Tue.Nov 23, 2021

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Store Events: Retail Event Ideas, Tips, and Stories

Eventbrite

Brick-and-mortar retailers have a key advantage over point-and-click shopping: there’s an actual space to bring people together. As a retailer, having a physical store gives you access to customers who share an interest in your store’s products. This connection is just waiting to grow. Creating in-store events is a great way to both bring your […].

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Demystifying Covid Testing: The Differences, Access and What It All Means for Travelers

Smart Meetings

After years of travel-banned holidays, we know you’re headed far out to your favorite corners of cities, woods and bluffs. But even with travel restrictions loosened, testing requirements and Covid-related rules still can make travel tricky. Not having the right documents could cost you your long-anticipated trip. And getting a Covid test with a reasonable turnaround time and accurate result should not be laborious, especially at this point.

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6 Ideas for Creating Content to Keep People in their Seats

Stova

We all know the line about humans having a shorter attention span than goldfish. Pre-pandemic, that attention span was only 8 seconds—and it’s not a stretch to hypothesize that it’s diminished even further since 2020.

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Here’s Where Business Meetings and Travel Are Being Booked

Smart Meetings

Denver and Phoenix lead the way in the resurgence of business travel and meetings in the United States. That’s according to predictive data company Adara , which reports that both those Western cities are down only 29 percent for business trips booked in the last two months as compared to same period in 2019. Los Angeles and Atlanta are next in the Top 10, each down 35 percent as compared to 2019.

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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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Sustainability Innovations at IMEX America

Meet Green

Do you want to see sustainability in action? IMEX America has always taken the leadership position since the show’s inception in 2011 and this year was no different. Follow along as we show you what we saw at the event. Educational Tour. Educational tour of MGM Resort’s solar array. These solar panels helped power IMEX America with about 30% renewable energy during the event.

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FICP Adapted with Live Phoenix Event

Smart Meetings

Leadership with Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) wanted to set an example. For the group’s 2021 FICP Annual Conference in Arizona, they put a stake in the desert early on that they would hold an in-person event at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa for 500 fully vaccinated people Nov. 14-17. “Our hope is that once [attendees] attend this event, they’ll be able to go back to their leadership and incorporate many of the things we’ll be doing at our event thi

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A Complete Guide to Community Marketing in 2022

InEvent

Learn all about community marketing, including what it means today, its benefits and disadvantages, and the best strategies and examples for successful community engagement. Long gone are the days where marketers could rely on advertising campaigns to sustain their businesses. In the fierce competition and supersaturation of marketing messages, community engagement is emerging as a … Post A Complete Guide to Community Marketing in 2022 showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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Planning the Perfect Christmas Festival to Celebrate With Your Community

Eventbrite

Planning a Christmas festival is a great way to boost your brand, but since Christmas falls during an event-heavy time of the year, it’s important to make sure that your event stands out. Events during the winter holidays are the perfect way to take advantage of the festive spirit and create a memorable experience that attendees will […].

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The silver lining of event planning with Beth Hernandez: Event Horror Stories [Episode 2]

InEvent

EventLand’s brand new podcast series, Event Horror Stories, hosted by Marian Volkwyn, aims to be transparent and humanize the events industry by sharing real-life event stories. No-holds-barred – we want to share the good, the bad, and the ugly. In our second installment of EventLand’s podcast series, powered by InEvent, we invited Beth Hernandez, a … Post The silver lining of event planning with Beth Hernandez: Event Horror Stories [Episode 2] showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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Delta and LATAM Group Strengthen Codeshare

Business Traveler USA

Delta Air Lines and the LATAM Airlines Group plan to expand their existing codeshare arrangement. The airlines say the expansion will add more than 20 international routes between the United States and South America. It will also offer connections to a number of domestic and regional destinations from the carriers’ hubs in Atlanta, Santiago in Chile, Lima, Bogota, and São Paulo / Guarulhos in Brazil.

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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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A Complete Guide to Community Marketing in 2021

InEvent

Learn all about community marketing, including what it means today, its benefits and disadvantages, and the best strategies and examples for successful community engagement. Long gone are the days where marketers could rely on advertising campaigns to sustain their businesses. In the fierce competition and supersaturation of marketing messages, community engagement is emerging as a … Post A Complete Guide to Community Marketing in 2021 showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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American Airlines Plans Austin Airport’s Largest Lounge

Business Traveler USA

American Airlines is set to open a new Admirals Club lounge at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. At over 15,000 square feet, the lounge will be the largest at the airport with seating for more than 250 guests. The carrier says work on the lounge, which will be located near gate 14, is scheduled to start next year, and more information, including the scheduled opening date, will be shared in due course.

