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How to Honor Native American Tribes on the Fourth

Smart Meetings

When most Americans think of the Fourth of July, they fantasize about family barbecues, community fireworks and local parades. It’s a time to enjoy the summer weather and celebrate veterans for their service. However, for millions of Native Americans alive today, the day carries a reminder of how their ancestors were gravely mistreated by European colonizers.

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How to Measure the Success of Your MICE Event

Traveler's Q

After you have held your MICE event, how do you know how successful it was? During the event, you can view your attendees and get the vibe from them at the time. But to determine if your event production was successful, you need to dig a little deeper. Therefore, you must analyze your business event performance. In this article, we will explain how you measure the success of your MICE event.

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TWT: Airlines Get ‘Berned,’ Biz Travel Stats Spike

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. Bernie Sanders Demands Airline Accountability, Airlines Blame FAA. As the news fills with stories of canceled and delayed flights, the airline industry lobbying group Airlines for America (A4A) President and CEO Nicholas Calio wrote to Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on June 24 to complain that “not every air traffic variable is withi

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Episode 50: Come, Create, Share: The Touchstones of Event Experience with David Title at Bravo Media

Techsytalk

We’re tapping into the creative mind of David Title, Partner at Bravo Media, about event experience in 2022 (and not […].

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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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What meeting planners who support women’s rights can do

Conferences that Work

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. 58% of U.S. women of reproductive age live in states hostile to abortion rights. Meanwhile, six out of 10 Americans — 61 percent — say they support abortion rights. What can meeting planners who support women’s rights do? Here are two concrete suggestions for action: Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post What meeting planners who support women’s rights can do appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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How to Create an Immersive Attraction Experience with Local Artists

Eventbrite

An immersive experience engages visitors in new and creative ways. Rather than simply offering an art installation, an immersive art experience taps into the senses and evokes emotions while exhibiting works that educate and inform. Attendees step into large spaces that showcase art with light and sound accompaniment and interactive features, allowing them to view […].

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How to Create an Immersive Attraction Experience With Local Artists

Eventbrite

An immersive experience engages visitors in new and creative ways. Rather than simply offering an art installation, an immersive art experience taps into the senses and evokes emotions while exhibiting works that educate and inform. Attendees step into large spaces that showcase art with light and sound accompaniment and interactive features, allowing them to view […].

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Hot Tech Conference Collision Defies Odds, Draws 35,000 to Toronto

Skift Meetings

More than 35,000 attendees from 130 countries involved in the global tech ecosystem gathered in Toronto at the Enercare Centre for Collision , a Web Summit event. This year’s ticket count is a significant jump from the 25,711 who attended the last in-person Collision, also in Toronto, in 2019. These numbers buck the trend across the industry for deflated in-person event numbers post-pandemic.

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8 Sales Incentive Program Ideas That Work

ITA Group

8 Sales Incentive Program Ideas That Work. SPIFs, spurts and promotions are great ways to drive sales activity. In fact, about 90% of top-performing organizations use incentive programs to reward their sales associates. However, in the increasingly competitive channel market, smart companies influence desired behaviors earlier in the channel partner relationship to achieve better participation, higher engagement and more profitable partnerships.

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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. What Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Mean for Career Decisions. Last Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States upended a half-century of federal protections for U.S. women, voting to overturn the landmark 1973 case Roe v.

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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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June 2022 NewsNet

FICP

We Want to Know. How often do you prefer email reminders about upcoming FICP opportunities? Share your preference with us by completing the poll on the homepage of The Network.

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CMAC partners with Trees4Travel to support carbon neutral future

Travel Daily News

CMAC customers can now also benefit from the partnership, with the firm able to facilitate tree growing projects on their behalf, neutralising emissions based on the journeys their travellers take through their managed ground transport solutions.

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June 2022 NewsNet

FICP

We Want to Know. How often do you prefer email reminders about upcoming FICP opportunities? Share your preference with us by completing the poll on the homepage of The Network.

