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How Hospitality Hiring Trends Can Improve Your Hotel Experience

Smart Meetings

With more jobs offering flexible remote work than ever before, former staff are reluctant to return to physically demanding positions with rigid schedules. Prospective workers have high expectations—if hotels give them an offer they can’t refuse, meeting planners will reap the benefits of a smoother hospitality experience.

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Smart Moves in Greater Palm Springs, Chicago and More

Smart Meetings

He has enjoyed a robust hospitality career across various departments, including front office management, catering and remote sales. He will develop and lead new business opportunities as well as support prospective accounts and mentor and collaborate with sales team members.

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VR-Based Site Inspections Take Another Step Forward

MeetingsNet

InterContinental Hotels is piloting improved virtual-reality functionality that allows planners to customize set-ups in the event space they’re viewing. In addition, hoteliers estimate the new VR functionality could increase hotel revenue by up to eight percent and boost brand loyalty and affinity as well.

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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

A few possibilities for virtual event planners to provide networking opportunities for attendees include: Live chat tools alongside a session (part of the platform), where attendees can ask questions to the presenter and engage with each other.

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Top 10 Reasons to Meet in Canada

Convene by PCMA

With the borders now open to all fully vaccinated travelers, attendees can once again get excited about the prospect of an event in this fabulous, forward-thinking country. Keeping attendees safe is the number one priority for both event planners and venues themselves. As a planner, you already have so much on your plate.

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DI Study: Gen Z Doesn’t Believe There Are Good Jobs in Tourism Industry

Smart Meetings

The destination posts job descriptions and talent retention through TikTok to attract prospective employees. TikTok] for talent acquisition; or maybe Gen Zers may have a certain value toward rural life or urban life but want a job that’s remote in New York.”. How they’ve used it for talent acquisition is pretty unique.”.

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To-Do’s for Meetings

Brightspot Incentive Events

Uniting Remote Teams After Covid isolation in 2020 and 2021 and remote working in 2022, C-suite executives realized their team relationships had cooled. Our experts have collaborated to create a list of actionable To-Do’s to help you figure out how to balance invitations, venues, and food options so you can execute a seamless meeting.

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