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MARCH 26, 2024

I think we have something really unique and special here.” Can we sell it? Can we grow it for groups? Can we sell it to individuals?” I love to see the outcome of what we’ve shared with everybody when it comes to health and wellness. Now, we’ll be able to put something clearer together for groups.

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APRIL 23, 2024

There’s a lot of survey data measuring people’s attitudes, preferences, beliefs and satisfaction, but we saw an opportunity to dive into where the rubber meets the road, how attendees are making decisions and how to influence that,” she said. Read More: Are You Ready to Supercharge On-site Event Registration?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The initiative ladders back to MGM Resorts’ Focus on What Matters credo that includes the environment, guests, communities and the people who make it all happen–employees. “We We understand employees have passions and goals outside of work. The program has two primary objectives. It was like starting fresh,” she said.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I recently organized one which included leaders from global investment, real estate, tech and legal firms, as well as a community police relations foundation, a hacking expert who worked for the government and an up-and-coming artist who many compare to Andy Warhol. You might ask, “What does this have to do with meeting planners?”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“Thirty of the 70 people in our class were on Facebook and they were the only ones who showed up to the 10-year reunion because we had no idea how the hell to get ahold of anybody else aside from running into their mom at the grocery store or something like that,” he said. We’re having to adapt really, really fast,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But when we find that we’re feeling stressed more often than not, we could face serious effects on our physical and mental health, our work and our quality of life. People who experience high levels of stress are also more likely to experience depression or anxiety disorders and even engage in addictive behavior.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Incentive Travel Trends Explained Stephanie Harris The event kicked off with Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) President Stephanie Harris explaining the findings of the latest Incentive Travel Index report and the biggest challenges we face as an industry. Truly understanding who you are designing for requires talking to them.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2024

You just have to talk like you normally talk and ask it to do things as you would ask an intern who doesn’t know anything, but is really good at researching,” he said. Even Outlook is going to be 50% AI in the not-too-distant future, so we better get used to using it, he added. “It This is not a fad you can outwait. Never fear.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I feel like we are much closer to being peers in the industry, instead of just planner and supplier, and we have a deep mutual respect for each other,” she explains. It] brings with it the knowledge that the individual who has earned the CMP designation worked hard to achieve it and takes our industry very seriously (as I do!).”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Post-F1 Recap “Who comes to an F1 race?” We were so excited to be able to bring that quantity of people here to Las Vegas to enjoy everything the town has to offer.” These are folks who said ‘I would not have come to Las Vegas,’ but for being here [at F1], which is pretty terrific,” he said. “Max start time, that was rough.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Remember, we’re all human beings first,” she said. We work with planners to find the right venue and team-building activity to connect them with the destination.” We all get sick and when you are on the road, it is nice to have access to someone who can help.” At the same time, this is still a people business.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

One in three adults who love to indulge in a cocktail or glass of wine every now and then are rethinking their relationship with alcohol, per a recent CivicScience poll. This trend isn’t merely a random personal choice; it’s truly reshaping the very fabric of events and conventions.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Its website describes SocialOffset’s brief this way: “We are a community of people determined to stay true to our values when we travel to or host events. We help event attendees and business travelers offset spending in destinations whose laws do not align with their core values by making it easy to donate to local charities that do.”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Women’s Bean Project is a nonprofit organization hiring women who have been unsuccessful in finding employment and provides a personalized program for each individual to bolster their self-esteem and learn life and job skills they can utilize anywhere they go. We want her to be able to replicate the job search when she leaves.”

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Endless Events

APRIL 18, 2022

The Event Tech Podcast is often so excited about all the innovation, new event platforms, and other event tech solutions on the market that we forget to talk about the digital divide in the events industry. But what about those who don’t have their own Wi-Fi set up? What do we do with those audiences?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

One of the areas we’re getting into is food safety. We’re doing food safety certification because folks will need to know that you know can’t just grow and send stuff out into a retailer.” Like many events, we went online and delivered webinars during the pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had Covid-19 or who have received Covid-19 vaccines.” Smart Meetings: How concerned should we be about the newest COVID variant BA.2.86? Donal Bisanzio: It is too soon to know if we should be concerned about the circulation of BA.2.86. 4 and Sept.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

We know they have differences in how they need to connect and what they need to connect about. So, putting line staff in medical practices next to leaders created a dissonance with our attendees, and in the content and discussions we were fostering resonated with some but not with others, and vice versa.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You can be the best event planner in the world and have wonderful clients who love you, but none of that will matter if you don’t have a solid team of vendors to work with. We each play our role to bring an event to life so we need to be on good terms and work well together for the sake of the client’s event and our industry as a whole.