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FCM boosts platform capabilities through launch of proprietary online booking tool in the UK

Travel Daily News

With FCM Platform’s open-platform solution, clients can choose from recommended APIs to deliver desired feature and functionality requirements on a market-by-market basis – like HR feeds, duty of care providers and booking tool selection – this will soon include FCM’s own proprietary option.

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June 2022 NewsNet

FICP

We Want to Know. How often do you prefer email reminders about upcoming FICP opportunities? Share your preference with us by completing the poll on the homepage of The Network.

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CTM introduces new sustainability functionality to award-winning Lightning OBT and mobile app

Travel Daily News

Carbon Transfers has been added to Lightning, which won the Business Travel Awards Europe Best Online Booking Tool accolade in September 2021 and has been shortlisted for this year’s award again.

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Time to Fine-Tune Your Values Proposition

Convene by PCMA

In the future its more likely that audiences will look to an organization’s stance on issues — LGTBQ+ rights for example — before deciding whether to attend an event. (Photo by Raphael Renter on Unsplash ). Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes. Think about how much time we spent as in industry, in the height of the pandemic, working to make in-person events safer as a way of compelling audiences to come back to them.

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Seatrade Cruise Med announces 2022 programming aimed to “Steer Change Together”

Travel Daily News

Hosted in the world’s second largest cruise destination, the programme features two keynote opening sessions, followed by a robust schedule of panels tailored to Mediterranean cruising.

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Six Reasons Why Toronto Stands Out

Convene by PCMA

Home to more than a quarter of Canada’s largest business headquarters plus a thriving start-up culture, Toronto is building global influence across multiple sectors including life science, technology, and finance. (Courtesy of Destination Toronto). Like many cities of a similar size, Toronto has a modern infrastructure and a vibrant, walkable downtown.

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Top Four Reasons to Include Individual Travel Rewards in your Incentive Strategy

Creative Group Inc

2022 is A Whole New World. If Aladdin and Princess Jasmine had left the palace within the last few years, they might have asked for the first available flight right back home. But while it hasn’t all been objectively bad, the pandemic years did change the way we live our lives; what we value, how we work, how we vacation, how we spend our hard-earned dollars.

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10 Most Affordable Birmingham Suburbs to Live In

Redfin

Whether you want to call it by its nickname, “The Magic City,” or just by its name, Birmingham, AL , is often considered a great destination to relocate to in the South. From soul food, one-of-a-kind white BBQ sauce, and banana pudding, to its easy access to all Alabama has to offer, it shouldn’t come as a surprise nearly 210,000 people call Birmingham home.

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Who's News for June 30, 2022

Special Events

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Colleen Bisconti Reinvents IBM’s Think Conference

Convene by PCMA

Colleen Bisconti, vice president of global conferences and events at IBM, is the incoming chair of the Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA), a wholly owned division of PCMA. For 20 years, Colleen Bisconti has had a hand in shaping IBM’s event strategy. Currently vice president of global conferences and events, Bisconti will soon add another role to her impressive resume — she is the incoming chair of the Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA), a wholly owned division of PCMA.

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New Research: Looking Beyond Bookings to a Sustainable Events Industry

DCI

The newest report from International Association of Conference Centres (IACC) is out, and the results are showing that there is much hope for recovery across the events industry. A closer look, however, reveals a few considerations that destinations and their venues should have on their radars as we move away from the pandemic and into a more safeguarded and sustainable events industry.

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A Sea Change for Event Sustainability

Convene by PCMA

Monterey Bay Aquarium shares a customized sustainability report with clients who have events at the venue. Individual reports are based on the exact number of people in attendance. John Abrahamson has worked for five years as vice president of sales for Monterey Bay Aquarium, where integrating sustainability into corporate and educational programs is part of his job.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sustainability Efforts Cause Ripple Effect

Convene by PCMA

Monterey Bay Aquarium’s plastic-free efforts led to some of their toy vendors changing their product design. One company replaced the plastic eyeballs on plush animals like penguins with sewn-in eyes. The campaign to eliminate single-use plastic from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which hosts corporate and group events, began with a conversation in its gift shop in 2016.