals can complete every task on their list. Skift Meetings (formerly EventMB) Formerly known as EventMB, Skift Meetings was founded in 2007 as one of the first blogs for event professionals. Ready to dive straight in?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 20, 2022

Of particular interest to many planners and attendees in 2022 is what can be done to account for and manage their carbon footprint. Read IMEX CEO Carina Bauer’s goals for the return to European meeting. Questions such as: “Where are we meeting?” “How Learn more with our Green Meeting Resource Guide.

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Fox World Travel

JULY 6, 2021

Meetings are making a strong come back and are experiencing a visible transformation along the way. With a heightened focus on the individual safety and comfort of all attendees, planners have new challenges they are facing in their everyday tasks. The post Transforming Meetings appeared first on Fox World Travel.

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