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 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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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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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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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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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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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Smart Meetings National Experience at the sunny Eau Palm Beach , Florida, indulged, educated and inspired meeting professionals to get back to what they do best: surprising and delighting. Pssst. Check out all the fun photos from the event here ! Negotiating for the Win-win. From the first moments of the three-day reunion of top meeting planners and their potential hotel and destination partners, the emphasis was on getting what you need to deliver what audiences want.

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Skift Meetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Event planners are navigating a new frontier of delivering successful hybrid events. But what mix of technical and creative expertise do event teams need to do this successfully? We share seven key players you need in your hybrid event team. Unfamiliar formats, evolving technologies, new health and safety measures, content curation and ongoing attendee engagement […].

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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.

Travel Pulse

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The White House and two major airlines allay fears that the holiday travel season might be impacted by federal workers’ failure to get vaccinated by the mandated deadlines.

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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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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even on business, your break matters. You should enjoy it. Whether planning business travel for the purpose of team building or as an incentive trip , recreation should factor into your choice of city. Group recreation and shared business leisure experiences are opportunities to build trust and empathy in your professional relationships and to strengthen those connections.

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Eventbrite

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Even if you’re an event hosting pro, there may still be some Eventbrite features you didn’t realize could help make your job easier — and enhance the experience for your guests. That’s why we asked our Onboarding & Operations team for insider tips on our most overlooked tools. Build your event planning toolkit and get […].

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Shifting trends are found in how planners are measuring sustainability as well as overall event success, plus technology, budgets, and staffing. The third annual corporate-events research report from Germany-based meetings organization In-House Corporate Events (ICE) in conjunction with Cvent revealed several interesting trends as corporate-meeting departments coordinate events for 2022.

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Business Traveler USA

OCTOBER 18, 2021

United Airlines and Airlink , a South African airline, are partnering up for a new codeshare agreement that will offer customers more connections between the U.S. and Southern Africa than any other airline alliance. The new agreement (pending government approval) brings one-stop connections from the U.S. to more than 40 destinations in Southern Africa.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 22, 2021

EVA’s AI-powered platform provides powerful data insights that business event organizers can use for planning or reporting. The second-best part? EVA removes the burden of manually gathering and calculating that data. Collecting data is the easy part — untangling what that data means is where the hard work begins. EVA tackles that tough part, turning data into dashboards and giving business event organizers the benefit of being able to quickly and easily understand how their meeting is performin

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Stova

OCTOBER 21, 2021

One of the challenges event software providers and event professionals have to overcome (still) while hosting virtual events is: how can we ensure that our platform is capable of giving a voice to virtual attendees? It's ambitious and yet crucial to your event's success. Our answer to engaging virtual attendees is laid out for you below in two parts: first, ensure your platform offers the technical tools for them to be heard.

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Creative Group Inc

OCTOBER 21, 2021

An organization’s Annual Sales Kickoff is potentially the most important gathering of the year. Sales Kickoff meetings often bring together global audiences that can reach attendance numbers in the thousands. The intent is to ensure everyone is well-armed to “go to market” by departure day. This vital event, usually held in January, sets the tone for the entire year.

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Business Traveler USA

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A large majority of business travel industry professionals say they support the move by the US government to reopen the country’s borders next month. In the latest tracking poll from the Global Business Travel Association, three in four (74 percent) global travel buyers, suppliers and other stakeholders agree with the new protocols to admit fully vaccinated international travelers into the US.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, director, and producer Dan Levy is best known for his work on the runaway hit comedy series “Schitt’s Creek,” which he co-created with his father Eugene Levy. The writer and actor is beloved for his particular brand of comedy — and for the work he does for the causes he cares about. Among them is publicizing and raising money for the University of Alberta’s 12-lesson, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Indigenous Canada.

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Stova

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Executing a large-scale event can be fulfilling, but the larger you envision your event, the more effort you need to make it a success. Thinking outside of the box in terms of the available budget, time, and resources, allows you to step back, assess your goals, and adjust timelines accordingly. Advanced event planning is paramount to your brand's success.

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EHL Insights

OCTOBER 18, 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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Hospitality Meeting Technology Technology 98

Business Traveler USA

OCTOBER 18, 2021

WHERE IS IT? In the heart of the city, these original canal houses are linked via a maze of hallways and small gardens providing a uniquely Amsterdam experience. The hotel is a short walk from most popular Amsterdam attractions, and many of its rooms have exceptional views of the city’s famous network of canals. PROPERTY HIGHLIGHTS: Historic canal houses with Dutch art, clever design and an incredibly central location.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

DOWNLOAD BELOW. Your guide to navigating the changing business events industry to produce successful omni-channel events and experiences. Your audiences’ values, motivations, needs and desires have shifted—along with their attention spans. As we transitioned from conference rooms and convention centers to Zoom meetings and other digital platforms, it became clear that past strategies won’t cut it in this rapidly changing landscape.

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Eventbrite

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Halloween 2021 may be hurtling towards us but there’s still time to throw a spooktacular shindig. People in the UK spent £474 million celebrating Halloween in 2019, making it the nation’s top profit-generating holiday after Christmas and Easter. This is welcome news. But how can you beat the competition and enjoy impressive ticket sales?

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Hiring and job hunting is often an extracurricular activity of the conference experience. With in-person meetings heating up, IMEX America could be buzzing with interviews. Are you ready? It’s not news that many organizations cut their meeting staffs drastically during the pandemic, nor that the “Great Resignation” of 2021 saw millions of people leave their jobs in search of more money, more flexibility, and more happiness.

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Business Traveler USA

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Hilton has announced that its Digital Key technology now allows more than one guest to have access to their room’s Digital Key. The Digital Key Share option allows the primary guest to share their active key with up to four additional people via the Hilton Honors app. Secondary guests receiving an invitation go through a security check “that happens instantly in the background.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Due to the outstanding quality of applications received, the PCMA Foundation has expanded the number of Digital Events Strategist (DES) scholarships from 12 to 15, with a value of over US$13,000. We thank everyone who took the time to apply, we were overwhelmed with the response and encourage the community to watch for other scholarship opportunities in the future.

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Special Events

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Micro-weddings are no longer a matter of necessity—couples are opting for these intimate events out of choice and are much happier for it.

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Travel Pulse

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A recent consumer report from Trip by Concur reveals travelers’ top concerns about taking their next trip at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Business Traveler USA

OCTOBER 16, 2021

As guests stepped aboard Seabourn Odyssey in Barbados for her first, return-to-service cruise late this summer, their arrival signaled the kickoff of a successful restart for the ultra-luxury cruise line in the Caribbean. But that wasn’t all. After a year-and-a-half of a near total cruise industry shutdown, it was also, unknowingly, the beginning of my personal fantasy.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A recent Bloomberg article about how venture capitalists are navigating the COVID environment made clear the lack of uniformity about the return to in-person board meetings — and lack of protocol around acceptable greetings. Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash. “It feels like a bad middle school dance where no one is sure how close to get to the other person.

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ITA Group

OCTOBER 19, 2021

New Research Sneak Peek: How the Pandemic Impacted Employee Engagement. For months, we’ve weathered and adjusted (then readjusted) to employee engagement and talent management changes brought on by the pandemic, including: The way work is done. What employees want from the work they do. Factors that determine whether employees stay or leave an organization.

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Travel Pulse

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Civilian federal government workers must be fully vaccinated by November 22, but a sizable portion of TSA employees remain unvaccinated, which could lead to holiday travel back-ups.

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