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MARCH 13, 2024

The leaders would come on TV at the end of the day and say, ‘We collected 20,000 tons of garbage this year, what an amazing Mardi Gras it was.’ That was a long time ago and a different mindset, but I think now it’s really good to see our leaders talking about how much we were able to divert from landfills as a measure of success.”

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 15, 2024

Play is an antidote to stress and a foundation for wellness,” according to NIFP researchers, who have partnered with Visit California to share their findings. As we mature, we develop a style or mode in which we are most comfortable being playful,” said Dr. Stuart Brown, NIFP founder. Play is in our DNA in California.

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Endless Events

MAY 31, 2022

Those who have survived the harsh conditions of the pandemic are fully booked and expensive. They give sound advice to event planners and up-and-coming event technology enthusiasts who are just getting started in the events industry. “Everybody who was freelance struggled, in the beginning, to find jobs and get work. .

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ADMEI

MARCH 19, 2024

While managing an entire team of DMC professionals at BBC Events, she continues to enhance the hospitality industry with team members who strive for excellence and pride in their craft. Together, we are ADMEI!” Denise is also no stranger to ADMEI. Their unwavering dedication and outstanding service have led ADMEI to new heights.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We tried to walk in people’s shoes and imagine what we wanted them to experience when they enter,” said Oliver “ Oli” Bailey, show experience/senior operations manager with IMEX Group. “We We choreographed the welcome experience with photo opportunities and lots of immersive experience.” We have learned to say, ‘yes.’

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One friend, who was a professor at Columbia Business School, brought his colleagues and some members of the financial media. Meeting planners who want to create an impactful event can look to walking tours for this kind of interactive connection.” One of the simplest ways to do so is by employing a local organized walking tour.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We give so much to others. We love so much for others, but we really need to start with loving ourselves. Cliffe says, We are now constantly at this heightened state, and we don’t even realize that we are. We’re the tower, and we have an energy field within us that’s expanding and vibrating,” she said.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We asked the experts at three properties to share trends in wellness activations they are seeing in 2023. DH: Mindfulness is the most popular theme we have seen. At Baha Mar we offer Infuz with 5 IV options and 4 booster shots that can be given as a shot or added to an IV as a booster.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I think we are the trusted source. We are the trusted advisor,” says Mason. “We We have an opportunity…We need to tell our story about how we make advances.” to the best of our ability once we started to get that muscle memory back in an in-person meeting,” says Mason. We as humans have wisdom.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

The 8th annual Smart Woman Summit at New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square was dedicated to event professionals who perform at the highest levels. “By By recognizing brilliance, we encourage more exceptional work and normalize stepping up, innovating and taking chances,” said Marin Bright, Smart Meetings founder and CEO. “By

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

We are highlighting women who have worked their way up and earned the position of General Manager (GM) to show our appreciation for their dedication to hospitality, their genuine passion for helping others and for standing strong in an industry where men still dominate the majority of leadership roles. They are closely connected.

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APRIL 4, 2023

But I have this need because these are modern day young women who wish they were white. We were chatting and I said, “what about a girl scout badge?” We need these types of efforts. Q: What issues should we address in the workplace when it comes to Asian inclusion? Who does that include? That’s really fun.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Sheldon Jacobson, who has worked in aviation and airport security since the mid ‘90s and has had interactions with TSA, says what they’re hoping to do is add efficiency, although, in the short run, he doesn’t believe it’ll actually be all that much quicker than a normal run through the airport security checkpoint. “The Security breaches. “It’s

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Motivation Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

In this blog, we will be highlighting some recent wins by women as well as shine a light on some women from the past you may not have heard about before. At Motivation Excellence we have a lot to celebrate when it comes to women. Be the person who lifts up women at work and in your personal life. Either way – go women!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I have a husband, who is a wonderful partner, and we have an amazing daughter. I cherish the time we get to spend together at home, as well as the time we take to travel together to experience other cultures through food, music and traditions. We enjoy lots of laughs, hugs and fun every day.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2024

The more than 4,200 people who attended PCMA’s 2024 Convening Leaders in San Diego this week and another 700 who registered to stream the education sessions were encouraged to “Think Bigger.” We saw a surge after the announcement,” he said. Leonard Hoops, president and CEO of Visit Indy and incoming PCMA Chair, agreed.

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JUNE 30, 2023

How to design events that leave a lasting impact At MPI’s WEC 2023 , Jacques Martiquet, known professionally as The Party Scientist , had a room full of meeting professionals dancing, laughing and opening their hearts to people who had been strangers when they entered the room. They may get tired, or struggle to stay focused. “If

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JULY 20, 2023

Just because people have orbited the sun on this rock we call home an equivalent number of times doesn’t imply they share anything else in common. To substantiate this, we can refer to our research. To substantiate this, we can refer to our research. Mostly, these are tax forms. However, you don’t need to hire us.

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