Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The post How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The post How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Business event planner respondents to Convene s 31st Annual Meetings Market Survey shared their biggest work challenges in open-ended responses, which fell into similar categories as the 2023 responses, but with budget woes taking the lead. Inflation is a widespread issue that exacerbates planners struggles. Find more details below.)

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The post How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The post How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The post How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 1, 2025

Plan with Confidence Elevating Excellence: Why Meeting Planners Are Choosing the Pennsylvania Convention Center With over one million square feet of saleable space and the largest ballroom in the northeast, the Pennsylvanian Convention Center offers meeting planners an unbeatable blend of scale, service, and sustainability.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The post How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The post How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Partnering with agencies can reduce cost and save time In many scenarios, planners have limited resources on hand. That often means seeking out third-party agencies and independent planners to attain their goals and create a stellar event. According to Crosby this amounts to 20-30% of what a planner could have spent.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

The sticky details and specific wording make for important safeguards for planners as well as suppliers in ensuring everyone gets what they want out of the partnership. Developing a solid relationship with everyone involved in the contract process means planners will have a wider net of people to contact if an issue were to arise. “If

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

Read More: How to Build a Risk-assessment Checklist Smart Meetings reached out to Kevin Coffey , travel security and meeting risk advisor and trainer, to get some insights on what planners can learn from the CrowdStrike incident and how they can prepare for the future. But it is important for planners and suppliers to be the same page.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

Read More: How to Build a Risk-assessment Checklist Smart Meetings reached out to Kevin Coffey , travel security and meeting risk advisor and trainer, to get some insights on what planners can learn from the CrowdStrike incident and how they can prepare for the future. But it is important for planners and suppliers to be the same page.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Read More: Public Art is Unifying, Function and Important How You Can Work Refract into Your Seattle Meetings Kris LaFata, Visit Seattle One of the great conundrums of planners in recent years: how do you get attendees engaged in new and exciting ways? All the planner needs to do is to let them know about it.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2024

How the gig economy is impacting the events industry In honor of Labor Day, Smart Meetings chatted with Tracy Judge, founder and CEO of Soundings , to get the latest scoop on the trends currently emerging within the freelance meeting planner gig economy. SM What types of freelance meeting planner roles are most in demand?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 18, 2024

Our newer planners, they don’t know anything different.” Learn more: Humanizing the Evolution of Events Burnout is a concern, he acknowledges, but overall the constant forward motion is a positive for his planners. The post William Fogler, Veteran Planner, Looks Back On 20 Years appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Lucky for planners, incentive travel is growing. Gregg cited the budget allocations for 2023 versus 2024, looking at the different areas of a budget that planners typically work with. Only 8% of North American corporate and agency buyers report decreased activity over 2024 and 2025, and only 6% have reported decreases for 2026.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 14, 2024

Read More: Incentive Travel: Interactive Connection is the Name of the Game The post New and Renovated: Calling All Incentive Planners appeared first on Smart Meetings. Each offer guests a stylish and exclusive experience for an exciting and serene retreat.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2024

Event planners who embrace wellness not only meet the evolving demands of attendees but also create environments that foster deeper engagement and satisfaction. Event planners can schedule morning yoga sessions, offer fitness center access, and organize interactive activities like scavenger hunts or fun runs. For the attendee?

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The MICE Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For event planners, this means access to a wealth of expertise and real-world examples of sustainability in action. Climate adaptation is crucial for all residents. This reality has driven the city to develop comprehensive resilience strategies that benefit both locals and visitors. Field trip at Urban Future: floating city tour.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

How planners can safeguard their attendees against hotel room breaches In 2022, at a private event in Las Vegas during “hacker summer camp,” as the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences have come to be known, a group of researchers found a flaw that could put millions of hotel rooms around the world at risk of being breached.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

