Dana Communications

MARCH 20, 2023

A Global Business Travel Association industry poll indicates a massive uptick in business trips for 2023, with 78% of travel managers and 85% of travel suppliers expecting higher or much higher numbers year-over-year. With slightly rusty skills likely to exacerbate these road warriors’ frustrations, we’ve unpacked three business traveler pain points — and eight solutions your resort or hotel can provide.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 28, 2023

How the industry is celebrating and what you can do to support March 30 th marks Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) 2023 and there is more excitement than ever. This year’s focus is #MeetingsMatter, a reference to reminding the business world that meetings are important and a call to action for building a foundation that breeds success for the future.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

MARCH 29, 2023

You could hunt all over the state for authentic handcrafted art representing South Carolina’s rich and diverse cultural heritage. Or you could pop over to the South Carolina Artisans Center to explore the handcrafted Art by handpicked Artists – see, touch, smell, taste, and shop art. Located in Walterboro and founded in 1994, the state’s official folk art and craft center is a one-stop showcase for fine handmade crafts of every imaginable variety and media, from Gullah sweetg

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Motivation Excellence

MARCH 13, 2023

Lilly Jobes started as a travel program coordinator in the late summer of 2022, and everyone who has worked with her has nothing but compliments to cast her way! She may be soft-spoken, but she’s not necessarily shy. She’s also up for trying new things, experiencing new cultures and rescuing animals! Read below and watch our one minute video interview to Get to Know Lilly this month.

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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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Travel Pulse

MARCH 26, 2023

The processing time for US passport applications and renewals has increased again, as State Department employees scramble to keep up with an unprecedented number of submissions.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 24, 2023

The Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA) advocates for the business events industry, meeting with elected officials at the local, state, and federal levels to advance the industry. In February, PCMA became the 10th partner of the Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA), a coalition of professional, industry, and labor organizations that advocate as a unified voice of the business events industry.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 31, 2023

Harris Sakalis Sakalis is executive chef for Fairmont Vancouver Airport’s Globe@YVR Restaurant and Jetside Lounge. Sakalis arrived in Canada from Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2016, at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta as executive chef, his most recent role. He has also worked as executive chef for Fairmont Southampton in Bermuda and Rosewood Abu Dhabi as chef de cuisine.

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Hotel Engine

MARCH 17, 2023

Finding the perfect toiletry bag is important. Traveling will take you out of your ‘home domain.’ This change means that you will need to find a way to make your morning and evening hygiene routines as straightforward as possible. In other words—you’re going to need a toiletry bag that’ll help […] The post Frequent Business Traveler?

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 28, 2023

To achieve true sustainability, planners should understand where the energy comes from that's powering their meetings. Here's how to do that—with or without the venue's assistance. An event venue’s power source has a notable effect on a meeting’s total carbon emissions. After all, a hotel that’s connected to a regional utility whose power is, say, 80 percent derived from fossil fuels produces significantly more carbon than a hotel whose regional utility uses 40 percent fossil fuel

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Travel Pulse

MARCH 1, 2023

"Envisioning Tourism in 2030 & Beyond" provides a glimpse into what the travel industry should be doing now to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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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.

Convene by PCMA

MARCH 31, 2023

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting participants met at the underwater table in the Kelp Conference Room in the Global Collaboration Village. (Courtesy of Accenture) Convene editors gathered ideas and insights from a variety of sources to examine what the metaverse is and how business events professionals are and will be using it in the future. This is one in a series of stories (see list at bottom) from the March/April issue of Convene.

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Skift Meetings

MARCH 2, 2023

Skift Take: In the age of Zoom fatigue and hybrid work, outdoor activities are an ideal solution for team-building exercises that re-energize participants and build company culture. Discover eleven inspiring ideas grounded in real-world Arizona adventures, and download the accompanying free planner checklist to make sure your outdoor event goes off without a hitch.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

How meeting profs can keep event data safe with the latest cybersecurity tools You don’t want to be the next data leak to hit the headlines. Maintaining the security and protection of your organization’s information is a requirement for producing a successful event. Your attendees trust you and are counting on you to treat their information with the utmost care.

