Articles tagged “meetingsiq”

As the meetings and events sector has grown, destinations have worked to bring their aging convention centers into the modern era. Australia and New Zealand have made major investments to improve their offerings and better capture demand from global organizations.

Australasia’s major convention centers are undergoing significant redevelopments. They’re getting bigger and better to cope with the growth of mega-meetings, delegates demanding experiences, and the need to save the planet.

Boom times for event planners have come along with a prolonged period of dysfunction in the sector. And more challenges are yet to come.

Incentive travel professionals are doing a better job of proving that their sometimes expensive trips have a positive impact on a business' bottom lines at the end of the day.

Boom times for the meeting and events sector are disrupting the status quo, putting pressure on planners to do more with less. We are entering a period of unprecedented change for the industry.

Bringing Social Tables into the fold could be big for Cvent. Their complicated platform desperately needs some streamlining, and Social Tables has been among the best providing web-based solutions for event planners.

Cvent is working methodically to expand its offerings in the small meeting space by acquiring Kapow and now Social Tables. Social Tables found success streamlining obvious pain points for planners, which is something Cvent can learn from.

New research from Cvent shows that group business is declining for U.S. hotels, and planners are booking room blocks closer to the date of their event than before. This is bad news for hotels, which rely on group bookings to boost business.

There's a glut of information out there about global destinations. Planners, though, really need strong partners to help them craft successful events when the pressure is on.

Destinations need to provide more services to event planners in an extremely competitive marketplace. Despite the proliferation of online destination information, nothing beats a strong relationship between planners and destinations to help ease the stress felt by event professionals.