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Here’s Why Your Event Needs Creative Services!

Endless Events

Oh, creativity ! This beautiful ability translates our ideas and imagination into reality. The events industry is seeping with it. After all, couldn’t events be considered a work of art? Just like any other artistic expression, event planning is a process, defined by diligence, open-mindedness, patience, resourcefulness, collaboration, and of course, imagination and innovation.

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Flying Taxis and Self-directed Luggage: Predicting the Future of Events

Smart Meetings

What does the future look like to you? Does it involve space travel? Social media glasses? Teleportation? How will all these new developments shape the events industry? This is the tantalizing topic Brian Ludwig, senior vice president of sales for Cvent , tackles in Smart Meetings’ most recent webinar, “One Step Ahead, Predicting the Future of Event Technology.”.

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What is a Destination Management Organization (DMO) and Why Should Destinations Care?

Solimar International

Why do some destinations thrive, while others do not? All global destinations compete for visitors and money. They need the support of destination management organizations (DMOs) to help market, manage, succeed. But how and why? This article answers the question: what is a DMO and why the tourism industry should care about them. So, what is a DMO? DMO stands for destination management organization, though these are often referred to as destination marketing organizations.

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Travel for Business is Dearly Missed, Survey Says

Business Traveler USA

Business travelers miss traveling for business, according to a recent survey commissioned by Hilton and Morning Brew of more than 7,000 of the news site’s readers. While some have returned to traveling for business, 87% of respondents say they miss hopping from city to city to pursue their work. Most of all, business travelers miss visiting new places (66%), discovering local culture (41%), discussing projects in person (37%), and attending in-person conferences (36%).

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COVID-19 Travel Consumer Sentiment Study

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

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Flower Power: How to Elevate Your Events with Florals

Special Events

Top tips from a floral and décor maven on how to use flowers strategically, and cost effectively, to transform a gathering into a very special event.

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Working From Home: It’s Complicated

Convene by PCMA

A recent study shows that some remote employees are dealing with anxiety as their co-workers have started returning to work in-person at their companies. It’s been called the “Great Remote Work Experiment” — as the pandemic forced nearly all workers who could do so to work from home, millions had the opportunity to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of remote work.

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How to Live Stream an Event: A Guide to Expanding the Reach of Your Conferences

Eventtia

By enabling brands and organisations to expand their reach and create intimate moments with their audiences, live streaming has quickly established itself as an event marketing essential.

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10 Kick-Ass Tricks to Generate Buzz before Your Event

Meeting Package

Delivering a new product can be terrifying and energizing. The entire motivation behind making a product is to sell. To advertise the item, it must be evident to your purchasers. The most significant test is to realize how to do it. You need to get consumers excited for it, and you know perhaps the ideal approaches to do that is to make use of some digital promotion.

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Routes World 2022 returns to Las Vegas

Travel Daily News

Having hosted the 2013 edition of the event, the LVCVA and McCarran International Airport will again welcome the global route development community to the city that has been named the No. 1 Trade Show Destination for 26 consecutive years.

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Singapore Airlines Partners with Golden Door for Wellness-focused Flights

Business Traveler USA

Airplane food, if you can find it, often gets the same raised eyebrows as hospital food, but when it comes to air fare, the consumer is usually grateful for whatever they see as such amenities are disappearing. Singapore Airlines , however, has never been a company to call airplane food … well, airplane food. On SQ (or SIA), which originated the “Book the Cook” concept for noteworthy onboard gourmet dining, airplane food is a canvas to which the best chefs of the world are invited to paint

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Evolution of the DMC:Renewing Business Relationships with Deeper Trust, Transparency & Understanding

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

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News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas

Convene by PCMA

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. 6 Causes of Burnout at Work. Jennifer Moss, author of the new book The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It , argues that employers need to stop blaming employees for not being resilient enough and, instead, change the policies and workplace cultures that breed burnout in the first place.

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The Langham Boston Spotlights a Classic

Business Traveler USA

A new American classic hotel, The Langham, Boston , reopened this month after a meticulous two-year renovation. The hotel is located in the heart of the city at 250 Franklin Street in the landmark former Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, offering ambient and contemporary accommodations to travelers who want to base themselves in the hub of Boston’s business and banking action.

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Visit Seattle’s Tom Norwalk Looks Back and Ahead

Convene by PCMA

Visit Seattle president and CEO Tom Norwalk said he is planning more travel with his family when he retires in 2022. “That power of travel and the looking forward to being together and the memories that are created — it’s the richest thing that I think we will want to continue to do,” he said. Earlier this month, Visit Seattle announced that its president and CEO, Tom Norwalk, will retire on March 31, 2022, after 15 years of service at the DMO.

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TSA Officers Found a Record Number of Firearms in 2021

Travel Pulse

The record was set with three months left in the year.

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People on the Move

Convene by PCMA

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where. Jonny Westom. Jonny Westom has joined Sonoma County Tourism as vice president, business development. He will oversee the business development team dedicated to advancing opportunities in the meetings, leisure, and event business sectors. Previously, Westom served as president of Visit Dana Point, where he oversaw the rebranding of the organization, implemented a group and meetings strategy that had a $6 million impact, and expanded th

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Keys to Successful Customer Segmentation: CMB Insights

ITA Group

Keys to Successful Customer Segmentation: CMB Insights. Smart companies use data to create customer segments. But choosing the best segmentation scheme can be tricky—it requires a bit of both art and science. Segmentation is about interpretation. It’s about tendencies. It delivers a framework—the keys to success. But you have to open the door. When there’s no one “right” answer, the best solution is most often a balance of statistical validity and real-world usability.

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