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The daily task of an event planner revolves around an innovative approach and creativity. At times planners get saturated and find it very hard to add new ideas to the ongoing projects. Nowadays, (...)
This new year promises plenty of exciting trends for the event industry. A US-based management company, Destination Hotels & Resorts, has recently conducted a planner’s survey that projects (...)
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The title of an event invitation holds the key that decides whether readers are going to read the next line …or not. The title also determines the opening rate of email invitations sent to target (...)
As a planner you are managing a corporate team outing, a corporate sport events or retreat, and what planners do before, during and after these events will have an effect on their level of (...)
What could be the best way to market an event to your target group? How should members’ list receive an invitation? Planners often face these challenges in their daily work routine. This time we (...)
Eating healthy meals can be a challenging task when planners are travelling or on the event site, but certainly not impossible! Flights and meetings can prompt you to make hasty, unhealthy food (...)
How secure is your event? Do you have a plan if some mishaps take place at your event location? Planners and event organizers should always have an answer at the ready for such questions. The (...)
Demands of different lighting designs and audio systems are at a peak due to the upcoming festive season. Lights and sounds play a vital role in an event since they provide special attention. On (...)
An event planner every so often will face numerous problems to handle the participants’ list, an especially crucial point since that list will define the participation level and arrangement of the (...)
After the planning phase, one of the most important part of event planning is creating an adequate and attractive event proposal. Due the increasing number of events, with planners presently (...)
After the event completion, organizers and planners start calculating the returns of the event. Measuring event remains one of the top priorities for the meeting industry as well as being (...)
Small meetings hold a significant business percentage of the entire meeting industry and require specialized meeting planners to handle it. Changing technology trends resulted in great impact on (...)
Most times, planners send a RFP and get stuck with vendors as the information was not filled properly. Filling a complete RFP form on the other side can be a time-consuming and frustrating (...)
The Meetings Technology Expo 2012 took place in Rosemont, Illinois at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Event and meeting professionals from across the globe gathered to see new (...)
In past few years technology has pushed the meeting industry to a new horizon by providing numerous solutions to different industry related issues. This time we have selected few most impactful (...)
In this cutting edge competition, hotels are not leaving any scope to lose business opportunities. Web presence, online booking engine, social media marketing etc. nowadays become basic tools for (...)
The meetings and events industry is progressing with a high growth rate. Though all companies who conduct events are contributing to this industry only a few individuals have been massively (...)
Establishing an optimal pricing strategy for guestrooms is a tough task for hoteliers considering growing competition and seasonality factors. Read the (...)
Disabled tourists often face many challenges inside hotel properties as most of the hotels are not provided with disabled friendly equipment. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides (...)
Wednesday November 14th, 2012 will see the moon come between the Sun and the Earth. This time the tropical town of Cairns, Australia will be where the people will be able to watch a total (...)
When was the last time you saw a clear night sky? Can you recall your last shooting star? Most popular destinations don’t offer a clean and dark sky at night. We have arranged a list of (...)
World Tourism Day was officially celebrated on 27th September in Spain and this time it was dedicated to environment-friendly initiatives taking place in the tourism industry. Read the (...)
The entire hotel industry is facing tough competition where each individual property is trying every possible way to reach out to customers. The Global Distribution System is well known for its (...)
A SAS company’s subsidiary, IDeaS Revenue Solutions offers revenue management and consultancy services to the hospitality industry. Hotel companies started adopting this new approach to monitor (...)
Facebook, the leading social media company with over 950 million users, offers various business solutions to different industry segments. This time we have tried to evaluate the hotel chains that (...)
The Four Seasons hotel chain recently jumped into a new level of corporate hospitality by introducing their in-house corporate transportation system. Allowing business men to reconnect or even (...)
Use of social media in business has gone beyond than just creating a company profile and adding few friends or connections. Here are a few best practices that can be followed in order to achieve (...)
Active Network recently announced their partnership with Sonic Foundry to launch a new webcasting services for meeting planners. It offers high-quality recoding technology with high-touch (...)
L’édition 2013 du Salon Bedouk, qui s’est déroulé les 6 et 7 février, a confirmé l’intérêt des professionnels de la Meeting Industry pour ce grand rendez-vous généraliste qui a mis la nouveauté au centre de son positionnement.