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The silver lining of event planning with Beth Hernandez: Event Horror Stories [Episode 2]

InEvent

EventLand’s brand new podcast series, Event Horror Stories, hosted by Marian Volkwyn, aims to be transparent and humanize the events industry by sharing real-life event stories. No-holds-barred – we want to share the good, the bad, and the ugly. In our second installment of EventLand’s podcast series, powered by InEvent, we invited Beth Hernandez, a … Post The silver lining of event planning with Beth Hernandez: Event Horror Stories [Episode 2] showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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What To Do When Corporate Culture Rewards Incompetence

Gavel International

Reading Time: 5 minutes Assume for a minute that one of your co-workers spends most of the workday sending texts, using the web for non-work-related efforts, or otherwise wasting time. However, they still have a positive, buddy-buddy relationship with the boss. The co-worker gets rewarded with a “good job” from the boss and gets the same perks despite investing minimal effort into the job.

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IMEX America Trade Shows – Everything you need to know

InEvent

IMEX America held its first exhibition in Las Vegas in 2011, but IMEX Frankfurt was introduced as a trade show in 2003. In 2021, the trade show had its 10th edition in Las Vegas. As the events industry halted due to the pandemic, IMEX brought event professionals together. Here’s everything you need to know about … Post IMEX America Trade Shows – Everything you need to know showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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Four Seasons Opens Elusa Winery Resort

Business Traveler USA

The new Four Seasons Resort and Residences has opened in the historic town of Calistoga, CA, set among the world-class vineyards of the Elusa Winery, making it the brand’s first property within a working winery. The Four Seasons Resort Napa Valley, which had originally been scheduled to open last year, offers 85 rooms and suites surrounded by plenty of open-air spaces with panoramic mountain and vineyard views.

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Triumph Group International presents its first Sustainability Report

Travel Daily News

TGI’s debut in the field of impact reporting, analysing, identifying and setting targets for continuous improvement.

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Giving Thanks

National Association For Catering ane Events

As we approach Thanksgiving Day and our national moment of shared reflection, and as my year as your NACE National President approaches its conclusion, I would like to share what I am thankful for in 2021. First, I am thankful to the members and supporters who make NACE the essential resource and vibrant community that it is. Unlike other associations where you pay a fee and become a number in a database, NACE is a closely-knit community unlike any other association I have been part of.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

The Abbi Agency

During this time of year, we reflect on all that we are grateful for: from our fantastic clients, to our wicked-smart team who makes all the magic happen, and most of all, those “No edits!” emails at 4:30 p.m. on a Friday. But in all seriousness, this Thanksgiving, we are reminded that it’s a combination of the big and small moments that makes us grateful to wake up each day to do what we love.

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Diane Conley posted an update: Event F&B: Sense of Place, on a [?]

I-Meet

Event F&B: Sense of Place, on a Plate… [link].

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A ‘Watershed Moment’ for Events — and the World

Convene by PCMA

COP26 had more than 40,000 registered participants, including 22,274 party delegates, 14,124 observers, and 3,886 media. (Dean Calma/IAEA). It’s hard to think of a conference with higher stakes than COP26, which took place Oct. 31–Nov. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 is shorthand for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, a summit which brought leaders from more than 130 nations together to negotiate a global plan to address climate change.

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7 Tips for Sustainable Events in Post-COVID-19 Group Travel

ITA Group

7 Tips for Sustainable Events in Post-COVID-19 Group Travel. Before the current pandemic, popular destinations globally had been struggling with over-tourism. Due in no small part to the massive numbers of travelers, local destinations were struggling to keep up with the explosive growth. From depleting local resources to creating pollution and waste problems, there are plenty of reasons the travel industry has been identified as a major obstacle to mitigating the effects of climate change.

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Authors Urge Humanity to Remain Hopeful

Convene by PCMA

“Each one of us has a critical role to play,” writes Katharine Mayhoe in her book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Editor’s note: Renowned anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall has said of the climate crisis, “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

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UN Conference Director Wanted to ‘Make the Impossible Happen’

Convene by PCMA

Laura Lopez (2nd from left), is director of conference affairs for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body which guides the climate change treaty and oversees the annual climate change conference. Editor’s note: Renowned anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall has said of the climate crisis, “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

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Climate Conferences on the Agenda

Convene by PCMA

Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, a clean air advocate in London, speaks as part of TED’s The Countdown Summit. Her daughter, Ella Roberta, died in 2013 at nine years of age after a severe asthma attack. A 2020 inquest concluded that pollution from the South Circular Road in London was a contributing factor to the child’s death. Editor’s note: Renowned anthropologist Dr.