Fri.Dec 16, 2022

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TWT: Hotel Aquarium Explodes, Travel Risk Assessment

Smart Meetings

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. Massive Hotel Aquarium Explodes at Meetings Hotel. The BBC reports that a massive hotel lobby aquarium has exploded in a Berlin Radisson Blu hotel. The lobby design feature was called the “Aqua Dom” and was claimed to be the largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium in the world.

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New Privacy Regulations for Event Data Coming in 2023

MeetingsNet

If the way you handle attendees’ information doesn’t meet the EU’s GDPR standards, it may not meet some U.S. state’s standards being enacted in 2023. It’s been about five years since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, went into effect, putting strict rules in place for collecting, storing, and processing data on EU citizens.

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5 Tips for Improving Accessibility for Meetings

Smart Meetings

When Keely Cat-Wells, founder and president of C-Talent , arrived to speak at an event about the importance of diversity and accessibility with her colleague, who was in a wheelchair, the two were met with a startling realization: the room that was booked for the event was entirely inaccessible. The event space was up three flights of stairs and had no available elevator.

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Designing Events That Build Communities

Convene by PCMA

In her Stanford d.school guide and book, Susie Wise offers a framework for belonging that rests on nine parts of a journey or community experience — from the first touchpoint, the invitation to join or participate, to an intentionally designed ending. (© 2022 by Rose Jaffe). Designer Susie Wise has taught for 15 years at the design school at Stanford University, where, among other things, she founded a lab that explores how design thinking can be applied to education.

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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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Smart Moves: Food and Beverage

Smart Meetings

Gilbert Bolivar. Bolivar is director of food and beverage for Innisbrook, A Salamander Resort in Tampa Bay, Florida, where he will oversee the property’s five F&B options, as well as its banquet operations. Before joining Innisbrook, Bolivar was vice president of food and beverage operations in the senior living industry, where he led 19 properties in Virginia and Florida.

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Designing Events That Create a Sense of Belonging

Convene by PCMA

The pandemic exacerbated our need for feeling connected with one another. And now that in-person events have resumed, organizers can reignite among participants the sense that a common purpose bonds them together. But that doesn’t always happen organically. For the December CMP Series and cover story, Convene editors asked experts across different fields how to intentionally design events that create a genuine sense of belonging.

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Networking 101: Be a Croissant, Not a Bagel

Convene by PCMA

How you — and others — stand at an event can determine how successfully you network. In his book Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences , networking expert Robbie Samuels points out that open body language is the key to meeting new people and inviting people who may feel on the outside to feel more welcome.

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Catching up with Mike Williams, Senior Partner, Senior Consultant, Gaining Edge and AIMEbassador 2023.

Travel Daily Media

The post Catching up with Mike Williams, Senior Partner, Senior Consultant, Gaining Edge and AIMEbassador 2023. appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. AIME 2023 (13 -15 February) will host 400 buyers and 2,000 visitor buyers from around the world, spanning industry sectors. AIME visitors will expand their knowledge, connect with the business events community, find inspiration on the show floor and most importantly do business.

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7 Event Tech Trends to Try in 2023

Convene by PCMA

VR headsets can bring on-site and digital attendees together like everyone’s in the same room. For our 2023 Events Industry Forecast, Convene editors checked in with webex Events , formerly SOCIO, who identified some event tech that will “truly level up your events.” Read our full Events Industry Forecas t in the Convene digital edition for November.

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Top 7 Event Marketing Ideas & Strategies

InEvent

An event can’t sell itself, no matter how much you’ve prepared for it. Without a solid event marketing strategy, chances are your event will be drab or have a poor turnout. Effective event marketing focuses on using different techniques across different marketing channels to promote your event to your target audience. It successfully drives business … Post Top 7 Event Marketing Ideas & Strategies showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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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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Will Pent-up Demand for Events Continue in the Long Run?

Convene by PCMA

For our 2023 Events Industry Forecast , Convene reached out to Cathy Breden, CMP-F, CAE, CEM, CEO, Center for Exhibition Industry Research , to get her take on what the exhibitions industry can expect in 2023. Here’s what she had to say: Cathy Breden. “The U.S. B2B exhibitions industry is sensitive to what is going on in the economy. The good news is that in Q2 of this year [2022], attendance was down by 22 percent over 2019 levels.

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Want Better Event ROI? Help Attendees with Content Retention

MeetingsNet

A new report outlines several ways planners can package content before, during, and after a meeting to ensure that the learning sticks. According to a December white paper from event-production firm Encore, even if attendees test extremely well for content absorption while at a meeting, more than half of their learning is lost two days after the conference, and as much as 90 percent is lost after just one week.

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Top 6 Event Planning Certifications To Boost Your Career

Eventtia

Event planning is a lucrative and evergreen career choice. The global event management market is estimated to be worth $6.36 billion and is projected to grow at a rate of 12.5% between 2021 and 2028, according to Grand View Research. With the rapid growth in the event industry, now is the time to get certified and propel your career. There are many great programs out there that can help you learn the ropes and advance your career in this exciting industry.

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Submissions Open: Top 25 DMCs for 2023

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9 LGBTQ Content Creators to Pitch in the U.S.

DCI

With travelers constantly looking to social media for inspiration, it’s no time to second guess the value of content creators – particularly when it comes to LGBTQ travelers. While many destinations are becoming more and more progressive, others are still murky for this niche group of visitors. Influential content creators on Instagram, YouTube, and TIkTok are powerful allies for any destination that wants to make sure it’s viewed as favorably as possible by LGBTQ travelers. .

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Event Invitation Emails: a Deep Dive

Social Tables

Email plays an important role in the success of any event. Whether it’s a casual happy hour or a hybrid seminar, event organizers can use their event invitation email to sell out their gathering. But how do you write an event invitation email that converts? Whether you’re working on your first campaign or your fiftieth, we’ve got some expert advice and ideas to spark your imagination.

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