Endless Events
AUGUST 24, 2021
Before the pandemic hit us, we took genuine human interactions at events for granted. Attendees mingled, networked, formed everlasting bonds, and had a great time while doing all of that. As the industry pivoted to virtual events, virtual audience engagement became one of the most talked-about challenges. How do we replicate genuine interpersonal dynamics in the virtual world?
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 9, 2021
Destinations International (DI) and Temple University’s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM) have partnered to help DI members further their educations and careers. DI members, consisting of approximately 600 organizations and nearly 6,000 meeting professionals, admitted into Temple’s Master of Science in Travel and Tourism program will be guaranteed a $4,000 scholarship toward their tuition.
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Advanced Travel and Tourism
AUGUST 19, 2021
For this spotlight post we are highlighting Laura Beth Strickland, Executive Director of Visit Vicksburg. Born and raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Laura Beth has gained 12 years of experience in the travel & tourism space and has worked through various roles leading up to her Executive Director position. Prior to joining Visit Vicksburg, Laura Beth worked at a golf course, was a substitute teacher, and did freelance work for the Chamber of Commerce.
Techsytalk
AUGUST 29, 2021
I am excited to learn more about the risk management and legal issues event professionals face as we return to the world of in-person events…
TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave
Best Corporate Events
AUGUST 12, 2021
The past 16 months have been both challenging and rewarding for our company. The pandemic posed a lot of new and unique challenges to businesses everywhere, and the events industry especially. So, Best Corporate Events had to come up with new and unique solutions to address those challenges, custom tailoring our efforts to the situation at hand. For many years we have been able to offer our experience in customizing and delivering great programs to our corporate clients and DMC partners.
Conferences that Work
AUGUST 9, 2021
Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meeting design. Seth Godin makes an analogous point in this post…. Good writing is cheaper than special effects. “In movies, that’s obvious. It costs far less to make The Big Lebowski than a Marvel movie. But the metaphor applies to just about any sort of creative project. We often err on the side of ‘special effects’.
MICE Travel Today brings together the best content for MICE professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 27, 2021
The most recent tool being embraced by meeting professionals looking to safely bring groups back together while protecting sensitive data is third-party health verification. Companies such as InHouse Physicians and Clear Health Pass are offering pre-event vaccine verification and wellness tests along with on-site temperature monitoring and screening.
Advanced Travel and Tourism
AUGUST 12, 2021
As more people are getting vaccinated, the travel industry has seen a huge increase. Since the pandemic h as been incredibly hard on the tourism industry, regional destinations are undoubtedly relieved about the uptick in visitors. Tourism companies who are still at max capacity might be so busy that they aren’t even thinking about marketing. After all, business is booked, so why focus on more?
Convene by PCMA
AUGUST 30, 2021
A hybrid meeting takes place at Marina Bay Sands’ Hybrid Broadcast Studio in Singapore. The overall number of COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard respondents who said they were planning to hold simultaneous events for digital and in-person audiences dropped over the last six months. (Courtesy Marina Bay Sands). Let’s call it a micro-trend: In the six months since Convene began collecting data about how planners are designing hybrid events, there has been a slow-but-steady decrease in the number of
Travel Pulse
AUGUST 19, 2021
The Bahamian government today issued an emergency order to prevent cruise ships from porting if they carry vaccine-eligible passengers who aren’t fully COVID-19 vaccinated.
The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.
EHL Insights
AUGUST 16, 2021
The trend of “Slow Travel” has become increasingly popular over recent years, however through COVID19 it has accelerated immensely and has almost become a new norm without people even realising. Slow tourism is forecasted to continue to grow in popularity, becoming an alternative to more traditional holidays and is estimat ed to grow at a 10% compound annual growth rate.
