Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2024

The most expensive hotel renovation ever seen marks the venue’s 25th anniversary The Venetian Resort Las Vegas is celebrating a $1.5 billion reinvestment project, said to be the most expensive redo in hospitality history, including a grand slew of property-wide renovations, new programming and fresh culinary additions. Alongside it all, the resort will celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary with special programming throughout the weekend of May 3-5.

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Motivation Excellence

APRIL 30, 2024

Meet Lindsey Jarson, our Get to Know ME spotlight this month! Lindsey joined us in 2023. She’s holding down the accounting fort at our Traverse City location, but her role extends to any supplier that needs to be paid. She’s camera-shy, so no video with her, but you can quickly read below about what brings her joy and satisfaction. Thanks, Lindsey, for sharing with us!

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

MAY 2, 2024

Our next team spotlight features account executive Andrew Held. While new to the industry, Andrew is no stranger to the world of Travel and Tourism. A lifelong adventurer, Andrew is proud to have explored every state east of the Mississippi, most of Western Europe, and a good chunk of the Caribbean and Central America. He even boasts of having lived in Bermuda for 4 years!

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Traveler's Q

MAY 3, 2024

Outline The top three performing articles about Green Venues in Denver and Austin are: 4 Eco-Conscious Convention Centers for Your Next Green Meeting – This article highlights four eco-conscious convention centers, including the Austin Convention Center and Colorado Convention Center, which are leaders in sustainability initiatives and have impressive green credentials.

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

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 29, 2024

Long Beach is a big city on the Southern California coast with a friendly small-town feel, and its convention center is located at the heart of the downtown waterfront. Arts and culture are woven into the center’s gathering spaces, which are designed to promote socializing and make events feel like parties. Long Beach, California is an events destination worth discovering.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 6, 2024

By the time Churchill Downs Bugler Steve Butteman sounded the “call to post,” a number of notable performances had already taken place. The University of Louisville marching band played “My Old Kentucky Home,” Kentucky native Wynonna Jud performed the National Anthem and lifestyle influencer and restauranteur Martha Stewart called “Riders Up” from the red carpet. 157,000 people had experienced Louisville hospitality in-person and 16.7 million tuned in for the “most exciting two minutes in sports

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 30, 2024

The post “Con Ojos de Mujer”: A new Suncruise forum in Cadiz highlights women’s vision for blue tourism appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. The annual event “With Women’s Eyes. The Vision of Blue Tourism” held a new edition, in this case in the city of Cadiz, where leading professionals in the tourism and port sector met to discuss the relevance of women in these areas of great economic and social importance.

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Bizzaboo

MAY 6, 2024

Event sponsorship is essential for event success and sustainability, providing necessary financial support, resources, and visibility. Sponsors contribute funds and services for promotional opportunities, such as branding and speaking engagements, but they also bring expertise, industry connections, and credibility, helping to draw larger audiences and enhance event experiences.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 6, 2024

Respondents to last year’s Salary Survey shared what they loved most about their jobs — recurring responses included no two days are ever the same, the work is challenging, the perks of travel, and the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues. What did they like least? The lack of consistency, constant issues to overcome, being on the road too much, and too many people, as one respondent said, “with their hands in the pot.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

Not only is Barbara Connell, CAE, CMP Fellow , the longest-tenured CMP to date; the president and CEO of Solutions by Connell is also first to have been designated as a CMP Fellow, as part of its inaugural class in 2022. With these impressive achievements, Connell has rich insight to share regarding the CMP and what it means to the industry. To her, event management is “a far-reaching, integrated field.