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Hotel Engine

MARCH 14, 2023

When you run a small business, your success comes from maintaining a good balance of the critical factors. But how do you juggle a corporate travel budget while still keeping your bank account above water? Business trips can be an integral part of your company’s objectives. Adding up all the basic […] The post Small Business Guide to Corporate Travel Planning appeared first on Hotel Engine.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 31, 2023

The newest Speaking Industry Benchmark Report is out with details on this year’s hot topics, what speakers are charging (and what planners are paying), and more. Demand is hot for speakers who address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. In fact, event professionals are just as eager to find DEI-focused speakers as those who address time-honored topics around leadership and motivation.

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Travel Pulse

MARCH 28, 2023

The new website Journey to Clean aims to help travelers learn about the sustainability practices and efforts of well-known travel industry companies and brands.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 6, 2023

Event planners are experiencing sticker shock from rising costs for audiovisual, food and beverage, and other direct meeting expenses. (Whatever Media Group) According to a study by the World Scholarship Vault , event planner stress levels are hitting a new high — the third-most stressful job in the world for 2023. Meanwhile, nearly every article I read or industry panel I attend is proclaiming that our industry is nearing a full recovery.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 27, 2023

AMSTERDAM – Meetingselect , leading marketplace for meeting venues, group bookings, and workspaces, announces the appointment of Rachel Havas as Cluster Director of Latin and North America (LATAM & NORAM). Havas brings nearly three decades of world-class experience, including time as Executive Director of the logistic for Sponsor Programs during the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and Country Special Houses operations for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 16, 2023

On St. Patrick’s Day in the United States, folks Irish, a little Irish and not Irish at all embrace the “wearin’ of the green” and all things Emerald Isle. While a lot of those tropes are stereotypes, the Irish love of storytelling is not and it’s a concept that meeting planners can embrace and learn from. In Irish culture, the storyteller is called a seanchaí which means “bearer of old lore.

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Hotel Engine

MARCH 26, 2023

Combining business trips with a bit of fun in your free time is the newest trend in travel. While traveling for work is something people have done for centuries, today’s generations want to optimize their schedule and enjoy life, too. Enter bleisure travel. It’s traveling that mixes business and leisure […] The post Bleisure Recommendations for the Top Business Travel Destinations appeared first on Hotel Engine.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 31, 2023

A recent MeetingsNet webinar addressed the role of event technologist in both strategy and logistics, and how planners seeking to be one can get their executives to buy into this now-critical skill set. Although the Covid pandemic is firmly in the rear-view mirror, the waves it created across the business-events industry will be permanent. A far greater reliance on technology has come to the meeting-planning task, producing a new role that many planners don’t realize has an actual name: event te

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Fox World Travel

MARCH 21, 2023

Hi! I’m Elizabeth Klitzka, Vacation Travel Advisor in Sheboygan. With a career in the travel industry for nearly 28 years, I know a thing or two about the best ways to travel. Personally, cruising is my favorite way to see multiple destinations in a short period of time. Whether you’re contemplating your first cruise or […] The post Choose How YOU Cruise appeared first on Fox World Travel.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 31, 2023

Detroit is awash in accolades – including being named to TIME’s most recent list of the top 50 places to visit and winning first place awards from USA Today in 2023 for best riverwalk, art museum, public square and holiday parade. The city these publications are applauding is also a great place to do business. Let’s take a closer look at five great reasons to choose Detroit for your next meeting – its cuisine, hotels, venues, entertainment, and unique culture.

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Travel Pulse

MARCH 19, 2023

This year’s Sargassum algae bloom in the Atlantic began growing early and is now roughly 5,000 miles wide, and it’s headed toward Florida, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean beaches.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Event technology company Cvent announced that after going public for a second time in 2021 through a special acquisition at a valuation of $5.3 billion, it will be acquired by a New York-based private equity fund managed by Blackstone for $4.6 billion. The highly anticipated deal represents an $8.50 per share price for stockholders, a 52% premium over the 90-day running average prior to Jan. 30, the day before reports of a potential transaction were published.

