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Articles tagged “meetings and events”

Business Travel

The world’s most popular international meeting destinations

Like all current travel trends, the international meetings market is moving from Europe towards Asia signaling both the need for Asian cities to prepare to accommodate the growing sector and for the rest of the world to more aggressively market themselves as suitable locations.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

The world’s most popular international meeting destinations

Airlines

SkyTeam targets meetings planners with flight booking tool

This is an interesting idea from SkyTeam, but it's doubtful this would be the first option that meeting planners would turn to.

Skift | 11 years ago

Business Travel

U.S. meetings and convention cities: Who gets bragging rights?

It's fierce competition for the lucrative convention market, and Las Vegas had better be on top of its game because business travelers sometimes long for something different as opposed to repeat visits to Vegas.

Richard N. Velotta , Las Vegas Sun | 11 years ago

U.S. meetings and convention cities: Who gets bragging rights?

Business Travel

Yokohama brands itself as “Japan’s First Port of Call” to get events business

Reaching far back into history for a branding message is a bit of a stretch that provides ample opportunity for the impact to get lost in translation. They should go with the simpler: "Yokohama: It's Close to Haneda Airport."

Skift | 11 years ago

Yokohama brands itself as “Japan’s First Port of Call” to get events business

Business Travel

Austin poised for more conventions with 4,000 new hotel rooms

Some 4,000 new hotel rooms are coming to HomeAway headquarters' city, Austin, Texas. With more rooms, Austin would become a more attractive host for meetings and conventions.

Skift | 11 years ago

Austin poised for more conventions with 4,000 new hotel rooms

Hotels

Austin is ready to take on more conventions, but needs more rooms first

Anyone whose been to Austin for its massive festivals knows the room crunch, and even services such as Airbnb and Homeaway can't fit all the people.

Gary Dinges, Austin American-Statesman | 11 years ago

Austin is ready to take on more conventions, but needs more rooms first

Tourism

New Orleans proposed hotel sales tax increase could affect conventions business

This tax increase won't have much effect on casual vacationers, but does come into play for larger conventions when meeting planners are comparison shopping across cities, hence this worry.

Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Los Angeles needs a modern convention center & it won’t wait for AEG

Ridiculous that the city is held hostage to a billionaire's whims about an NFL team. While LAX is finally being upgraded with a $4 billion investment, time a meetings and convention center comes up to match that.

David Zahniser, Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times | 11 years ago

Los Angeles needs a modern convention center & it won’t wait for AEG

Hotels

Abu Dhabi launches bureau dedicated to attracting lucrative conventions

Convention attendees spend more than domestic business travelers and foreign leisure tourists, making them and the expensive meetings they attend Abu Dhabi’s best bet for increasing tourism GDP.

ArabianBusiness.com Staff, HotelierMiddleEast.com | 11 years ago

Skift Originals

Top 2013 trends in the meetings industry: Think Asia, as Europe declines & U.S. flatlines

Asia on the up, Europe on the rise, North America flatlines: that's a litany across many industries, not just meetings and business travel. And for meetings, that means effects on hotel industry as a result.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Top 2013 trends in the meetings industry: Think Asia, as Europe declines & U.S. flatlines