Endless Events
AUGUST 19, 2021
On March 11th, 2020, the events industry changed forever. Yes, you read that right: the industry didn’t just change during the last year, and it won’t bounce back after we let some time pass. The impact is forever. We’re not just talking about the virtual revolution here – the COVID-19 epidemic re-defined what it means to plan a safe event.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 17, 2021
Editor’s Note: Meeting professionals are still pivoting on the regular and can learn a lot from the experiences of their peers. We asked Mandi Graziano, vice president of global accounts for HPN Global and published author, to share a behind-the-scenes look at a recent event she planned that make a quick change. Three and a half months prior to my client’s largest annual trade show, we were notified that the San Diego Convention Center would be unable to host the program due to it being us
Advanced Travel and Tourism
AUGUST 3, 2021
Targeting is a vital part of content marketing and ad creation. You must know the population you’re speaking to, what they need, and how you can solve their problems. And, most importantly, you need to get their attention enough to make your destination seem appealing. . However, limited resources can make it difficult to reach as many people as you’d like.
Business Traveler USA
AUGUST 11, 2021
The Federal Aviation Administration is urging local law enforcement to file charges more often against unruly airline passengers. In a letter to airport officials around the country, FAA head Stephen Dickson said with the rising number of incidents involving unruly and unsafe behavior, local police need to step up enforcement. “Every week police are asked to be there when a flight lands after an incident involving passengers, including cases in which they assault flight attendants,” Dickson wrot
Convene by PCMA
AUGUST 11, 2021
In June, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she will introduce a bill mandating that car crash test dummies be modeled on both male and female bodies. Michelle Russell. We were about to sail through an intersection but we never made it to the other side. Last fall, my daughter, Megan, was driving me and her infant daughter to meet friends at a park — we had the right of way and Megan was focused on the road ahead, when I saw out of the corner of my eye a car on the left he
Travel Pulse
AUGUST 17, 2021
The TSA and CDC today confirmed that the federal mask mandate on all public forms of transportation has been extended amid a Delta variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 infection.
Endless Events
AUGUST 4, 2021
One of the hottest topics in the events industry nowadays is hybrid and virtual audience engagement. But as the Event Tech Podcast highlights today, you can’t really talk about audience engagement without including audience response systems in the conversations. After all, the best way to learn what makes our beloved attendees tick is to simply ask them.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 12, 2021
Want to drive event attendance? Host a Disney meeting. After a year of Zoom and staying indoors, there is pent-up demand for travel, connection and meetings that goes beyond the boardroom—and there’s nowhere quite like Walt Disney World to hit all the marks with ease. We speak from experience. Smart Meetings joined the Disney Meetings and Events team in July on a three-day FAM trip at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, and witnessed firsthand the perks that bring incentive groups an
Conferences that Work
AUGUST 30, 2021
The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is my summary of what I think are the most interesting findings, plus some commentary. All quotes are from the article “ Virtual Growing Pains: Initial Lessons Learned from Organizing Virtual Workshops, Summits, Conferences, and Networking Events during a Global Pandemic “ in the Limnology an
Business Traveler USA
AUGUST 16, 2021
WHERE IS IT? Thirty minutes from the international airport and fronting a private beach with Isla Mujeres in the distance, Garza Blanca enjoys panoramic views just north of the main hotel zone. The pier near the hotel is also a convenient spot for area tours and excursions including a variety of watersport activities and catamaran sailings. WHAT’S IT LIKE?
Convene by PCMA
AUGUST 25, 2021
Discover five tips from Intrado Digital Media to help you choose the right technology partner for your next hybrid event. Though the event industry has undergone rapid transformation over the past year, events remain events! They have always presented a powerful opportunity to build a thriving community of brand advocates. With the right technology, that power is amplified across time and space.
Travel Pulse
AUGUST 13, 2021
With nonessential travel across land borders prohibited for 17 months and counting, Mexico’s travel industry stands to suffer from the lack of traveler spending from the U.S.
Endless Events
AUGUST 19, 2021
When you are hosting an event, we know you want everything to go perfectly. However, events have a lot of variables and with Murphy’s law, you can bet something can always go wrong. This isn’t to say your event is going to fall to pieces and you should just avoid having an event altogether, though. If you plan well enough, you may not even have anything go wrong!
