Meeting Planner Resources

Meeting Planner Resources

Kemp Gallineau, Groups 360, intermediaries, data, RFP process

How Groups 360 Uses Data to Streamline the RFP Process

Prevue spoke with Kemp Gallineau, CEO of Groups 360, about how data can help both planners and suppliers in bringing more transparency to the sales process.
LGBT Meeting Professionals Association, Jim Clapes, LGBT, diversity, Expect Diversity,

How LGBTMPA is Helping to Improve Inclusivity & Diversity at Meetings

LGBT Meeting Professionals Association (LGBTMPA) is moving forward with its goal to increase the success of inclusion and diversity in meetings and events.
high-tech team building, technology, Wildly Different, scavenger hunts, robots, TeamWorx Team Building Inc., The Go Game

High-tech Team Building Does More Than Break the Ice

Here are three ways meeting planners can do more than break the ice by incorporating high-tech team building into future events.
career advice, meetings

Need Career Advice? We Asked Prevue’s Advisory Board For Some

The following career advice from our 2018 Editorial Advisory Board members will get you thinking.

How to Engage Millennials With Event Education

When it comes to professional growth, research shows that 80 percent of millennials feel there is no replacement for coming together.
language, language barriers, Inspiration Hub, TED Talk, Hidden Brain, multilingual

How Language Can Create Different Perceptions Among Attendees

Did you ever stop to think about how different languages create different perceptions or cultural biases at meetings?
VR, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, Flip the Script, Dianne Devitt, sensory experiences

How to Avoid Getting an “F” Using AI

The same principles used to create live events should be applied for virtual planners whose responsibility is to plan the AI and virtual reality (VR) aspects of meetings.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chattanooga Convention & Visitors Bureau, SMERF, SMERF meetings

What’s Trending in the SMERF Market

SMERF meetings often get overlooked, but for destinations like Chattanooga, Tenn., they can mean big business.
HubSpot Meetings, Boomerang, email productivity, email tools, email productivity tools

4 Email Productivity Tools that Save Planners Time

There are tons of tools out today that can help you manage and automate a lot of the repetitive email tasks you may have gotten used to—and many of them are free.
meeting, outsourcing

4 Meeting Planning Outsourcing Partners

Some outsourcing partners are brought on to assist internal meeting planners on a single project. Others can be a permanent extension of the staff.
MGM Grand, meeting

Meet Well Summit Attendees Share Wellness Strategies

Meet Well Attendees wore exercise clothes for the meeting day, and donned slippers given out by the hotel. During lunch, the MGM Grand's chefs shared the philosophies and practices behind the special Stay Well menu. A whiteboard listed ideas for integrating wellness into meetings and everyone left signing a pledge to plan healthier meetings.
Millennial attendees

Here’s How Your Millennial Attendees Like to Travel

58 percent of Millennials post more often on social media when traveling than at home with the goal of sharing their adventures with friends and family.

Q&A: Elevating the Human Component of Meetings & Events

We interviewed Cosimo Bruzzese, VP of business development for Briggs, Inc. to see how they are enhancing the human component of meetings and events.
Hyatt, meetings

4 Benefits of Doing a Hotel Buyout

For a fully customized and personalized event experience, consider buying out the hotel.