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Hotel Engine

MARCH 24, 2023

Entrepreneurship conferences are always awesome. They allow you to network with other entrepreneurs and to learn new skills that you can use to take your business to the next level. Whether you’re a keynote speaker at a blockchain research conference or you’re heading to a global summit to pitch your […] The post Hacks for Getting Better Accommodations at Entrepreneurship Conferences appeared first on Hotel Engine.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 22, 2023

The post Drukyul’s Literature Festival by Bhutan Echoes to be held from 4th – 6th August 2023 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Bhutan’s Department of Tourism (DoT) has confirmed that the Drukyul’s Literature Festival by Bhutan Echoes will be held from 4 th to 6 th August 2023 in the capital Thimphu. The annual literature festival, organized independently by Bhutan Echoes, a literature and arts initiative, aims to celebrate works of literature and arts by Bhutanese and

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of websites for event planners so some of the hardest-working professionals can complete every task on their list. Ready to dive straight in? Browse the list or skip through the table of contents: Table of Contents News Websites and Blogs for Event Planners Websites for Event Industry Memberships, Certificates, and Certifications Websites for Finding Event Venue Websites for Researching Event Technology Get Started: Bookmark the Best Event Planning Websites News Websites an

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 30, 2023

This year, PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties program honors its 10th class of exceptional young leaders in the business events industry. Class member Anna Lommatzsch, CMP, DES, event manager at Informa Markets, shares her thoughts on keeping mental health and physical wellbeing front of mind at work and at events. What creative initiative, innovation, or meeting format that came out of the pandemic do you believe should remain?

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BCD Meetings & Events

MARCH 27, 2023

Pharma Forum was back this year with a packed schedule of educational sessions. In attendance were team members from BCD M&E's Life Sciences Center of Excellence. With multiple sessions throughout the four day event, Jenna Baker, Vice President Account Management, Life Sciences Center of Excellence and Liz Dodson, Congress Practice Area Lead & Global Account Director, compiled 5 key takeaways from this year's event.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

How the meetings industry is celebrating #GMID2023 Destinations across the United States are showing just how much #meetingsmatter. This year marks the sixth annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), hosted by U.S. Travel Association and Meeting Professionals International (MPI), where meeting professionals display their appreciation for the industry that brings us all together.

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Hotel Engine

MARCH 23, 2023

Traveling will often require you to take some extra shoes with you. This could mean gym shoes, work boots, dress shoes — or any other type of shoe you may need while away for work. There’s an important detail to remember when traveling with packed shoes, though: you don’t want […] The post Top 10 Bags and Luggage with Shoe Compartments appeared first on Hotel Engine.

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EHL Insights

MARCH 2, 2023

All BOSC3 students take the course Talent Management Systems (TMS). We have learned that well-designed systems must adapt to the environment and relate to talent retention and company profitability. Is this true in practice? To find out, we interviewed Lilian Labropoulou, Head of Human Resources at the Four Seasons Hotel in Athens, Greece. Here is what we learned.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 30, 2023

The post World First comes to Wynyard Tunnels as part of Vivid Sydney 2023 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Australia’s largest festival, Vivid Sydney, announced that it will add a first-ever activation of the Wynyard railway tunnels to the festival’s upcoming program with the world premiere of Dark Spectrum. Three years in the making and tipped as an underground spectacular of what lies beneath, Dark Spectrum will fuse a dynamic musical soundtrack with the lat

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 28, 2023

Deep colors and rich textures give this CORT Events-designed meeting space a feel that both inspires attendees and helps your meeting stand out from the competition. It’s a time for renewal, and deep, rich 70s-influenced colors and textures are leading the way in effective event design. At CORT Events, our event design experts leverage such up-and-coming trends—our new product line launches April 2023— to assist your team in creating truly share-worthy experiences.

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