The word “partnership” gets thrown around a lot in the events world, but when there are too few ballrooms for too many functions being planned, meeting planners and hotel and destination counterparts often find themselves on the losing end of negotiations that could be win-wins. Kirsten Olean with CFF agreed. That builds trust.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By working with Visit Bellevue, the planners for Lenovo Tech World 2024 show the transformative power of partnership. Lenovo Tech World is the global technology company’s annual event, and as events at this level go, it’s an enormous undertaking for the planners organizing it. Having this kind of advocacy is completely helpful.”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As more planners and partners in hospitality and tourism incorporate sustainability into their business models, it becomes a need-to-have, rather than a nice-to-have. And once establishing an understanding of the intersecting elements of sustainability in this way, it offers some actionable steps planners can take to be part of the solution.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This new global program is focused on helping meeting planners embed sustainability into their events at our hotels, with the aim of making us all better stewards of the communities and environments where we operate. In October, Marriott International was thrilled to announce Connect Responsibly with Marriott Bonvoy Events.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 11, 2025

Read More: First Business Events Industry Week Celebrated The Power of Meeting A development that surprised many was the buzz The Palm Beaches Florida sparked with a fashion show featuring planner models and vibrant Florida vibes. Destinations International President and CEO Don Welsh stressed the importance of what meeting planners do today.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Her wealth of experience offers valuable lessons for planners organizing their own multiday events. I sat down with Murphy to discuss her insights, from coordinating Dickens on Centre to what other planners might learn from her experience. Read More : Hey, Busy Meeting Planner, You Feeling Stressed? MM First, know your end goal.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 9, 2025

Planners will be pleased to find nearly 10,000 sq. Planners will find 17 standalone meeting venues, including the 5,940-square-foot Plaza Ballroom and the 1,452-square-foot Pleasantville Room. of meeting and event space onsite.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Inspired by Burning Man’s “Net Positive” approach, planners are designing events that don’t just minimize waste but actively leave a positive impact. In the same way, AI and supportive administrative teams work behind the scenes, handling the details so planners can focus on the heart of the experience.

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The MICE Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This heritage offers event planners unique opportunities to create memorable experiences that incorporate the automotive theme. For event planners, the museum offers three meeting rooms, with the largest accommodating up to 350 seated guests. Mercedes-Benz Museum The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an extraordinary event venue.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 3, 2025

To celebrate, the hosts behind the Smart Meetings podcast, Smart Start Radio: Fuel for the Purpose Generation of Meeting Planners , reached out to planners who have spoken on past episodes to hear what they had to say. Alexis Dick, CTA Event Planner, HARDI See her speak in Meeting of the Minds: Discover Professional Growth Secrets.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Let’s learn more. It’s more than just the physical of what they have available.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2024

SM How does offering these resources improve the event experience for attendees and planners? For planners, these tools enhance the events value by fostering engagement, sparking ideas and empowering participants to create meaningful change. This in turn increases internal buy-in, likely event funding, attendee experience and loyalty.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As airlines increasingly adopt New Distribution Capability (NDC) technology, Travelports solution ensures that planners and business travelers can efficiently compare and book the best options across multiple suppliers. From the start, it was clear to me that our brands and vision were perfectly aligned.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

By working with Visit Bellevue, the planners for Lenovo Tech World 2024 show the transformative power of partnership. Lenovo Tech World is the global technology company’s annual event, and as events at this level go, it’s an enormous undertaking for the planners organizing it. Having this kind of advocacy is completely helpful.”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

How can planners help their attendees to feel a sense of genuine belonging through their event design? In this February 2024 magazine feature story, Henshalls insights provide guidance to planners around how to create neuroinclusive events and why its crucial as the industry evolves. Is There a Formula for Happiness?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

By working with Visit Bellevue, the planners for Lenovo Tech World 2024 show the transformative power of partnership. Lenovo Tech World is the global technology company’s annual event, and as events at this level go, it’s an enormous undertaking for the planners organizing it. Having this kind of advocacy is completely helpful.”

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