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

Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2024

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. It’s informal because I only list events I hear about, a minuscule fraction of the unconferences people hold every day. Even so, the calendar lists hundreds of events. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month. For example, as I write this the May 2024 listing includes events in Vienna, Austria; Raleigh, North Carolina; and two in Nepal.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 4, 2024

The post Arabian Travel Market 2024 returns on 6 May with 41,000 + expected appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. The organisers of Arabian Travel Market 2024 (ATM) and representatives from the exhibition’s strategic partners, which include the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET), Emirates, IHG Hotels & Resorts, and Al Rais Travel, have outlined their plans for the event, which takes place from Monday, May 6, to Thursday, May 9, 2024 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (

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InEvent

MAY 6, 2024

Modern technology is changing the game for event organizers. From the accessibility of live-streaming technology to the power of AI, the event experience is improving for both hosts and guests. In this article, we’ll discuss how to use AI for event promotion. We’ll start by covering how this technology is improving the events industry before … Post From Data to Engagement: Get to Know the Power of AI in Event Promotion showed as first in InEvent.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 6, 2024

Long waits at registration, undelivered items to booths, safety and security lapses, and other mishaps were partly the result of one event's over-reliance on free help. After one year as a meet-and-greet event with dozens of authors and several hundred attendees, the Readers Take Denver event morphed into a full-fledged convention across four days in April 2024.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

Todd Reichelt Todd Reichelt, JW Marriott St. Maarten Beach Resort & Spa Reichelt takes on the role of general manager at JW Marriott St. Maarten Beach Resort & Spa , Marriott’s first-ever international luxury hotel in Sint Maarten. He will oversee all operations and business strategy at the resort. He brings 52 years of experience, beginning in the hospitality industry as a dishwasher and moving through the roles of executive chef, food and beverage manager and finally general manager, a

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Bizzaboo

MAY 6, 2024

Bizzabo has received 19 G2 Leader Awards for Spring 2024. This recognition comes directly from Bizzabo’s customers and their independent reviews shared on G2, underscoring Bizzabo’s relentless pursuit of excellence and innovation in event management. Building on Bizzabo’s Leader recognition in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Event Technology Platforms , as well as The Forrester Wave™: B2B Event Management Technology, Q1 2023 report , Bizzabo has further solidified its position as a l

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 2, 2024

The post Dusit Hotels and Resorts to showcase exciting line-up at ATM 2024 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Dusit Hotels and Resorts, the hotel arm of Dusit International, will showcase an impressive array of new destinations, an innovative sustainability initiative, the much-anticipated September reopening of its iconic flagship Dusit Thani Bangkok hotel, and its first hotel in Saudi Arabia – Dusit Princess Al Majma’ah, Riyadh – at the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2024,

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 6, 2024

Meet Boston, the city’s destination marketing organization, launched a workforce development initiative to address labor shortages in tourism and hospitality, but also to help Boston’s hospitality workforce better reflect the people who live there. (Kyle Klein photo) Two of three jobs that were lost during the pandemic were in the hospitality industry, making it the sector of the U.S. economy hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to U.S.

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Gavel International

MAY 6, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes If your company has an onsite or remote working structure, it is very important to hold offsite meetings for employees throughout the year. These meetings serve a different purpose from their daily or weekly counterparts. Onsite internal meetings typically involve discussing projects or creating strategies. The focus is on the work at hand.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2024

In this episode of Meeting of the Minds, Smart Meetings sits down with Janette Roush, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Digital for New York City Tourism & Conventions, and Sindhu Srivastava, CEO of We Crush Events and MeaningfulData, to explore the potential of AI in the events industry. From predictive models to large language models, they discuss how AI can revolutionize event planning, offer practical advice for planners looking to integrate AI into their workflow, and address im

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EHL Insights

MAY 1, 2024

In the final article in this three-part series exploring luxury hotels and a sense of place, Suzanne Godfrey, consultant and lecturer in luxury and luxury hospitality, examines how hoteliers can overcome the challenges in providing local and authentic meaning of sense of place.

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 30, 2024

The post Global Travel Collection announces 2024 Elevate Connections in three cities appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Global Travel Collection’s annual conference returns in 2024, newly reimagined as a series of one-day events called Elevate Connections, set to take place in three key destinations: London, New York City and Los Angeles.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 29, 2024

At a 2012 Ted Talk, Charlie Todd and Improv Everywhere planted a fake speaker whose PowerPoint presentation seemingly failed, with the multicolored “spinning ball of death” on screen instead of slides. IE actors among the audience stood and spun colorful umbrellas and tossed beach balls while dancers jumped on stage around the speaker, who still struggled with his tech while trying to present.

