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If You Don?t Have A Virtual Event Budget? We Need To Fix That!

Endless Events

?? The Best of the Best: All About That Money, Honey: How To Create Your Virtual Event Budget: Calculator Included! Live Stream Dream Team: How To Live Stream Your Event. ? Need more help with your virtual event budget? We’ve got you covered. Here is our free virtual event budget calculator. A Virtual Concert On Mother’s Day ??. This Mother’s Day was a bit of a challenge.

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Will Covid-19 kill Incentive Travel?

Pádraic Gilligan

by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE Will Covid-19 kill Incentive travel? Part of me loves the speculation, the permutations and combinations. The “if this, then that” logic that we indulge in on a daily basis. I’m referring, of course, to the endless chatter around what meetings 3.0 or incentives 3.0.

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Defining Employee Engagement and Making a Case for Nurturing It

Motivation Excellence

What do we mean by “employee engagement”? Employee engagement means that employees are committed to their companies. Employee engagement isn’t the same as employee satisfaction. It also means that these employees are connected to their organizations. In today’s world, a business will fail if its employees are not engaged, but it will succeed if the employees are fully engaged at work.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom

Conferences that Work

Why implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom? I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Why? Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A.

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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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The Events Industry & The Hub And Spoke Method Post-Pandemic

Endless Events

Recently, BizBash shared an article that proposed the hub and spoke method. Now, why does this make sense and what does it even mean? Let us paint a vivid picture for you: as a pandemic sweeps the world, the events industry suffers. But planners and profs alike are resourceful, which is why we’re seeing a huge spike in virtual events. And as days pass, there is only one certainty all of us can agree on.

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How to Get Your Speakers to Say Yes to Your Online Event

Eventtia

Running an online event comes with a set of challenges. Apart from deciding the structure of your online event and the way you’ll organize the online sessions, you also have to “sell” the idea to your potential speakers.

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The Big News on ‘Micro Weddings’

Special Events

In the wake of the COVID crisis, wedding expert Emily Sullivan shares ways fellow planners can design successful "micro weddings.

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The Ultimate Guide To The History Of Event Tech

Endless Events

We’re taking a trip down memory lane and revisiting the history of event tech! And what better place to do it than the Event Tech Podcast? Over the course of several episodes, we’ve covered everything event tech-related. From Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to cybersecurity for events and virtual event platform reviews , this podcast has done it all.

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Can Socially Distanced Pop-Ups Help Bring Back Live Events?

BizBash

A group of event pros recently created a design-forward take on drive-by graduation and prom celebrations. Their next challenge? Brand activations.

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How to Monetize Your Online Events

Eventtia

Online events are great for increasing brand awareness and generating high-quality leads. But can they make you money? Absolutely. In the same way that you can capitalize on your face-to-face events and charge an attendance fee, you can easily capitalize on your online events. Furthermore, these online events can become a recurrent income resource.

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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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Managing Event Client Expectations and Boundaries

Special Events

Wedding expert Jennifer Taylor shares tips on meeting event client expectations.

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What’s the Hotel Experience of the Near Future?

MeetingsNet

Every hotel brand is making decisions on how to create a welcoming, comfortable, and productive experience that can be delivered safely. It won’t be easy. For business travelers, the “new normal” is coming closer to reality with each passing week. New York is talking about a large-scale reopening in June , while some conferences and shows originally set for September and October have announced their intention to go on as planned.

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New Zealand confirms business events of up to 100 can go ahead

Travel Daily Media

The post New Zealand confirms business events of up to 100 can go ahead appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. After the easing of restrictions on social gatherings and travel this week, the New Zealand government has confirmed ticketed large events, including domestic business events and conferences can now go ahead with a 100-person limit.

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Custom Events: Bringing Our Clients a Taste of Chicago

Just Right Destination Management

Custom Events | Bringing Our Clients a Taste of Chicago. The idea of planning custom events is both intriguing and daunting. In a day and age where what works for one person almost never works for another, planning events tailored to your company or group’s needs is truly ideal. It can also be intimidating and expensive! If you’re interested in planning custom events just right for your mission, vision, and organizational values, we have plenty of experience and would love to help!

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Catering at Events in the Wake of COVID-19

Special Events

Catering pro Abby Borden suggests innovative ways to serve event guests safely.

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Eventtia Ek? Podcast #2: Virtual Attendee Engagement with Juraj Holub

Eventtia

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Book meetings with confidence at Mandarin Oriental

Travel Daily Media

The post Book meetings with confidence at Mandarin Oriental appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has introduced an exclusive ‘Booking with Confidence’ group meeting offer. Valid until 31 January 2021, the hotel chain will waive any cancellation fees should government and travel guidelines give rise to event cancellation, provided that advance notice is received at least 30 days ahead of the event.

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COVID-19 and Event Industry: Leading Through Difficult Times

Special Events

Design and event expert Eddie Zaratsian shares tips for event company leaders to manage their teams through the COVID crisis.

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WTTC calls on world leaders to implement new ‘Safe Travel’ protocols

Travel Daily Media

The post WTTC calls on world leaders to implement new ‘Safe Travel’ protocols appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The World Travel & Tourism Council ( WTTC ), has published a range of new worldwide measures to restart the travel & tourism private sector. The organisation has now called upon governments around the world to incorporate the measures and help restore confidence among consumers so they can travel safely once the restrictions are lifted.

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