In This Issue
June 2019
In Smart Meetings' June issue, we announce the annual Smart Stars winners! You voted and the results are in. These properties and organizations are star-studded partners with event professionals.
This issue is packed with lots of information: how to save budgets with spending less and maintaining quality, dreamy convention centers that deliver and so much more. We also take a look at some stellar destinations like Mexico's Pacific Coast, redefining meetings in the Mid-Atlantic, leaving your heart in greater San Francisco and more.
Smart Meetings is an event planning publication covering meetings, industry news, including expert opinions and interviews, topical articles, coverage of destinations and venues in the U.S and worldwide, and features stories on incentive, corporate, government and association meetings.
Features
July 2, 2019
Destination GalleriesIf You Can Dream It, These Venues Can Deliver It
For many meeting planners, the term “convention center” may conjure images of vast, warehouse-like spaces that stress function over form and size over service. But those assumptions may need updating.
July 2, 2019
SourcingSet Your Clock to Island Time
As you’re looking ahead to plan meetings for next winter, maybe it’s island time—you know, time for a change of pace and short-sleeve weather that signals a break in routine…
June 21, 2019
Brilliant ExperiencesHow Leo Events Nails Immersion
When challenged to create a storybook that would help Walmart CEO Doug McMillon illuminate the company’s history in a “magical way” at its Shareholders Meeting in 2017, Leo Events got…
June 11, 2019
Industry NewsSplit Personalities: A New Way to Hotel
Why you will learn to love multiple hotel brands under the same roof. Triple-branded properties have become increasingly common, trendy and cool.
October 17, 2019
Contracts & NegotiationsDon’t Blow Up the Budget: How to Spend Less for More
Smart Meetings asked experts about their tricks for creating a phenomenal experience while spending a minimal amount of money.
May 5, 2020
Industry AwardsSmart Stars 2019: Meet Our Readers’ Choice Winners
The dictionary definition of "best" as an adjective is: "of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality." See also: greatest, foremost, leading, preeminent, premier, prime, supreme, unsurpassed, peerless,…
In Every Issue
June 28, 2019
TrendsQ&A with Jerry Cito on NYC Resources
Smart Meetings sat down with Jerry Cito from New York & Company to dive into what New York City has been tackling lately to switch things up for groups.
June 27, 2019
TrendsGet Inspired By These Pops of Color
Set the stage appropriately with these on-trend color ideas from Creative Coverings Director of Design Nancy Stoltz.
June 25, 2019
Brilliant ExperiencesCase Study: Hack This Cracker with IncuBaker
Sometimes, you don’t know something is broken until you fix it. Smart Meetings sat down with American Bakers Association Education Manager Pippa O’Shea and Senior Director of Meetings and Education…
June 25, 2019
Food and BeverageThe Latest Sandwich Trend? Hyper-Local in Hand
Today, although sandwiches are beloved everywhere, some of the very best offer a sense of place you can hold onto.
June 21, 2019
StrategyCultural Competency 101
According to Seema Jain, director of multicultural affairs for Marriott International, “cultural competence—the ability to view a situation from your perspective and the perspective of others—is a business imperative that…
June 21, 2019
Health and WellnessCan Cruise Ships Be Eco-Friendly?
Welcome aboard the S.S. Conundrum. Groups are clamoring for authentic experiences, and what could be a more splashy departure from your standard hotel ballroom than a meeting at sea? Yet…
June 3, 2019
Smart StyleYour June Smart Style Has Arrived
This month, we’re honing in on the sweet start of summer with products and tools that will serve you and attendees poolside and office-side all season long.
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