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10 Smart Strategies For Planning Sustainable Events

Endless Events

Sustainability is a hot-button issue for consumers around the globe. There was a 71% increase in online searches for sustainable goods — plus, public concern for the environment has grown by 16% since 2017. And no, this isn’t a trend that’s exclusive to consumer goods. Fifty-nine percent of event planners say environmental responsibility impacts their event plans.

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Does the Meetings Industry Have a Complacency Problem?

Smart Meetings

When author Salman Rushdie was stabbed 10 times just before giving a lecture in western New York, a crucial question was raised, perhaps the only one that matters: Why was such a high-risk person so easily accessible? Perhaps an even better question may be, “What will event organizers do to prevent something like this from happening again?”. We’ve been here before several times and the sequence is roughly the same: The accident happens, alarm is raised, authorities and event professionals take s

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Episode 56: Iron Sharpening Iron: Why Collaborating with Competitors Makes Us Better with Jennifer Clark from Emerge Events

Techsytalk

The pandemic powered many global event partnerships in a way that has made our industry better. In this episode, we chat with Jennifer Clark to learn more about how she’s been helping the techsytalk team do things we couldn’t do on our own, and how she’s helping and learning from event planners all over the world! While many people say you shouldn’t collaborate with your competitors, Jennifer knows it’s the way to true success!

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5 Amazing Group Travel Destinations for Adults

Traveler's Q

There are times when adults need to stop adulting and take some time off to relax. If you wish to have some adult fun on your next group trip, we have some suggestions. Read on to discover these five group travel destinations for adults. The post 5 Amazing Group Travel Destinations for Adults appeared first on Traveler's Q.

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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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What is the Future of Event Marketing?

Endless Events

Marketing has changed significantly over the last 10 to 15 years. Content marketing has seen a boom in activity. Twenty years ago, content marketing was what people wanted to be doing. Today, everyone’s doing it. And according to Will, it might be the bare minimum for brand awareness. What’s next for the future of event marketing? In today’s episode, Will Curran and Nick Borrelli talk about what’s in the future for event marketing.

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TWT: United May Pull Out of JFK, U.S. on Top of Travel and Tourism Markets

Smart Meetings

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. United Threatens to Pull Out of JFK. In a move first reported by Reuters, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby wrote an email to Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen asking him to increase the airline’s capacity at John F.

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Salary Survey 2022: What Do You Like Best, and Least, About Your Job?

Convene by PCMA

Attendees get reacquainted at Convening EMEA 2021 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Some respondents to the 2022 Salary Survey said travel, and meeting new people, were what they loved best about their event organizer roles. (Mattias Nutt/ mattiasnutt.ch ). For Convene ’s 2022 Salary Survey, we asked the event organizer respondents a series of open-ended questions about changes to their roles since the pandemic, what the like and dislike about their jobs, and what they would change about their jobs now.

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Alessandra Ambrosio: “The Islands I Go to Become Little Offices for Me”

Business Traveler USA

Supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio is never out of office, even at the beach. “It’s my favorite—the islands I go to become little offices for me.” More than 20 years after she launched her career, Ambrosio is still modeling and exploring the world, packing swimsuits from her brand, Gal Floripa, and her yoga mat to stay grounded. This wanderlust spirit is captured in the photo book Alessandra by Stewart Shining.

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TWT: United May Pull Out of JFK, U.S. on Top of Travel and Tourism Markets

Smart Meetings

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. United Threatens to Pull Out of JFK. In a move first reported by Reuters, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby wrote an email to Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen asking him to increase the airline’s capacity at John F.

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Meet the RECONVENE Accelerator Winners

Eventbrite

Earlier this year, Eventbrite put out a call to entrepreneurs, innovators, trendsetters, and anyone else interested in building or growing an events business. After sifting through hundreds of event proposals — ranging from music festivals to immersive fitness classes — Eventbrite selected five winners to join the RECONVENE Accelerator, providing direct support to these emerging […].

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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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How One Events Industry Professional Created Balance in Her Work Week

Convene by PCMA

Dana Johnston, CMP, asked an important question about each of the tasks she had to complete each week: Can someone else do this? In May 2020, Dana Johnston, CMP, was working as senior manager, convention operations and meetings, for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) when the association made the decision to make. its annual meeting, IDWeek, virtual.

