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Statistics re: the use of tech in events and its importance/future

This article discusses the importance of implementing software management systems into your event business. It allows for a more smoothly operated and efficient business. The 6 benefits that come with having a software management system are: improving engagement, automation, snapshotting, professionalism, highly targeted market, holistic solution.

Events and event planners can use wearable technology like smart watches to maximize the experience of the attendees as well as gather data. One use for wearable technology at events would be secure transactions. This would allow guests to update their payment credentials and use their band for easy payment. Hilton used a wearable device at their Hilton America' Leadership Conference and saw great success.

Virtua Hospitality launched UgoVirtual, an online platform which allows event organizer to virtualize many events. Registered attendees can access events via several devices and participate in many activities. As mentioned by Mike Blake, Virtual events is said to be the future of the industry.

This article is about migration, tips for companies when transitioning from the old to the new event management software. It talks about the steps that companies should take in all stages of migration. It shows what to consider when thinking about an upgrade for a better system. It guides event planners in the migration process since the beginning, step by step. This article gives tips and guidance helping to identify the perfect software for your company when the company is ready for changing to a better event management system. This article is very helpful!

This article focuses on attendees using a modern day technology- mobile phones, tables and laptops at events and how event planners should engage more in incorporating them in to events and NiceMeeting, has done just that for event coordinators. NiceMeeting has introduced a presentation tool developed to enhance event engagements and maximize the value of knowledge exchange through live events.  Some cool features NiceMeeting also offers even planners is an AV application that turns attendees mobile device, such as iPad, iPhone, Tablet, laptop into a full-featured personal conference display.  

This article suggests that the use of handheld technology, such as mobile phones, tablets, and laptops at events has become so widespread, that event planners need to incorporate them into daily use if they want an edge on business. Nicemeeting is just one of many new hospitality applications that enhances the event managing process for event planners. According to the article, it has the capability to turn technology, such as an Ipad or mobile device, into "a full-featured personal conference display." It creates an entirely interactive space. I think that this idea was brilliant, because regardless of whether people like it or not, cell phones are going to be present in the meeting space. This application makes the most of that occurrence and turns it into a positive thing.

At a recent even at NYC, the CEO of Hilton, Christopher Nassetta, announced that the Hilton team is developing meeting focused hotels as a means to get the upper hand on event management. These hotels are being built with events such as conventions and business meetings in mind while constructing a five-star property. Thus, a new brand, Signia, was created as a means to improve upon flexibility in its architecture, as well as more daylight, modern design, and more spacious volume, as well as an upgraded culinary experience, and technologies that help run meetings more efficiently, likely updates in their event management system. This premium quality is something that has been constantly asked by them from customers. In the future they are planning to stretch out internationally.

This paper used a random sanmplpe of 6 managers, 32 employees, and 38 clients of two hotel in Accra, Ghana. The goal of this paper to examine the role played by the hospitality industry in the organisation of events for clients. As most literature on even tourism is saturated with repeat data on the importance of mega events and their socioeconomic impact on destinations, this paper focuses more on the organisation of these events. For this location the study revealed that whilst religious and socialization activities dominated hotel events, only a small percentage of events organised covered corporate conferences, meetings, and workshops. Though clients have shown a mostly unanimous satisfaction with these meetings, managers feel that they have not received proper training in event planning and management. The managers have made an effort to voice their concerns, given the increase in the number of international tourists to Ghana, along with an increase in the number of hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality facilities. It has been observed that in developing countries, events pay a more significant role for individuals and the community. For final findings, it can be concluded that managers faced challenges such as ineffective communication and misunderstanding of expectations. Managers felt that they lacked certain basic expectations about events, and finally that the general pubic has certain expectations for these events that were at times not met. Hospitality facilities must be well-trained and be properly supervised during he course of these events

The Passkey's GroupMAX ME is a big progress during the housing management service area. It major effect is promoting the efficiency of management in meeting, convention or event. It makes the meeting management become more professional. LA Tourism managers can organize the conventions and meetings that were more safe, consistent and portable by using GroupMAX ME on their hand. The technology could make participants easily and efficiently find hotel reservations in office. And meeting professionals could be easy to track inventory online. GroupMAX ME could help meeting professionals to avoid an excess of reservation fee because it could directly connect hotel property management system or central reservation system.

Google made several announcements at a developer conference that could bring drastic changes to event technology, both in the immediate future and further down the line. One of Google's latest gadgets is Google Glass. There has been much talk about both it's functionality and its detractors. However, it is highly functional for events. It allows you to scan tickets upon entry and it also allows you the ability to send a live feed of the event. This is advantageous for those who want to go to events but are not able to attend in person, for whatever reason and is ideal for Google Plus hangout integration. Google also announced that Youtube Live (live streaming on Youtube) would be available to all partners in good standing. Before, live-streaming on Youtube was only available to certain partners. So Glass now has greater potential to be used by more partners to live stream to Youtube. Lastly, Google planted sensors all around the convention center where the conference took place, and collected data (temperature, humidity, light, pressure (including nearby footfalls), motion, air quality and both RF and ambient noise) to study the crowd and how they moved around the conference. Crowd management and control is a delicate issue and this technology could give real time data into what the crowd is doing.

