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Healthy Traveler Report - 4 Tips To Unlock The Power Of Mindful Healthcare Meetings

In the healthcare sector, meetings play a vital role in exchanging ideas, strategies, and knowledge-sharing among healthcare professionals and team members. With ever-increasing expectations from participants, it’s critical for meetings to be customized to meet their specific requirements. In this blog, we’ll talk about how mindfulness can address these needs and share some tips to put control in the hands of meeting planners. Mindfulness is the practice of being completely present and engaged in the moment with an open, positive mindset. Mindfulness can improve a conference participant's experience and information retention by boosting focus and decreasing tension and anxiety, whilst establishing stronger connections with fellow attendees and presenters. 
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07 Jun 2023
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How to save water at your events

Water is one of Earth’s most precious natural resources, and managing how we use it better is good for both people and the planet. 
 
Despite being used at events in many ways, from F&B to cleaning and sanitation, water usage can often be overlooked when it comes to event sustainability efforts. With the focus heavily on reducing the carbon impact of events (and quite rightly so), this is an area that deserves more attention.
 
But 2.2 billion people around the world still lack safely managed drinking water, according to the United Nations, which estimates that the demand for freshwater will exceed supply by 40% by 2030. Access to safe and clean drinking water is a basic human right, and event planners have an opportunity and a responsibility to manage it more mindfully. 
 
That might include checking your venue’s water conversation policies, rethinking menu choices to options that use less water when they are produced, and not prefilling water glasses or using ice buckets. 
 
Even small changes can make a big impact, and here are some of our top tips to get you started…
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04 Oct 2023
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Shining the spotlight on our meeting and events specialists

Events are all about people and working with the right people to deliver your meetings and events is vital to ensuring their success. That's why we are passionate about developing our people to become experts in the MICE sector. We invest in making sure our global meeting and events team gets the right training and experience to enable them to deliver truly memorable moments for our clients and their attendees.
 
To showcase the breadth of their expertise, we shine the spotlight on Daisy, Muriel and Priyanka, three of our M&E specialists across the globe, who share their passion for providing the highest levels of service, exceeding client's expectations, and staying on top of the latest trends.
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23 Mar 2023
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Sustainable Event Planning For Assistants

In today’s world, sustainability is more than just a trend; it’s a necessity. As businesses and organizations increasingly focus on their environmental impact, event planning has become a critical area for implementing sustainable practices. For assistants tasked with organizing events, it’s essential to integrate sustainability into every step of the planning process. Here’s what you should look out for when planning a sustainable event.  Blog by Helen Monument, Chair - World Administrators Alliance
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5 reasons to host your next event at London Heathrow

In the fast-paced world of business meetings and events, convenience is key and selecting the right location can make all the difference to the success of your event. While prime city center locations are always popular, don’t overlook the advantages of choosing an airport location. For example, instead of heading into central London, staying closer to London’s biggest airport, Heathrow, can offer event planners and their delegates a host of benefits. From unparalleled convenience to competitive rates and exceptional facilities, discover why your next meeting or event should be at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre London Heathrow.  Blog by Susie Harwood
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6 reasons to choose Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport for your next meeting

Located at the heart of Europe, Zurich is renowned as a leader in the financial, life sciences and ICT sectors and an important economic, cultural and social center of Switzerland, making it the ideal location for hosting business meetings and events. And with Switzerland's largest convention and congress hotel located just minutes from the terminal, your attendees don’t even need to leave the airport. In addition to convenience and ease of access for both planners and attendees, there are many advantages to hosting events at an airport hotel, including saving vital time and costs, since it removes the need to hire transportation or take public transport to downtown hotels. Instead of spending unproductive hours on transfers, your attendees can maximize their time spent on productive activities, ensuring you meet your event objectives. We share six reasons why Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport should be the number one choice for your next airport hotel gathering…  Blog by Susie Harwood
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Signature move: Introducing Radisson Meeting’s new online contracting tool for planners

For event organizers tasked with managing multiple meeting and event bookings simultaneously across numerous venues and locations, anything that helps to streamline and speed up the planning process – especially the tedious jobs – can be a game changer.  Digital savvy planners are increasingly embracing new technologies to improve workflow efficiencies, and choosing to work with venues and partners that are ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest developments. Contract management can be one of those time consuming and tedious tasks, but it’s a necessary part of the meetings and event planning process, especially in a post-pandemic world when negotiating flexible but fair terms and conditions is more important than ever for both client and venue.  That's why Radisson Meetings is launching the online proposal with e-signature capabilities from the Swedish company Oneflow to help make contracting easier for all.  The online proposals of Oneflow are already in use by 75 hotels and will be rolled out across Radisson Hotel Group’s global portfolio and made available to clients booking groups, meetings and events at our properties.xcx
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Top 3 sustainable cities for meetings and events

Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important consideration for meeting and event organizers. While not yet the main decision-driver, it now plays a key role in destination choice (with 13% ranking it among their top two influential factors), according to the 2024 Global Meetings & Events Forecast by AMEX GBT Meetings & Events.Opting for destinations with strong sustainable credentials allows event planners to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, enhancing their reputation among clients and employees who value ethical business practices.But how can you be sure that the destinations you choose are truly committed to sustainability? A great place to start is the GDS-Index, which offers a robust framework for evaluating the sustainability performance of destinations, providing valuable insights to guide your decision-making process.  Blog by Susie Harwood
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Inspire Curiosity & Creativity: Infinity Room Experience

Today's event planners are tasked with pushing the boundaries of innovation, all while navigating a sea of constraints. Yet, by applying findings from the science of creativity, it's possible to transform these restrictions into opportunities for creative problem solving. Indeed, those familiar with the latest research are flipping traditional meeting spaces on their head by designing immersive experiences that turn down sensory input so that participants can tune-in to their internal world of ideas.Memorable meeting planning is all about attention to detail. And, by placing a particular emphasis on sensory experiences such as lighting and sound, we can subtly encourage participants to delve deeper. While we often see and hear what we expect to see and hear, given the opportunity to hone in on one sensory element at a time, we can break free of mental constraints that limit our thinking.
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