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Changes at the Top
Leadership promotions go into effect January 1 at the top of the food chain at Maritz, Smithbucklin, and Hosts Global. The new year will usher in several leadership changing at leading...
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End-to-End iPhone Travel Tools
The iPhone Wallet app is now home to Hyatt room keys, and it might soon help speed you through TSA security checkpoints. It’s commonplace to use the iPhone to store airline boarding passes and credit...
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Two Minutes with Charlene Rabideau
A veteran third-party meetings executive with a newly expanded role talks about shifting to virtual formats and changes to the meeting-management landscape. BCD Meetings & Events has promoted...
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What's Stressing You Out?
Are you overwhelmed at work or doing okay? Burnt out or invigorated? Take MeetingsNet’s four-question survey on stress in the meeting-planner role. Meeting planning is considered a high-stress job,...
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A New Wordle for Travel Pros?
Are you a meeting professional with a well-stamped passport? This Wordle spinoff might be your next fixation. You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the Wordle phenomenon. The web-based word...
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10 Places to Meet Fellow Planners This Year
Face-to-face education and networking are back for meeting professionals. If you think you don’t have the budget, use this list of 2022 events to learn which have hosted-buyer programs, early-bird...
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A First for the TSA: Mobile-Phone IDs
At one U.S. airport, passengers can now put their driver’s license in an iPhone or Apple Watch to verify their identity for airport-security screening purposes. Here’s a question that will make a good...
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Survey: Job Stress Pushing Planners to the Breaking Point
The latest MeetingsNet research finds that 42.3 percent of respondents have considered leaving the planning profession entirely since 2020. If stress has been a constant weight on your shoulders...
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Unshakeable: 3 Keys to Leading Through Adversity
The benefits of leading a meeting team that’s purpose-driven, future-focused, and heart-centered. In March 2020, when the world shut down and my live event calendar was wiped clean—like many of...
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A Sneak Peek at Planner Salaries
A recent survey reveals pay ranges for mid-level planners in North America, Europe, and elsewhere. When it comes to meeting planner compensation, North America is the place to be. A June survey by...
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Travelers’ New Hankering? High-Tech Bag Tags
Later this year, Alaska Airlines will be the first U.S. airline to add electronic bag tags to speed up the check-in process. Alaska Airlines plans to be the first U.S. airline to offer digital bag...
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Bookmark This: Airline Promises Are All in One Place
The DOT’s new Airline Customer Service Dashboard makes it easy for travelers to know what they’re entitled to in the event of flight delays and cancellations. Airline service has been notoriously poor...
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Two New Requirements for Travel to EU Countries
Next year, U.S. citizens headed to the European Union will need to register with the EES and submit an ETIAS application. Not familiar with those? Here’s what each requires and when each goes into...
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PCMA to Planners: Be a Better Performer, and a Better Manager
At the recent Convening Leaders 2023 conference, the association for convention and trade-show management delivered advice from experts on pushing beyond one’s comfort zone to try new approaches. For...
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Can Lawmakers Improve the Air Travel Experience?
Strong consumer-protection legislation is making its way through Congress in the wake of a couple of very difficult months for the airline industry. Few would argue that the experience of connecting...
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Upbeat Jobs Report Reveals Ongoing Industry Recovery
While staffing in the leisure and hospitality sector isn’t yet at pre-pandemic levels, it’s trending in the right direction, leading all sectors for growth in January. How’s staffing at your host...
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