Smart Meetings

JUNE 9, 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. Are Flight Delays in Your Future? Meeting planners and participants are looking warily at the website FlightAware and noting the scores of cancellations in the United States alone on a daily basis. On June 9, for instance, at 2:00 p.m., there were already 1,813 cancellations and over 2,000 delays. “There does not seem to be an end in sight for the chro

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Endless Events

JUNE 9, 2022

In-person events might be back, but some things in the events industry are not going back to how things used to be before the pandemic. Take online supplier relationships, for example. It’s a relatively new phenomenon in the industry, but now that the Event Brew team got a taste of it, they refuse to go back. The digital world is teeming with opportunities to build relationships.

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Traveler's Q

JUNE 9, 2022

To plan a successful business event, event professionals need to multitask many different things. This can be quite challenging as you work with many others in the hospitality and event planning industry and there are many moving parts. In this article, we will tell you about corporate event planning techniques for MICE. The post MICE Planning Techniques for Incentive Travel Professionals appeared first on Traveler's Q.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

“We’re now reaching unprecedented levels of stress that will challenge our ability to cope,” said Arthur C. Evans Jr., CEO of the American Psychological Association. (Martin Sati illustration). The American Psychological Association (APA) has been conducting an annual survey measuring stress levels felt by Americans for 15 years; its most recent “ Stress in America ” survey was released in March and looked at the impact the combined weight of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia

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TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave

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EHL Insights

JUNE 9, 2022

Part of the Accor hotel group, Swisso?tel was founded in 1980 and is a world-leading travel and lifestyle hotel brand. Today it numbers more than 30 hotels globally including flagship properties such as Swisso?tel The Bosphorus in Istanbul, Swisso?tel The Stamford in Singapore and Swisso?tel Chicago. Here we share insights into the green personas and recommendations identified in a recent EHL Student Business Project commissioned to enhance Swisso?

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

EduCon speaker Andrew Davis told a surprising story of how a closet-organizing company saved itself during the pandemic. (Jacob Slaton Photography). Leaders should speak last, write Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen in Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams from Isolated to All In. “When leaders share their thoughts about a topic and then ask for their team’s opinion, it’s too late.

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DCI

JUNE 9, 2022

As the summer heats up and travelers scramble to navigate the loosening restrictions of a persistent pandemic, destinations need to keep their target audiences in mind. And one target audience not to miss is the largely affluent and travel hungry Canadian market. With their own particularities, and a bilingual culture to boot, attracting Canadians in the best of times requires reflection and finesse.

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inVOYAGE

JUNE 9, 2022

We’re all acutely aware of just how much the working landscape has changed in the last 2 years. The shift to remote and hybrid models has thrown up huge, unexpected challenges. But once we mastered the art of Zoom, Teams, blurring the background to obliterate any embarrassing “scenery” and avoiding appearing as a cat/in our pyjamas, well, surprise, surprise, many of us quite liked not being in the office.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

We get it, you’re busy. So, the Convene editors have curated the latest tips and trends in the world of work for you. Take a look at what caught our eye this past week. Hybrid Competence Is the Newest Soft Skill With an Outsize Impact on Your Career. After two years of working in a distributed environment as a result of the pandemic, some workers might not realize the breadth of skills they’ve developed as a result, writes Business Insider.

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inVOYAGE

JUNE 9, 2022

If you’re looking for a truly memorable way to motivate and reward the top performers in your organisation, you need look no further than Qatar. The inVOYAGE team have been so impressed by Doha as a location for luxury incentive travel, that it has been selected as the location for the next global luxury incentives showcase in October 2022. “Qatar is a growing hub hosting major international conferences, sporting and business events over the next couple of years” says Mr.

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The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.

Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

“What’s different about Notified [is] we allow your brand to come to life and we give you the tools to self service the entire event experience and truly own your event.,” said Allie Magyar, chief product officer of Notified. When it comes to event technology, it’s no secret that many event organizers feel the struggle — according to recent research conducted by Skift Meetings , about only a little more than half of event professionals “consider themselves comfortable or savvy with virtual even

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inVOYAGE

JUNE 9, 2022

Qatar is our next event destination, and what a destination that is… History, tradition, culture and world-famous hospitality go hand-in-hand with incredible landscapes, incomparable architecture and art, the wildest of wildlife, fine dining and plenty of amazing adventures. Qatar has also been ranked as the 3rd safest country in the world and, in 2022, will play host to the much-anticipated FIFA World Cup.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

Loews Sapphire Falls Resort connects to Loews Royal Pacific Resort to offer a total of 2,000 rooms and 247,000 square feet of meeting space. (Photos courtesy of Universal Orlando Resort). Universal Orlando Resort is designed to provide immersive, inspiring, and entertaining meeting experiences. From its one-of-a-kind themed environments to its wide array of meeting solutions, Universal Orlando is fully equipped to help event organizers plan engaging experiences that forge the connection between

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I-Meet

JUNE 9, 2022

Despite the interruptions during the pandemic, the events industry remains as strong as ever. The global market for events is even expected to reach a value of $2,194.40 billion by 2028. In part, this can be a.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

A 2021 workplace mental health survey found that mental health challenges are now the norm among employees across all organizational levels. More than eight out of 10 respondents to a workplace mental health survey published last year reported at least one workplace factor that had a negative impact on their mental health — the most common being emotionally draining work and challenges with work/life balance.

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Special Events

JUNE 9, 2022

Special Events business news

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where. Megan Martin. JUNO has promoted Megan Martin, CMP, DES, MPA to the newly created role of director of engagement. In this role, Martin will partner with community and event managers to successfully engage communities and increase member value. Martin previously served as account executive at JUNO.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 9, 2022

An EduCon attendee adds a Post-it Note with her event takeaway to the Spark Wall, one of Storycraft Lab’s interactive initiatives at the event. (Jacob Slaton Photography). It might look like just a wall of colorful sticky notes, but researchers have coined a term for collaboration by Post-It: “shared artifacts.” And for two UC Irvine professors in informatics who studied how groups best work and think together, Gary and Judith Olson, creating shared artifacts such as sticky notes posted on a wal

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