Not too surprisingly, meeting pop ups, culinary creativity, team-building, and social media are all having an impact on 2016 meeting trends.
Conrad Chicago focuses on tech to attract meeting and event planners
Conrad Chicago will use 3D custom imaging software from Social Tables to enable meeting and event planners to see an instantaneous 3D rendering of their event space, replete with décor, table arrangements and Chicago skyline views.
Marriott launches European Convention Network
With a collection of 14 convention hotels and one dedicated contact person, the ECN aims to provide a streamlined service for all meeting planners organizing regular annual or bi-annual meetings and events in Europe.
Top meeting package trends for 2016
Trends point to useful ways meeting planners and meeting venues can contribute towards better meetings and conference experiences.
5 trends shaping the future of meetings
Meetings due for disruption as our focus on collaboration, wellness, and personalized technology more strongly influences daily living, work and the way people interact.
IHG launches a range of bespoke services for business clients
IHG Assist addresses the increasing concern for traveller safety and security, and IHG Meeting Point helps to offer the right meeting space at the right hotel, with an high level of service and sector-specific expertise.
Marriott enhancement on Meeting Services app simplifies billing
Designed based on meeting planner feedback, the billing enhancement gives planners the ability to customize their billing and respond to charges instantly and discretely through the app.
Marriott launches website to help meeting planners get creative
Similar to Pinterest, Marriott’s Meetings Imagined is a site where users can gather inspirational images to spark creativity and set out the objective of their meeting.
Meliá partners with UNICEO to enhance visibility in MICE segment
Meliá will now begin to actively cooperate in UNICEO projects which aim to promote the exchange of professional experiences and know-how among members and will also become a global sponsor and provide support for the activities of the non-profit association based in Geneva.
Study looks at generational differences between meeting planners’ sourcing behaviours
Millennials value the venue’s cost as most influential, while members of older generations value the venue’s customer service department when sourcing their next meeting location.
