Traveler's Q

MARCH 7, 2024

According to a report by Mordor Intelligence, the gamification market is set to reach $11 billion by 2024, with businesses investing in it for team building and employee engagement purposes. Not only do virtual and hybrid events save on costs and increase attendance rates, but they also allow for innovative and interactive experiences.

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Traveler's Q

JANUARY 3, 2024

From virtual events to sustainable practices and personalized experiences, corporate event planners must be aware of these trends and incorporate them into their strategies. In 2024, we will see an increasing emphasis on interactive elements, such as experiential activations and gamification, to engage attendees and encourage participation.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

33% of respondents report seeing 40% more revenue generated from in-person meetings and events versus virtual events. We were thrust into a world of virtual gatherings, with in-person events grinding to a halt. The Accor survey found that face-to-face meetings continue to prove invaluable.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Most event platforms on the market offer both in-person as well as virtual event gamification solutions. Therefore, event gamification incentivizes your attendees to become active participants by adding game-like features to your event. No wonder it is one of the most important virtual event platform features for many event planners!

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 19, 2022

Between the Great Resignation , the tight labor market and the increase in remote work, team building has never been more important. Professionally facilitated team-building activities help boost employee engagement, loyalty and retention. Team-building Programs Enable Your Organization to do Well by Doing Good.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

Louis required VanDeventer and the team to pivot. Often the cause of the delay is weather or, in the case of the last three years, pandemic-related complications, so building in contingencies is more important than ever, he emphasized. The team embraced the local culture right down to the shorts and linen guayabera shirts. “It

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Gallen to meet the team from START Global at a small event co-organised by them and to learn more about their work and the innovation that comes out of this event. The event was held on campus, at the Square building, where they held a panel discussion and a keynote with founders and a venture capital firm. Gallen for new team members.

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Best Corporate Events

AUGUST 30, 2022

Developing team cohesion and camaraderie is more important than ever for improving employee retention. A regular schedule of team building and professional development programs can check all the boxes: it builds strong relationships, enhances collaboration, increases employee loyalty , and improves interpersonal skills.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As a production company, we get a lot of questions about virtual attendee engagement. Because after producing dozens of successful virtual events over the past few months, we’ve learned a lot! In the past, we discussed the importance of paying attention to virtual attendee engagement every step of the way. Oh, polling!

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

What Groups Get Now Portal, Photo: Proto Images Area15 is home to 16 rides and experiences throughout the facility, whether it’s taking visitors on a cinematic experience via virtual reality, granting them a bird’s aviation skills virtually or teasing the brains of your group. An additional 85,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

See more : Team Building Made Adventurous. An on-site fly-fishing center features two ponds stocked with rainbow trout, group team-building activities and classes led by Matt Heron, a Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor. On the Fly. Instructors award points at each station. Out of the Shell.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Build trust and loyalty among existing customers. For example, you can engage your attendees after the big annual in-person events with follow-up virtual meet-ups and hybrid events. And as outlined above, feedback helps immensely when building your event marketing strategy. BUILDING AN EVENT MARKETING STRATEGY .

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Best Corporate Events

JANUARY 5, 2022

And according to AdWeek , while virtual and hybrid events are here to stay, “Few believe the limitless audience of a virtual event is worth the in-person trade-off of a live event…What we’re seeing is b-to-b events come back first, (as) it follows the back-to-the-office trend.” Bike Build Donation®.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Your virtual content needs to look professional and be enjoyable to engage with. This might involve adapting your physical venue for less mobile attendees, providing printed transcripts, or using the special features offered by your live-streaming software to build closed captions and audio description into your video content.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We witness corporate CEOs prioritizing events to engage their teams as they wrestle with the impact of hybrid work. Read More : Make Hybrid Events Worth Every Dollar for Virtual Attendees All of it underscores a recognition that togetherness is an essential ingredient for success. Get to know your audience on a deeper level.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 6, 2022

In 2020, we saw everything from mass cancellations to virtual-only events, as the world tried to grapple with the new reality of Covid-19. Some moved their events online, while others got creative with hybrid event models that combined in-person and virtual components.

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Best Corporate Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Do you love taking part in team building activities? Perhaps you appreciate the chance to give back to the community through corporate social responsibility (CSR) team building programs. It doesn’t need to fully make the case for team building, but only to get your boss interested in having the discussion.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2023

Whether you are coming together for team building, training or strategizing about near-term goals, corporate retreats are a great way to deepen employee engagement, provide workforce development and kickstart your planning cycle—all while having fun. Are you going to extend virtual participation? Team-building activities.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Relationships: Events are terrific at helping you truly focus on relationship building. Building a strategy behind these effortless connections is the first step towards long-term growth and success. The use of virtual, hybrid and in-person events is the key to long-term, event-led growth. So, let’s dive in.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 5, 2023

The message to meeting professionals is this: you don’t need to build memorable experiences from scratch—and you don’t have to fit your meeting into a box. Their venues are vineyards, ranches and other outdoor environments, which create meaningful experiences while also providing the necessary space for adult learning and team development.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

Brand activations and product launches can center around the actions of your end-users. Create a memorable hashtag and give your audience a chance to participate in an activity they will want to share on their profiles (ie. Building a strong community around your brand has become a big trend in the events industry.

