Endless Events

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Planning a safe event is by no means something that is new in the world of event planners, but it has definitely gained new meaning in the last 18 months. When we think of staying safe and sound at events these days, our minds first go to COVID-compliance officers, screening procedures, and hand sanitizers. And since the #EventIcons podcast is all about talking about the hottest topics in the events industry, we brought on a special guest who specializes in all things event safety and security.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Nevada’s Clark County Commission made a decision that may forever change that way travelers traverse the Las Vegas Strip. The commission unanimously approved a special use permit and 50-year franchise agreement for a proposed 29-mile tunnel system under The Strip, to be designed by Elon Musk ’s The Boring Company. This permit only allows The Boring Company “to apply for and receive building permits to construct the proposed tunnels,” a press release reads.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When someone decides on a destination for their next vacation, they’ll turn to Google or travel sites to plan the details — where they’ll stay in that city, what activities they’ll do, etc. Destination marketers should take advantage of the moments when potential travelers are searching for things to do, places to stay etc. in their destination. And to do that , you need a solid SEM strategy.

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ETC Corporate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The winners were announced during the Award ceremony that took place in Athens, Greece, on 21 st October 2021. The ‘Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism’ Awards enhance the visibility of European cultural tourism destinations, create a platform for sharing experience and knowledge and promotes networking between destinations. The 2021 is focused on the theme of ‘Regenerating European Tourism through Culture, Heritage and Creativity’.

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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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Techsytalk

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As we get deeper into the world of virtual events, we're starting to learn best practices and places on the road to watch out for.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A well-designed stage can help you stand out from the crowd and can be a make or break factor of the experience for your audience. But before you commit to an event stage design, it’s important to consider all the factors that go into creating one. Support your event goals and impress your audience with the following guide. Whether you’re an event planning pro or a total beginner, you have the power to create your own stage design simply by mastering the basic concepts of production design.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Now that most parts of the country are on the downslope of the whiplash Delta variant, meeting professionals are reassessing what their future programs will look like. For a preview, we asked Eric Holmen, CEO of Splash , the event marketing software company that powers tens of thousands of business events each month, for trends in how organizers are adjusting their programs.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We couldn’t be more excited about our new representative for Virginia and West Virginia: Becca Meyers! Becca has worked in travel & tourism for over two decades. Starting her career as a Tour Guide at her family business, Luray Caverns in beautiful Luray, Virginia in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley, then moving on to their Marketing and PR Department where her love of travel and tourism grew from there.

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ETC Corporate

OCTOBER 28, 2021

2 in 3 Europeans plan to travel in the next six months, building on the confidence restored over the summer. Intra-European trips overtake domestic travelling: 55% of short-term travellers prefer to visit another European country. Air travel is on the rise, with over 50% of respondents stating they feel comfortable taking a plane again. Although the peak summer season has been left behind, the desire for travel remains strong across Europe. 66% of Europeans plan trips through March 2022, while i

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Best Corporate Events

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The practice of corporate team building has been around for almost a century. But it’s never been more critical than today, as businesses struggle with the “new normal” of the post-COVID economy. Here’s why. Although business is constantly evolving, rarely has so much changed in such a short time in terms of human resources. The word “unprecedented” has been thrown around a lot recently, but in terms of the speed and scope of change in the workplace, that word fits what enterprises face today.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> Please stop doing this! There’s a big difference between unconferences and traditional events. Here’s how Wikipedia defines an unconference: “An unconference is a participant-driven meeting.” “Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. ” — Unconference

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When we talk about movement at events, our minds might go to walking around the venue at in-person events or walking to the fridge if we’re attending a virtual experience. But what if we told you that a little movement goes a long way even before or during speaker presentations? Taking care of the health of the attendees is a growing trend in the events industry – and we’re not just talking about COVID-19 compliance at events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Editor’s Note : This is part of a monthly series on the planning process for producing IMEX America , the 10th anniversary of the landmark industry gathering scheduled for Nov. 9-11 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. After news that the United States would open to vaccinated international travelers starting Nov. 8, a fresh round of registrations poured in, bringing the total number registered for the now mask-optional IMEX America at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino to 10,000.

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Travel Pulse

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Thai officials have authorized the creation of a new tourism fee, which is to go into effect in 2022 and help fund projects that will take its tourism industry in a new direction.

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ETC Corporate

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With the summer now behind us, Europe is entering a different stage in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. 74% of EU adults are now fully vaccinated and vaccination efforts are ongoing throughout Europe. Despite the continued spread of the virus at community level, the impact of the pandemic on public health has been brought under control within the EU.

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EHL Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Today, guests expect to be provided with a consumer-centric hotel experience from the word go, including when they are choosing a destination. They also want new experiences, faster customer service, the utmost comfort, and the list continues to grow. So, how can hotel operators meet these needs?

