Articles tagged “cvent”

Big travel management companies are going to look to acquire technology companies and smaller competitors as they struggle to scale up their technology platforms.

Cvent's new data platform helps meeting planners and convention bureaus compare sourcing trends and pricing patterns within their competitive sets.

By making its destination rankings more global in scope, Cvent hopes to expand its brand identity, exposure, and reach worldwide.

The biggest players in the convention industry are pivoting their operations to align with evolving digital platform trends, including the rise of the sharing economy.

The future of Cvent is going to focus on international, multilingual expansion and new digital tools to integrate event management and brand marketing.

The value of this list will grow year-over-year as we start to see movement among the cities.

As meeting professionals become increasingly pressured to keep in mind all of the happenings and expenses of events, there is still an overwhelming amount of planners who have yet to implement a mobile app to keep track of events in a simple, productive way.

Getting the right site is what separates smart meeting planners, those who know when to book, from the rest. How do they do it? They look at the “shoulder” seasons – the times in between a destination’s peak demand.

As the next generation of meeting planners rises in the work place, hotels and event venues need to better understand their behaviors to close more group business.

Technology is augmenting face-to-face meetings rather than replacing it.