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 19, 2021
The pandemic has been a very rough time for the nation’s destination marketing organizations , as it has for the hospitality and meetings industry as a whole. On the West Coast, at least, their response has been unprecedented: working together. It’s a modern version reflecting what Benjamin Franklin is said to have advised his fellow signers of the Declaration of Independence: “We must hang together or surely we shall hang separately.”.
Sojern
AUGUST 10, 2021
Optimizing Your Website for Online Conversions . 52% of experience bookings are happening before a traveler arrives at their destination, and this number continues to rise. But what happens if a traveler who has chosen their destination begins to search for things to do, finds your attraction’s website and has a hard time finding the activities you offer or the booking button?
Business Traveler USA
AUGUST 18, 2021
The majority of business travelers (61 percent) report having already taken their first multiday domestic business trip of the year, but international business travel is slower to recover. This according to a survey of 1,700 experienced travelers by Global Rescue, a travel risk and crisis response provider. Business travel owes the comeback to rising COVID-19 vaccination rates and the easing of government quarantine and testing mandates.
Convene by PCMA
AUGUST 16, 2021
Speak directly to safety concerns and travel hurdles facing international attendees, and provide them with helpful resources they can use to plan a successful trip, mdg suggests. Anjia Nicolaidis. International travel is coming back — even if it is taking longer than we would like. As vaccination rates climb and many countries ease travel restrictions, now is the ideal time to get serious about reengaging global attendees.
MeetingsNet
AUGUST 24, 2021
From double-sided carpet tape to door stoppers to adhesive dots, a new curated shopping site has launched with the necessities of on-site event execution. What’s on a meeting professionals Christmas list? Whether you’re looking for a laser measure, travel steamer, anti-slip tape, tally counter, power bank, glue gun, or some excellent insoles for a long day on the show floor, a new website called The Event Depot specializes in go-to products needed by those with the ultimate be-ready-for-anything
Endless Events
AUGUST 26, 2021
The Brew Crew is continuing its summer trend of reviewing the industry events! Today, they review The Special Event (TSE) that took place at the Miami Convention Center from July 19th to July 22nd. Thuy, Dustin, and Nick all got to see each other while there. Will transformed into an interviewer, asking the Brew Crew what they loved about the event and what they thought could’ve been better.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 16, 2021
In a world where experience costs and attendee expectations are rising, smart meeting planners will consider how to make the most of their content investment. Enter “Reflection Activities,” often described as “the connection between theory and action.” Catalyze your Content. Prior to Covid, learning content was increasingly recognized as a driver of the perception of value for meeting attendees.
Special Events
AUGUST 19, 2021
If all the other boxes are checked but you’re still feeling burnt out and unmotivated, it’s a good sign that your systems and workflows need some love and attention.
Business Traveler USA
AUGUST 16, 2021
As the aviation industry prepares to sustain a long-term recovery, Airports Council International World has published two guides to help airports deal with recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The third edition of ACI World’s Airport Operations Business Restart and Recovery has been retitled Airport Operations and COVID-19: Business Recovery , reflecting the severe impact of the pandemic on both the short-term economic outlook for aviation, and the longer-range implications.
Convene by PCMA
AUGUST 11, 2021
PCMA EduCon 2021 Main Stage speaker Janet Stovall, taking part virtually, answers questions from host Ameerah Saine, on stage at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge. Organizers need to ask how they can more seamlessly connect the online and in-person aspects of hybrid meetings for future events, Warren Berger says. Convene asked individuals from inside and outside the business events industry to talk about behaviors and other changes brought on by the pandemic that are lasting, and in particular, to sh
Travel Pulse
AUGUST 26, 2021
As the European Commission considers re-closing the E.U.’s borders to U.S. tourists, how much will the economic impact of such a move factor into officials’ decision-making?
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