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the in-person meeting industry. Though it took too long to recognize that COVID-19 spreads via air transmission , we finally have effective procedures (vaccine mandates, masking, air quality standards, and social distancing) to reduce infection risk at in-person meetings. Now, meeting planners can add an affordable air quality tool to their site visits.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 7, 2021

What’s brewing, event prof? Have you been reevaluating the events industry lately? If not, you might want to press play and hear out what the Event Brew hosts have to say about that. It seems that our industry changes on a weekly basis; one week, we’re planning a safe return to in-person events, only to be advised to play it safe and pivot to virtual again the next.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Meeting planning always seems to have another trick up its sleeve no matter how prepared you thought you were. With this and ever-changing rules and regulations about Covid-19 safety, what is a meeting professional to do? While every case of planning differs, there exists a general idea as to what you should ask and do to keep yourself and your attendees in good health.

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Travel Pulse

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Global leaders at the G7 transport and health meeting agreed upon a set of key principles to fix current issues with international travel and future-proof the industry.

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ETC Corporate

OCTOBER 7, 2021

COVID-19 still acts as a deterrent for many long-haul travellers; however, the travel outlook has improved since autumn 2020. Effectiveness in managing COVID-19 will drive travellers’ destination choice in the coming months with places with a low number of cases prioritised. As vaccination rates continue to grow, ETC calls for more harmonised travel rules and greater clarity for long-haul travellers.

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EHL Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Before the pandemic, hotel brands were at a crossroads with increasingly brand agnostic consumers and ever-expanding brand portfolios. But there is evidence that the pandemic may have led to consumers’ renewed appreciation for a well-recognized brand name that assures quality and instills trust. This change in consumer behavior will impact brand management strategies in several significant ways.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 7, 2021

With the power to influence, energize, ignite, and even empower an audience, an impactful keynote speech has the potential to make or break an event’s success. But what is a keynote speaker, exactly, and how do you go about finding the right one? Let’s find out. . In this post, we take a deep dive into what a keynote speaker is: Who they are, what they do, and where to find them.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Oh, creativity ! This beautiful ability translates our ideas and imagination into reality. The events industry is seeping with it. After all, couldn’t events be considered a work of art? Just like any other artistic expression, event planning is a process, defined by diligence, open-mindedness, patience, resourcefulness, collaboration, and of course, imagination and innovation.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Countries are reopening their borders like crocuses cautiously poking their noses out of the spring ground. Not everyone is ready yet, and some countries are emerging from their pandemic restrictions more slowly than others. Since June, however, borders that had closed in March of last year have begun to open back up for business travel. border openings.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 25, 2021

What do we need to understand to mediate connection effectively today? Inventor and computer scientist Danny Hillis gives us some helpful context: “We humans are changing. We have become so intertwined with what we have created that we are no longer separate from it. We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and the artificial. We are what we make.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The 20,000-square-foot Oasis immersion space at the Palais des congre?s de Montre?al is embedded with hundreds of surround-sound speakers, LED lights, and projectors. The business model for convention centers underwent the event industry’s most public-facing change during the pandemic, serving their communities as makeshift hospitals, shelters, and vaccination sites — short-term models to meet a health and social crisis.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

There’s no room for error in the present environment, so meeting planners have work to do in finding an event host who has the right touch. There’s no doubt that recent cultural shifts have inspired much-needed exploration of our use of language and brought about some positive corrections. And while it’s natural that an event emcee wants to be personable, entertaining, and occasionally funny, that host must be especially mindful of his or her content and language.

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Business Traveler USA

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Los Cabos Tourism Board is touting a remarkable 100 percent recovery of its travel and tourism activity with a 20 percent growth in tourism arrivals managed in the last quarter from July to September 2021 as compared to the same period in 2019. In September 2021 alone, Los Cabos showed nearly 118,000 international arrivals – marking its most successful September month ever with a 40 percent increase in international arrivals compared to 2019.

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Travel Pulse

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The CDC’s updated list of travel advisories assigned to foreign countries has seen several warnings raised to the highest levels and others lowered, based on COVID-19 risk.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Though the return to travel continues to ramp up for planners and other business travelers, all is not back to normal, at least not yet. In the latest setback, Southwest Airlines has been canceling and delaying domestic flights in droves for nearly a week. Since Oct. 9, the airline has canceled almost 2,000 flights and hundreds more were delayed, blaming a mixture of unsafe and unpredictable weather changes as well as air traffic control issues.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In 2009, the biologist E.O. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” — E. O. Wilson , debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The event industry’s Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge requires signatories to commit to targets aligned with the Paris Climate Accord, which includes achieving a 50-percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 on the way to net zero emissions by 2050. Leaders from the business events industry will present a Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge, signed by players in the industry, during a session at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, which runs Oct. 31 through Nov. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Skift Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Virtual events have the potential to reach much larger audiences, but can they deliver on the promise of remote networking opportunities? We cover eight strategies for better networking at virtual events. If there’s one consensus around virtual events, it’s that they’re great for delivering educational content, but fall short when it comes to networking.

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Business Traveler USA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Italy’s new flag carrier ITA Airways launched on October 15, following the closure of its predecessor Alitalia. The carrier says it plans initially to operate a network of 44 destinations and 59 routes, rising to 74 routes in 2022 and 89 by 2025. The airline has unveiled its new livery which has been inspired by the blue of Italy’s national football and rugby teams.

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