This brief article highlights 5 major points of the advantages of taking event registration online since there is still a lot of conern with doing so. First and foremost, peoeple love things being easy and hassle free, and with the inevdible techonolgy that is always around, it is jsut that easy. On top of that, confimation emails will be sent out within 24 hours, usually right after booking, to ease peoples minds that they are in. They get to plan out their event and get orginized in their minds and in real life. A big worry is how secure is this? It is benificial to do your reseach on where you are booking to ensure they are legit and have precautions to make information is safe. Additonally, real time reports allows for the event to understand who is going, deomgrphics, and the amount of people going. Lastly, a growing trend is going green, by doing this they can say they are a green event, if they take other measures, for eliminating paper applications.

Today, new technology solutions such as mobile conference apps are on the top of mind of every event planner. With so many new tools on the market and questions regarding their use for a successful event, event technology has become the perfect conversation starter. A mobile event app is a downloadable phone application or a mobile web application that is easily accessible from any smartphone browser. In addition to all of the benefits to the hotelier, what if you could tell your potential clients that you had the tools to facilitate their on-site communication, enhance attendee networking, reduce their printing costs, provide a new sponsorship platform and make the overall digital experience for attendees outstanding. From the event planners point of view the technology is built into the hotel and someone has already done their research. It gives them an opportunity to experiment how audience response with smartphones work or how they can send conference updates and alerts to delegates faster and easier with mobile event apps.

This article is all about the convenience and benefits technology brings to event planning. This article states, "In the case of custom mobile conference apps such as EventMobi, this helps attendees manage the event schedule easier, enhance networking opportunities, interact with the event using audience response and navigate their way around the event and property right from their smartphones." Not only does this application provide simplicity, it also generates new opportunities for event planners. Basically, there are only benefits to investing and adopting new hospitality applications. The article describes how the investment will pay off with increased revenue.

This article goes into great detail about how technology is growing within the hotel and tourism industry. The VP of American Express Meeting and Events states that new technologies are providing event planners with much more opportunities to increase participant engagement, obtain feedback and get more connected. The article also dives into the fact that event planners notice that new technology may be a distraction to people who are not accustomed to it. A fun fact I found about this article that event mobile applications can be customized to range up to thousands of dollars to develop and maintain. It seems that meeting applications are working well with larger events as opposed to smaller sized meetings.

today i want to introduce the event2mobile. it is an industry-leading platform that allows event managers to give attendees a clear understanding, acquire the events information and participate the events through their mobile devices. event2mobile is used by global media groups as well as private events of Fortune 2000 companies across APAC, Europe and North America. people can install this app in their mobile phone. they can create a account and update your personal information in the app. you can invite other friends in this app like facebook. also you can comment the events and give some advises through the app. moreover this app can support the events survey after you attend the events and you can evaluate the events. also, the app provide the location of events and events details. finally, this app can make the guests enter the events more easily.

This article talks about the capabilities of a PMS in the coming generation since being implemented thirty years ago. Tina Stehle that PMS will no longer be about seamless communication and integrated services. PMS will be used to 'capture all guest events, information, systems will be able to predict patterns such as spending and preferences as well as evolve the property's loyalty programs and VIP management.' Advancements in Hospitality today are exhibiting these qualities already. For instance, The Intelligent Room, which keeps track of a guest's uses and preferences. Once every business in the hospitality industry gets linked into this all inclusive, ease of access PMS, there will truly be a seamless integration that makes a guest's travel and accommodations easy and incredibly comfortable. However, Stehle says that 'the web will continue to be a major influence' on the changes made to the way PMS works and what it is able to do. The emergence of Cloud-Based PMS proves her point. The issue here is that what if the internet crashes? This question should be addressed now, rather than business relishing the cut in costs, the advancements with the web brings. 

This article uses diagrams and gives the step to let us know the processing of managing the risk. Also, it teaches a four-step process- Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery to address a crisis successfully.

InteSolv, a provider for high-impact technology consulting strategies and customized business solutions, announced their new custom Web Event Management service for existing PGi Adobe Connect customers. Customers are able to choose from a variety of services to best fit their needs: event planning, seminar room set-up, audio provisioning, presenter training and coaching, campaign reporting, etc. In order to maximize conversion, the InteSolv solution allows customers to customize their message while InteSolv manages the administrative/technical traits. 

This article is about two schools that used Event Manager Software to help them get and stay organized. From knowing what areas/classes were clean and ready for use to knowing where certain groups were going to be located on campus for events. They were able to apply the same issues with organizing large groups for events to organizing the daily needs of the school.

This article is to emphasize the importance of point of sales system, including the advantages that help restaurant operating business every. For instance, counting is the simplest approach to checking your inventory on the shelves in a small business and this is called stocktaking, especially, for small businesses, like a small toyshop, stocktaking is a thoroughly practical approach. However, most of the time stock management is not that simple, and sometimes the practical option is not the best option. There can be discrepancies between the physical and the stock records, especially when it concerns annual stock management. This is why it is advisable for every business owner to use computerized POS systems in stock management. The best thing about having a computerized POS System in the retail business is: as new stocks arrives and as it is sold, it keeps the stock levels current and updated, hence making it is easier to identify which items are selling and which items are not. A POS System is also good in checking for any obsolete or out of date stock that needs to be disposed. For the managers, if they are still counting the inventory manually on the shelves or in the warehouse, something should be thought twice about the lacking of efficiency method, for there are many advantages in using a POS System mentioned in this article. One advantage of a POS System is its ability to help the business achieve detailed real-time stock level information. In addition, a POS System can also give some information such as weather forecasts, public holidays and major sporting events, which can be of great help in determining the stock level of seasonal products. Managers can now efficiently and effectively handle their stock management accurately.