Tag: Encore
Radical Inclusion: How to Make Events Feel Welcome to All
Radical inclusion sounds, well, radical, but it’s really just about using common sense to avoid problems that can make attendees feel unwelcome, disengaged and excluded.
Survey: Meetings Activity Hits Post-Pandemic High
A new Planner Pulse survey from Encore finds booking and sourcing new events at a post-pandemic high. However, it also found that lead times and cost increases continue to be a challenge.
Vaccination Requirements Recede as Omicron Continues to Rise
Event vaccination requirements are on the wane even as the Omicron variant continues to rise.
Meeting Industry Mergers
There will no doubt be new mergers and acquisitions on the horizon as a result of the pandemic. Here are a few recent important meeting industry ones.
Hotels Offer COVID Testing
This trend of hotels offering testing has its roots in high-end individual travel and isolated resort destinations such as the Maldives—essentially creating "bubble resorts."
Virus Shuts Las Vegas Resorts
MGM and Wynn resorts in Las Vegas are temporarily shutting down operations amid concerns about the coronavirus (COVID-19).