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New Rules for Planning a Corporate Meeting in Cuba in 2019

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Rules are changing again for event professionals following in the literary footsteps of Ernest Hemingway to Cuba for a corporate meeting. The category listed for planners and groups is “professional meetings.” We have organized dozens of corporate retreats, quarterly business meetings, sales rewards trips and much more.”.

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Mindful Meetings for the Full Mind

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The time has come for us to take proactive steps to address these challenges in the corporate meeting space. As a corporate meeting and event industry professional with over 25 years of experience, I have witnessed first-hand the negative impacts of work-related stress.

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New and Renovated: Unique Venues from the City to the Sea

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of meeting and event space across five venues can each accommodate up to 300 people. Event spaces are fully customizable, with the ability to host anything from board meetings to team-building retreats to performing arts. of event space, the resort’s panoramic ocean views are just one of the many things that draw planners here.

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Survey Says: Planners Are Scheduling On-Site Events in 2022

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Four out of 10 corporate meeting professionals are planning meetings in 2022, according to new survey from Greenwich Hospitality Group’s Delamar Hotels — a group of boutique hotels located in West Hartford, Southport, and Greenwich Harbor, Connecticut, and Traverse City, Michigan, that offer indoor and outdoor event spaces.

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New Rules for Planning a Corporate Meeting in Cuba in 2019

Smart Meetings

Rules are changing again for event professionals following in the literary footsteps of Ernest Hemingway to Cuba for a corporate meeting. The category listed for planners and groups is “professional meetings.” We have organized dozens of corporate retreats, quarterly business meetings, sales rewards trips and much more.”.

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Top Business Travel Trends Coming in 2024

Smart Meetings

Maybe a hybrid board travels to one member’s city of residence for a meeting and team building; maybe, with increased numbers of remote workers, meeting attendance drops as the option to attend remotely becomes more available—how do meeting planners then incentivize attendees to show up in person? Is incentive travel out?

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Hosting Your Perfect Meeting in Northern Virginia

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Also, more than 10 percent of Fairfax County’s 398 square miles is dedicated to public park space , so you’ll have access to all the big-city amenities that meeting planners need while never being too far from Mother Nature’s quiet retreats. Reason #3: We’ve got meeting space galore.

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