Fri.Oct 15, 2021

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Working Around the Disadvantages of Masks at Meetings

MeetingsNet

Communication quality can be diminished along with trust in the messages being delivered. But there are ways to remedy the downsides to speaking through a mask. The good news is that more meetings and events are happening now than at any time in the past 19 months, thanks to waning Covid infection rates and a combination of safety precautions that often includes requiring participants to wear masks while indoors.

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How Essence Prioritized Both the Digital and In-Person Experience at the Essence Festival

Convene by PCMA

The 2021 Essence Festival took place over two consecutive weekends online and in person in New Orleans. (Photos courtesy Essence). For several decades, Essence magazine has hosted the Essence Festival, a two-weekend-long event held in New Orleans, filled with panels, concerts, performances, movie screenings, and shopping. When the Essence Festival was forced by the pandemic to be held virtually in 2020, it attracted 45 million views over the course of six days.

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Museum of Failure: Pop-Up with a Dose of Schadenfreude

Business Traveler USA

Sometimes what looks like failure is just another step to success … or maybe not. To that end, SEE Global Entertainment announced the 2021/2022 Museum of Failure North American Tour opening up as a pop-up museu m at the Mall of America in Minneapolis starting on November 12, 2021 and running to January 9, 2022. Due to its lack of failure with audiences in France, China, Sweden and the US (Los Angeles), Museum of Failure is kicking off its focused US tour in Minneapolis and plans for tour stops t

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Can Rethinking Events Future-Proof Your Organization?

Meet Green

The world has shifted dramatically in the past two years. How we work, do business, market, shop, gather, share information, and live day-to-day has undergone a transformation none of us could have expected. Let me be clear, there is no return to “normal,” and it is time to future-proof both your personal and business worlds. The event and hospitality industries were impacted to a higher degree than many others.

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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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Is Paid or Organic Social Better for My Destination?

DCI

Since the advent of paid social media, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) have wondered if investing in organic social or paid social generates better returns, especially on a tight budget. While a decade ago building a large organic follower base by churning out ‘snackable’ content was the recommendation for most destination brands with limited funds, the social landscape today is much more complicated. .

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PortAventura Business & Events centralises the operations of the RallyRACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada for the 16th consecutive year

Travel Daily News

In line with PortAventura World’s strategic priorities, the 2021 event steps up safety measures against COVID-19 and makes a strong commitment to reducing the environmental impact of the World Rally Championshi.

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Convening Leaders 2022 Speaker Mateo Salvatto: ‘Imagine What Any of Us Can Do’

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Mateo Salvatto will speak at Convening Leaders 2022. Among other accomplishments, Salvatto created an app for the deaf that translates speech to text and vice versa in real time. (Courtesy Asteroid Technologies). Mateo Salvatto is the founder and CEO of Asteroid Technologies, a tech startup with a client roster that includes banks, real-estate companies, and governments, and is head of innovation for ORT Technical Schools in Buenos Aires, where not long ago — he’s 22 — he was enrolled as a stude

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Demystifying Engagement: How to connect with your audience

InEvent

360° Key Takeaways from Liz King Caruso – Events specialist and consultant at Liz King Events Liz King Caruso started her business on Twitter, but after connecting with like-minded individuals via social media, her Twitter account blossomed into a fully-fledged events business. Liz has experience in virtual and hybrid events for about ten years. Her … Post Demystifying Engagement: How to connect with your audience showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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United Creates Shortcuts for Using Bonus Miles and Credits

Business Traveler USA

United is giving customers some very needed flexibility that will come in handy when they need to rebook their travel. The concept is simple: United is helping customers find and use their travel credits with a few easy moves. United is the only airline to make it this easy for customers to use their credits as the numbers are now automatically displayed as a payment option during the checkout process.

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Travel Club to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with inaugural summit

Travel Daily News

Multi-day gathering in Miami offers networking, inspiration and visibility for Latinx Entrepreneurs.

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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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Pittsburgh International Airport Building $1.4 Billion Tech-Forward Terminal

Business Traveler USA

Pittsburgh has its sights set on the future, beginning the colossal futuristic airport terminal at PIT. The 700,000 square-foot terminal project marks Pittsburgh International Airport as the first terminal in the country to be built from the ground up in a post-pandemic world. Engineered with a focus on public health and technology, the new facility will incorporate state-of-the art clean air structures, more space for social distancing and 90,000 square feet of outdoor terrace space –both pre-

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