Articles tagged “Meetings Mean Business”

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Cities Want to Leverage Conventions Better to Drive Growth — Meetings Innovation Report

There's a growing conversation in the U.S. about how city governments and convention bureaus can better pool their resources to promote their local startup and research communities to convention organizers.

Greg Oates, Skift | 6 years ago

Cities Want to Leverage Conventions Better to Drive Growth — Meetings Innovation Report
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Cities Lack Research to Determine Long-Term Economic Impacts of Conventions

City governments and convention bureaus would love to better understand the long-term economic impacts that conventions in advanced industries deliver to their cities, but there are a lot of challenges trying to establish metrics and tracking methodologies to accomplish that.

Meetings Mean Business + Skift | 6 years ago

Cities Lack Research to Determine Long-Term Economic Impacts of Conventions
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Free Report: Defining Conventions as Urban Innovation and Economic Accelerators

The meetings and conventions industry is evolving into a global innovation distribution channel. The challenge is mapping and measuring those long-term impacts.

Meetings Mean Business + Skift | 6 years ago

Free Report: Defining Conventions as Urban Innovation and Economic Accelerators

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The Meetings Industry Will Be More Sophisticated When the Next Backlash Comes

The Meetings Mean Business Coalition has built a strong war chest of advocacy materials supporting the value of face-to-face meetings, but incoming co-chair Paul Van Deventer says industry organizations should work more closely together to drive global growth.

Greg Oates, Skift | 7 years ago

The Meetings Industry Will Be More Sophisticated When the Next Backlash Comes

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The Meetings Industry Is Launching a New Advocacy Campaign, But Will it Work?

The new Meetings Mean Business ad campaign is timed to coincide with the national political conventions to impress upon governments that they should support hospitality and tourism's efforts to attract meetings and conventions.

Greg Oates, Skift | 7 years ago

The Meetings Industry Is Launching a New Advocacy Campaign, But Will it Work?

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Tourism Bureaus Band Together to Promote the Meeting Industry’s Economic Impact

Global Meetings Industry Day is an advocacy effort by hospitality and tourism companies to promote the value of face-to-face meetings, but there should be more focus on industry insight versus marketing-speak.

Greg Oates, Skift | 7 years ago

Tourism Bureaus Band Together to Promote the Meeting Industry’s Economic Impact

Meetings

How the Meetings Industry Is Getting Ready for the Future of Conventions

Since Meetings Mean Business launched in January 2014 with industry-wide representation (except for the airlines), the coalition has become a valuable resource for industry research. The next phase includes getting non-industry CEOs to advocate for the value of meetings, finally ending the millennial conversation, and partnering with new tech and sharing companies.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

How the Meetings Industry Is Getting Ready for the Future of Conventions

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Why the Meetings Industry Doesn’t Understand Millennial or Modern Needs

There's a huge gap today in the meetings industry between ideation and implementation when it comes to next generation meeting design and event technology.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Why the Meetings Industry Doesn’t Understand Millennial or Modern Needs