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What's Trending: Hotels and the Bleisure Traveller

BCD Meetings & Events

For hotel owners, the overall growth of business travel and the emergence of the bleisure tourist represents an area of real opportunity. After all, business travellers with an interest in leisure are more likely to extend their stays, and may spend money on business facilities within hotels and the various offerings in the wider local community. Hotels are, of course, savvy to this and are looking at the different ways in which they can promote and entice the corporate business traveller to add

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ASAE Embraced Disruption at 2022 Annual Meeting

Smart Meetings

The return to The Center for Association Leadership’s (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Exposition brought almost 5,000 people to Nashville in August after two years of virtual experiences. With more than 100 sessions, the gathering focused on opportunities created through disruption. “We need to lean into a perpetual state of learning,” said ASAE President and CEO Michelle Mason.

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Online Dance Parties Beats Industry Email Benchmarks With Eventbrite Boost

Eventbrite

The disco ball strobes, the lights glow, and the music throbs. Everyone’s dabbing and strutting, twisting and twerking, in their finest club duds. Only this isn’t a nightclub or a warehouse party — it’s a living room or a bedroom (hey, even a pantry!) in any household attending an Online Dance Party. “I love making […].

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Is Work Flexibility a Bittersweet Benefit?

Convene by PCMA

For the majority of respondents to the latest Salary Survey, working from home is a huge plus. But some said they find that it results in even longer work hours. Work flexibility has increased as a result of the pandemic — 58 percent of employees can now work remotely some or all of the time, according to the “American Opportunity Survey,” published in June by McKinsey and Company.

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5 Tips for Crushing Your Next Sales Kickoff 

Bizzaboo

To bring sales teams together, increase employee engagement , and ensure team members are aligned on upcoming goals and messaging, innovative organizations host sales kickoff events at the beginning of each fiscal year. Unfortunately, you can’t simply decide to host a sales kickoff and expect great results. Instead, you need a plan to achieve the outcomes you’re aiming for. .

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California Passes Extensive Climate, Clean Energy Bill

Smart Meetings

On Wednesday, California lawmakers passed an extensive climate and clean energy bill with the goal of decarbonizing the state’s electrical grid, regulating projects to eliminate carbon from the atmosphere and eliminating new oil drilling near communities. In addition, SB-1137 calls for the closure of the state’s last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, to be postponed until 2030.

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Introducing Eventbrite Academy: An Event Creator’s Guide to Social Media Marketing

Eventbrite

At Eventbrite, we’re always thinking of ways we can empower you in your marketing journey – whether you’re an experienced promoter or planning your first-ever event. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to event marketing. That’s why we’ve researched current marketing trends and talked to dozens of creators just like you to better understand what it takes […].

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Salary Survey 2022: Calculating the Pandemic’s Effect on Event Organizers’ Compensation, Day-to-Day Work

Convene by PCMA

Some respondents said they relished the changes the pandemic brought to their roles, but for others, working in a business events environment that continues to have a lot of uncertainties is more stressful than ever. (Illustration by Leandro Castelao). While the pandemic was in full swing and in-person events were not taking place, we felt it would be tone deaf to continue conducting Convene ’s Annual Salary Survey — that by asking our usual benchmarking survey questions, we wouldn’t be recogniz

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6 fields of work in the hospitality and tourism sector

EHL Insights

While many EHL graduates do go on to work for hotels or tour companies, there are many fields that welcome hospitality management professionals. Embarking on a Bachelor program in Hospitality & Leisure Management means opening the door to a plethora of diverse career paths and industries that all draw on Hospitality's many transferable skills.

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ASAE Embraced Disruption at 2022 Annual Meeting

Smart Meetings

The return to The Center for Association Leadership’s (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Exposition brought almost 5,000 people to Nashville in August after two years of virtual experiences. With more than 100 sessions, the gathering focused on opportunities created through disruption. “We need to lean into a perpetual state of learning,” said ASAE President and CEO Michelle Mason.

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Attract a Global Audience by Switching to a Hybrid Conference

Eventbrite

Eventbrite works with major online conference platforms and services so that you can easily take your conferences online. Not only will a hybrid conference connect you with virtual conference participants from around the world, but it will also create new networking opportunities for attendees as well as a much larger pool of potential customers. Read […].

