Remember these healthy options, and it will fuel your delegates with energy for the day.
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Top five meeting pet peeves
Number 5 – meetings scheduled during lunch. Visit Corporate Meetings Network to find out more!
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Top five questions to ask when creating your meeting’s framework
There are five basic questions to ask yourself, the Five W’s of meeting planning. They will form the framework on which to build your meeting or event.
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Top five tips on picking the perfect unique venue
How do you spot the perfect unique venue for your meeting? Take this advice from the pros that know.
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IACC releases two educational videos for meeting professionals
Peter Stockmann, President of International Association of Conference Centres (IACC) Americas, announced the release of two video clips on content-rich topics related to the meeting experience. The videos, based on IACC’s third Thought Leader Summit and subsequent white paper Creating Compelling Meeting Experiences at IACC’s 30th annual conference, include two customer-related topics: Achieving Owner and Customer Satisfaction, and Eliminating Customer Sacrifice.
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Entering unchartered waters
As with so many other business sectors, Canada’s convention centres are looking forward with a sense of anticipation to the impacts that the current global economic crisis may bring in the coming months and years. This concern, coming as it does on the heels of some of the strongest performance years on record, will affect not only marketing but also performance measurement, operating efficiencies, business priorities and even the ways in which centres calculate and report the benefits they bring to their respective communities.
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Opinion: Economic challenges require a new meetings industry value proposition
While Canada fared relatively well in the face of the economic chaos that has shaken the international scene over the past few years, we’re not exempt from what’s going on elsewhere in the world. As a largely resource-based economy, we’re now hearing that we may actually be even more vulnerable to a second recession than many other countries, however sound such internal factors as our government and banking institutions may be.
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The Meeting Planner
For something that looks so easy, event planning is anything but. Every annual general meeting, wedding reception or book signing creates the possibility for a myriad of mishaps that no one wants to handle.
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National Travel & Tourism Coalition Calls on Government to Enhance Competitiveness
Canada will continue to lose its attractiveness as a tourist destination unless governments take immediate action to ease tax, regulatory and other burdens on the $71.5 billion industry, according to a new study by the National Travel and Tourism Coalition (NTTC).
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Independently Yours Contractors take the Stress out of Planning Meetings
When a group of hijackers crashed planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on September 11, it set off a devastating chain of events that would take years for the world economy to recover.
