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Podcast

The Future of Group Bookings

Groups360 are making group travel booking easier for consumers and the hotels. The company urges planners to embrace new technology that increases efficiency, frees up resources, and ensures a direct connection between hotels and clients.
Podcast

A Vibrant Membership Makes a Prosperous Association

Newly elected ICCA president Marta Gomes shares her ambitious plans for connecting ICCA's global membership. She seeks to inspire and drive forward a vibrant community of association meeting professionals.
Destinations

Paving The Way During Unprecedented Challenges

Al Hutchinson is the President and CEO of Visit Baltimore, and has a 30-plus year career within the industry. Hutchinson’s career began with a blind advertisement in a newspaper back…
Podcast

Why Event Planners Need Humane Event Tech

Nick Borelli, an event technologist and educator, has been working in the tech space since he was 14. Over the years Borelli’s tech and hospitality experiences continued to merge as he…
Podcast

The State of Event Tech

Following the Covid-induced roller coaster ride of the last two-and-a-half years, event tech is in recovery mode. By most accounts the sector is over twice the size compared to before the Covid pandemic, but it is still coming to terms with the bubble it went through.
Podcast

The Community-Led Venue Leading the Race to Net Zero

SWG3 is a multi-disciplinary space located in Glasgow, Scotland. The venue is a collection of spaces which once operated as warehouses on the River Clyde and were initially taken on by…
Insights

State of Business Events

Over the last two-and-a-half years, we've regularly gathered data on the state of the industry. Analyzing primary data was particularly important at the peak of the COVID pandemic as it…
Diversity and Inclusion

Rethinking Event Accessibility

John Sage is a manual wheelchair user, after sustaining a T-4 incomplete spinal cord injury in a snow-skiing accident in 2001 at age 22. Since then he has traveled to…
Research

The Complete Guide to Event Data Strategy

We all know that the Covid-19 pandemic was the catalyst for the wave of virtual events over the last two years, but a new emphasis on data may be its…