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7 Online Tools to Plan Your Next Hybrid Corporate Event in 2022

InEvent

The pandemic made businesses rethink their corporate events and shift towards digitalizing them. Digital and hybrid events became their ultimate resorts to comply with social distancing restrictions and provide a seamless experience to the attendees. In 2020, 71% of the global planners intended to continue with the virtual communication and networking strategy even when the … Post 7 Online Tools to Plan Your Next Hybrid Corporate Event in 2022 showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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Everything Event Planners Need to Know about Video Walls

Meeting Tomorrow

What is an LED Wall? An LED Wall (sometimes called a video wall) is a large screen that displays graphics, slides, videos, or other visuals. It is constructed of smaller LED tiles that are connected to show one cohesive image. LED Walls can be built in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Unlike a projection screen, an LED screen emits its own light, making it much brighter and more vibrant than a projector and screen.

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Smart Moves in Hawaii, Virginia and More

Smart Meetings

Vanessa Williams. Williams is general manager for Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club in Florida. She comes from Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills as its general manager. While in Beverly Hills, Williams was also on the board for Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau. Jason Baer. Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa named Baer director of sales and marketing.

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Focus forward – bigger, better, stronger

Travel Daily Media

The post Focus forward – bigger, better, stronger appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Flight Centre Corporate opens registrations for ‘Illuminate 2022’, to be held at Alexandria’s The Venue in Sydney on Thursday 20 October, with a ‘Focus Forward – Bigger, Better, Stronger’ theme. Illuminate 2022 will showcase the corporate travel industry’s collective determination to rebuild and rejuvenate, to help customers grow their businesses bigger, better and stronger.

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How Leadership Can Support Employees During Significant Personal Milestones

ITA Group

How Leadership Can Support Employees During Significant Personal Milestones. When it comes to caring for your employees during emotional times, a one size solution does not fit all. Today’s workforce is made up of employees going through all kinds of personal and professional change. Many of these employees are at di­fferent life stages, which means they have different priorities and concerns outside the office.

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Your Complete Guide To PR For Events

Eventtia

Creating positive press coverage is one of the best ways to build public awareness and enhance your brand reputation. Where advertising works to get your brand known, public relations (PR) tells your brand story, shaping public perception. PR professionals generate favorable publicity by managing brand communications and nurturing media relationships.

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Engagement beats technical difficulties

Conferences that Work

Earlier this year, I designed and facilitated an online workshop that was marred by technical difficulties. The workshop was several hours long, and some (but not all) of the participants reported that my video feed froze at times. Luckily, my audio feed was fine. Shortly afterward, I talked to a client who had participated in the workshop. I asked them about their workshop experience.

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HFTP announces 2023 HITEC North America advisory council

Travel Daily Media

The post HFTP announces 2023 HITEC North America advisory council appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP), producers of the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC) has put together an expert group of industry professionals to serve on the advisory council for its upcoming North American event.

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DMOs Are Putting Accessibility on the Front Page

Convene by PCMA

Visit Lauderdale is one of the DMOs to launch an accessibility page or micro site on their websites. Navigating a new city is challenging. Navigating a new city while looking for venues and meeting spaces that are accessible for individuals with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities — without a guide or directory — is even more challenging.

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Bookmark This: Airline Promises Are All in One Place

MeetingsNet

The DOT’s new Airline Customer Service Dashboard makes it easy for travelers to know what they’re entitled to in the event of flight delays and cancellations. Airline service has been notoriously poor this year. Labor and supply issues have created a spike in flight cancellations and delays, and longer TSA security lines. It’s not a pretty picture for travelers.

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What is a Rain Garden and Should You Plant One in Your Yard?

Redfin

Rain gardens are designed to collect stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces, such as roofs, streets, driveways, patios, parking lots, or waterlogged yards. The runoff is then allowed to seep back into the ground slowly, preventing it from reaching local waterways. Rain gardens are planted with tough plants that thrive during brief periods of inundation and drought, providing attractive habitats for pollinators and other wildlife.

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Bookmark This: Airline Promises Are All in One Place

Special Events

The DOT’s new Airline Customer Service Dashboard makes it easy for travelers to know what they’re entitled to in the event of flight delays and cancellations.

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Seattle Proves It’s a Welcoming Destination for Women Who Lead

Convene by PCMA

Seattle offers the best of an innovative, world-class urban center, surrounded by natural beauty. (Andrew Jacob Media). Earlier this year, Seattle earned a spot as one of the top 15 destinations for solo female travelers. In 2021, several Seattle-based companies were voted as some of the best employers for women in the U.S. , while in 2020, the city ranked No. 1 for women business owners.

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