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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

5 min to read

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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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How to navigate creative obstacles in event design

The meeting industry has been reborn post-pandemic, with companies once again placing a high value on gatherings that bring employees and stakeholders together in-person. With a strong desire to break from a business-as-usual-mindset, companies are not only reevaluating the cost and efficiency of their meetings, they’re also demanding more bespoke, holistic experiences that will supercharge their workforce in order to drive innovation at every level. This is both a tall order and a big opportunity for meeting planners, who are no doubt keen to bring their most creative ideas to life. However, this increasing pressure comes on top of the multiple hats planners already wear, as they turn on a dime to act as business strategists, travel agents, tour guides, facilitators, tech support, and more. Now more than ever, it’s essential that meeting planners tap into the kind of big picture, creative thinking that will set their meetings apart as memorable, out-of-the-box experiences that generate the real results their clients are seeking.

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Empowering Event Planning Through Emotional Intelligence

The most memorable events result from a combination of small details, genuine human connections, surprising and delightful experiences, and the kind of thoughtful planning that allows participants to navigate busy conference schedules with ease. Experiences flow from one to the next so seamlessly that attendees feel they are being taken care of and considered, freeing them to focus on doing their best work. Indeed, with quarterly targets, long term goals and travel and event costs to take into account, companies' have high expectations of employees attending conferences. Even the most energetic participants find the demands of these events grueling when faced with air travel, sprint-like schedules and little downtime.

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How to personalize event experiences with AI

As we move into the second quarter of 2024, the latest innovations in AI and their impacts on work as we know it are top of mind for professionals. While some shrewd meeting planners are already taking advantage of the AI revolution to supercharge their events, others may feel skeptical of yet another new, “it” technology, or are simply overwhelmed by the prospect of integrating new tools into their well-oiled strategies. Who can forget the race to embrace content tracks on blockchain and the metaverse one year, only to find these subjects dated the next? What makes AI different is its real, practical usefulness for planners before, during, and after events. Combined with human ingenuity, integrating AI into every stage of a gathering has the power to optimize the experience of organizers and attendees, with tangible applications that range from reducing admin to generating a real time attendee feedback.

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