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Best Corporate Events

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The practice of corporate team building has been around for almost a century. Team building encompasses a wide range of activities, from uplifting programs and fun charitable CSR events to impactful training and professional development workshops. Here’s why.

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Best Corporate Events

JULY 1, 2020

When the Going got tough…We got Virtual. Their answer was Virtual. Virtual events are at the forefront of today’s Corporate Team Building activities, where fun and interactive events like Virtual Game Shows are prevalent. Virtual Game Shows. The calm actually allowed us to reflect.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

What’s the trick to creating a memorable team-building experience? Team-building exercises are often memorable because they allow attendees see each other in a different context. Team building should be memorable not merely getting for out of the office, and doesn’t always have to be conventional.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

As discussed in our 2022 Event Trends Guide , hybrid events are not simply in-person and virtual events put together. But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. The same goes for content delivery. Why asynchronous events?

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

Although many brands have already started building in-house event marketing teams, many more haven’t. This is where a specialized agency can help: brainstorming virtual event ideas and bringing them to life to keep up with growing audience expectations. 21st Century Expo Group, Inc.

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Endless Events

MAY 22, 2020

Understandably, the advent of virtual events came to shake the very core of the industry. With countries shutting down and social distancing measures put in place, virtual experiences are the only choice planners have to stay afloat. Imagine Your Virtual Event Is Like A Chair…. To share their stories. To share their stories.

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Endless Events

APRIL 24, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Event Promo: How To Promote Your Virtual Event: A Graphic Guide. The moment you have all been waiting for: The Virtual Event Budget Calculator is here! My life is now a series of the same few activities performed over and over. We have been doing virtual and hybrid events for a while now.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While many have embraced virtual, the reality is, Harris said, there is no shortage of activity happening and many hotels are at capacity and finding space is a challenge. “I You know that the sales team may have a set of goals and you know what typically it is that appeals to them.”. 1 thing workforces asked for. “I

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Incentives Trends Insurance Sustainability 245

Eventtia

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Many corporations initially adopted virtual events to substitute their delayed or cancelled in-person events during the global pandemic. Yet, soon enough, corporations have begun to realize how virtual events can offer benefits we won’t otherwise get from the traditional in-person formats, and virtual corporate events are simply here to stay.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 19, 2021

When Maritz Global Events decided it was finally time to get back to face-to-face, the experience-design company brought 500 people who represented the entire meetings ecosystem to Seattle—clients, employees, team members and partners—and focused on talking openly and solving shared challenges. Seattle is a resilient place.”.

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Best Corporate Events

JANUARY 12, 2023

These intertwined elements have huge effects on employee satisfaction and engagement as well as team communication and collaboration, all of which are critical ingredients in the high-performance mix. In other words, not only are they better contributors, they provide more stability to a team.” They are the secret to happiness.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And one of the biggest question marks we’ve noticed pertains to a virtual event RFP. The Endless team is happy to introduce a comprehensive guide of what you should include in your virtual event RFP. The Endless team is happy to introduce a comprehensive guide of what you should include in your virtual event RFP.

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Have you ever tried to teach a class, promote a discussion, or get people to join in on an activity only to be met with blank stares and an awkward silence? Participation and engagement can also be tracked by monitoring app activity, chat activity, live polling, and by tracking social media updates. But what is event engagement?

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Best Corporate Events

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Roy Charette, managing partner at Best Corporate Events, and our team of facilitators and trainers work with hundreds of organizations and thousands of individual employees every year. The Role of Team Building Not every employee wants the same workplace structure. All of those activities enhance employee engagement.

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Remote Training Organization Communications 88

Best Corporate Events

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Roy Charette, managing partner at Best Corporate Events, and our team of facilitators and trainers work with hundreds of organizations and thousands of individual employees every year. The Role of Team Building Not every employee wants the same workplace structure. All of those activities enhance employee engagement.

Remote 88

Remote Training Organization Communications 88

Endless Events

MARCH 30, 2018

And while it’s important to collect and understand data, collecting and responding to feedback can also get you ahead by building audience loyalty. At first, this might sound like just adding silly little activities at intermission. However, the convenience of virtual reality apps can help bring an edge to your planning.

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