Articles tagged “hybrid meetings”

Evoking emotion and stimulating the senses is the key to attendee engagement and creating positive, lasting memories, yet most planners still neglect experience and stick with convention. 

In a world where the word pivot took on new dimensions two years ago, the concept of hybrid meetings has followed suit. Investment in new technology and flexible spaces allows venues to host attendees from anywhere, putting fuel back into the tank of an events industry that needs it. 

Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at the persistence of virtual meetings in Asia, United’s new transatlantic routes, and road-tripping guidance in Southeast Asia.

Most industry forecasts point to an eventual recovery — even to the 2019 high of $1.4 trillion in annual spending — as business trips start to bounce back. But many underlying trends are emerging in a fragile global economy. How we travel, and for what purpose, is far from certain as we enter a new era of accountability.

We anticipate a convergence between travel expense management and meeting planning. Companies will see a boom in internal meetings for team bonding and training as the pandemic subsides. So they'll need software to rein in costs.

Expect to see more companies ramp up the decarbonization of their travel programs as sustainability takes on an even higher profile.

Traditional in-person meetings were paused in 2020, but innovation within the industry flourished out of necessity. Now is the time to use those lessons developed over the last year to rebuild even stronger. Cvent’s new eBook details everything you need to know about conducting safer meetings as hotels and venues begin to recover.

Office workers are now "residents." Carefully watch the language companies are using, and efforts to address so-called collaboration inequity, and you'll see signs that the future of work is already here.

Many office workers will be thinking they’ve never had it so good, working at home with all the comforts that come with it. We're about to find out how office building landlords, and their tenants, draw them back in.

Parts of the travel industry will always need that bit of automation. Now technology companies have the disjointed hybrid meeting booking process in their sights.