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Meetings and Events Industry News

News, interviews, and coverage of the meetings and events industry, from in-person events to hybrid events to online events.

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Potential Slowdown Raises Concerns for Meetings Sector

The meetings business tells a story about itself of strength and resilience, but sustainability and increased pressure on planners pose as obstacles to sustained growth.

Potential Slowdown Raises Concerns for Meetings Sector

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Cvent Hitches Up With Wedding Spot to Boost Venue Business

Cvent remains committed to bringing new products to its customers through acquisitions. By diving into the U.S. market for weddings, the event tech giant hopes to keep its platform relevant despite the friction it creates for hotels and planners alike.

Cvent Hitches Up With Wedding Spot to Boost Venue Business

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Events Sector Searches for Future at IMEX Frankfurt

Industry trade shows often act as a celebration of a sector's successes. A trip to IMEX Frankfurt, though, shows the meetings and events sector needs to embrace change instead of what has worked in the past.

Events Sector Searches for Future at IMEX Frankfurt

Meetings

Business Gets More Challenging for Planners

Planners expect the uncertainty of an election year and difficulty working with venues to top the list of challenges they face in 2020. For now, business is good but becoming more complicated.

Business Gets More Challenging for Planners

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Meeting Planners Anticipate Rough Year in 2020

Tight budgets, competition, needy clients, last-minute requests, and unresponsive venues rise to the top of the list of challenges planners need to tackle in 2019. They anticipate tougher times next year.

Meeting Planners Anticipate Rough Year in 2020

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Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Present Challenge for Event Planners

Events offer a major opportunity to bring different kinds of people together. Planners need to do more to not just attract but also empower those who have been left out by the traditional paradigms of event design.

Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Present Challenge for Event Planners

Hotels

Cvent Research Points to Lasting Group Booking Slowdown

Cvent's group booking research shows that consolidation and increased costs have likely caused the hot meetings market in North America to cool down on its platform. It could signal something bad for the sector on the horizon.

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Planners Need Better Education to Create Diverse and Inclusive Events

Meetings and events should reflect the wider world, not just the insular sphere of corporate executives. Planners, though, need better education to create experiences that welcome a more diverse set of attendees.

Planners Need Better Education to Create Diverse and Inclusive Events

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Eventbrite’s Slow Ticketfly Integration Leads to Growing Losses

Eventbrite is getting slammed by investors as costs mount from integrating Ticketfly. The company's core ticketing business is strong, though. It needs to bring new event technology products to market once the Ticketfly quagmire ends.

Eventbrite’s Slow Ticketfly Integration Leads to Growing Losses

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Destinations Promote Secondary Neighborhoods to Event Planners

Event attendees may find it convenient to remain downtown during their business trips, but convention and visitors bureaus increasingly want them to spread out.

Destinations Promote Secondary Neighborhoods to Event Planners