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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

Can my IT folks prevent a hack or act in case a virus invades your onsite registration system? The Economy : As we continue to look at in-person conferences and suppliers start to see revenue go up, the market for meeting planners to find venues and suppliers will become more competitive. A potential new tool (and weapon): drones.

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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Who’s Booking : Hyatt is seeing a huge increase in leads from third-party RFP platforms like Cvent, and site selection companies like HelmsBriscoe. People are “cautiously optimistic” about the small meetings market for Q4 of this year. As of May 25, their Q2 lead volume has already surpassed Q1 numbers.

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Elevate Your Group Travel Experience: Incentive Travel Company vs. Travel Agency

Brightspot Incentive Events

These partners provide boots-on-the-ground knowledge and management to help advise and assist on-site. Site Selection and Negotiation Incentive travel companies need to be able to effectively negotiate hotel contracts to ensure their clients receive the best value for their investment.

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Elevate Your Group Travel Experience: Incentive Travel Company vs. Travel Agency

Brightspot Incentive Events

These partners provide boots-on-the-ground knowledge and management to help advise and assist on-site. Site Selection and Negotiation Incentive travel companies need to be able to effectively negotiate hotel contracts to ensure their clients receive the best value for their investment.

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Success Story: Fall Product Launch with Celebrity Endorsement, Hilton Head, South Carolina

Blue Spark Event Design

Client Objective: Create a custom brand-activation event experience for 500 attendees at the The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa that offered a beautiful product-focused event design , perfect for product marketing shots(wanna see the PHOTOS ?), Services we provided: Site Selection and Negotiation. Entertainment.

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Dissecting the Generative AI Disruption for Events

Convene by PCMA

(Sergio Membrillas illustration) Audience members who are finding a use for AI tools, according to their comments in the chat, are experimenting with scriptwriting, research, marketing, copy, RFPs, and emails. I think this is actually going to be a standard type of prompt that marketing teams have going into the future.

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Event Planner Challenges and Opportunities of the Next Decade

Maritz Global Events

Post authored by Rachel Stephan, Event Marketing Strategist, sensov/ event marketing. Event registration platforms and management software hold a goldmine of information: names, business titles, personal/business email addresses, phone numbers, travel itineraries and reservations and more. Data Protection.

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