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InEvent

MAY 3, 2024

Tech conferences have become a staple today, offering vast networking opportunities, learning from industry experts, and staying abreast of the latest trends. There’s a very high chance you’d have heard about at least one of these events.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2024

When meeting in one of the culturally richest cities in the world, it only makes sense to embrace the depth of sensory touchstones to create a three-day journey everyone will remember. During the Smart Meetings Immersive Experience, the team worked with New Orleans partners to highlight the tastes, music, color, history and pomp that make the Mardi Gras capital unique.

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Global DMC partners

MAY 3, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of event planning, sustainability is not just a trend but a necessity. On April 25th, we hosted our "Sustainable Event Planning & Ideas from Around the World" webinar, aimed at equipping event professionals with the knowledge and tools to implement sustainable.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 2, 2024

The post DidaTravel announces strong sales growth across GCC markets and destinations ahead of ATM appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. DidaTravel – a tech-driven global travel wholesaler – today announced, strong year-to-date sales growth from across GCC source markets and destinations ahead of the ATM show. For DidaTravel, the leading B2B travel wholesaler in China and APAC, the GCC region has been of increasing strategic focus over the past few years and the year-to-date growth

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 3, 2024

In addition to spotlighting local thought leaders and experts, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre team makes it a point to support local purveyors and producers with its F&B decisions — 100 percent of the wine and beer offered at the center is sourced locally. “Diversity, Our Strength” — that’s the motto of the city of Toronto, and it does more than inspire the city’s nearly 3 million residents: It’s a big reason why massive events like the tech-focused Collision Conference — which attracte

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inVOYAGE

MAY 3, 2024

“The last continent. It’s out there, waiting for you. Experience the adventure of a lifetime in the least visited place on earth.” Discover the luxury cruising solution to Antarctica travel with Silversea and experience the closest thing on earth to another planet. We catch up with the team behind the scenes to see just what goes into the planning of an Antarctic incentive… Fly straight into the heart of Antarctica in just 2 hours with Antarctica Bridge or sail the iconic Drake Passage for an un

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Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2024

Planning a memorable event involves meticulous attention to detail, and selecting the right venue is the most important first step. When it comes to hosting successful events, Hilton All-Inclusive stands out as a premier choice. With unparalleled locations and amenities, outstanding perks for event planners and a focus on sustainability through Meet with Purpose, Hilton’s All-Inclusive resorts offer comprehensive packages catering to every event planner’s needs.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MAY 2, 2024

In travel planning, the choice between a traditional travel agency and an incentive travel company will significantly impact the success of your group trip. While travel agencies cater to the logistics of individual travelers and smaller groups, incentive travel companies specialize in crafting tailor-made experiences for larger groups, particularly for corporate incentives.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 5, 2024

The post Aroya Cruises to give exclusive first insight into pioneering ship design and experiences at Arabian Travel Market appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. From 6 th May, AROYA Cruises, Cruise Saudi’s first Cruise Line, will join travel trade leaders, pioneers, and professionals from across the globe as they meet in Dubai for the annual four-day event.

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EHL Insights

MAY 2, 2024

In less than two decades, short-term rentals have thoroughly transformed the hospitality industry, wresting 15% market share from hotels. From a feel-good pioneer of the sharing economy to a $100bn behemoth, Airbed and Breakfast, better known as Airbnb , has revolutionized hospitality from its beginnings in 2007 — creating a whole new market in the process.

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inVOYAGE

MAY 3, 2024

From vibrant coral reefs teeming with marine life to mysterious shipwrecks hiding tales of the past, the underwater world offers a wealth of mesmerizing experiences, perfect for memorable incentive trips and rewarding top-performing employees. Whether you're a seasoned diver or simply curious about what lies beneath the surface, here are some of the top underwater experiences from around the world that promise to captivate and inspire … Anguilla: The Wrecks of Dog Island Dive beneath the azure w

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MPI

MAY 2, 2024

Tim Altbaum, CEO of Vario, discusses his experience with and interest in artificial intelligence (AI), how he envisions it changing our world and more in advance of his May 21 WEC session, “AI Tools to Transform Your Business” (sponsored by Marriott).

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