Open Forum

Happy Monday to all of you! We are back to share our Huddle of the Week post!

The events industry is always changing and it is important to stay up to date and current. Cvent wants to share their knowledge and answer your questions about the latest trends and insights on maximizing your trade show programs, how to prove and improve value of your event program, and tips on how to hold successful sales kick-offs and reach your sustainability goals.

Question for you:

• What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights?

Want to learn more and hear your questions answered live? Register for the upcoming webinar taking place on November 10th – Ask Cvent Anything: Event Challenges in 2022 and Beyond- today!

We are excited to see the questions you have!

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Megan Clark
Assistant Team Lead, Online Community Marketing
Cvent
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no questions right now, but if i think of one I will let you know.

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Morgan Corpus
Senior Sales Manager
The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel, ATX United States
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Hi Megan,

• What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights?

It seems like event registrations and travel plans have been trending to be booked extremely last minute since the pandemic. Do you see this trend and do you think it is here to stay?

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Katie Dreifus
Registration Manager
PwC Management Services LPUnited States
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I would really love to see Cvent give customers the ability to clean our databases. One item in particular is old Users that we would like to delete, but have been told we cannot because they are tied to past events. Could Cvent give us the ability to delete the users, and change the name in the events it's tied to to "Deleted User", which is what HubSpot does, or have it revert to the current Cvent administrator instead? The longer we use Cvent, the longer the User list is becoming.

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Lori Wildman
Director of Marketing
DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc.United States
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Question for you:

• What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights?
  • What trends are you seeing with the bounce back of booking windows. Currently groups and meetings are booking sooo last minute. 

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Teresa James
Director of Sales and Marketing
DoubleTree Gainesville
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Flight delays and issues seem to be aplenty lately and there's still several routes that haven't returned. Something on the popularity of travel destinations.

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Rachel
NJ
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What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights?
No questions yet.

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Jonathan stanaj
Events Manager
United Federation of TeachersUnited States
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What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights?
While we are technically out of the pandemic, COVID and infectious diseases are still running rampant - this will likely continue for the foreseeable future. Are modified health and safety protocols here to stay, and is this still something that planners and venues are taking into consideration when planning events?

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Bouran Qaddumi
Sr. Manager, Training
Church's Chicken
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I'm having trouble with searching for venues that have covid safety practices, I've posted this in the idea area, I hope you can support it!
https://community.cvent.com/ideas

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Cynthia O'Young
Events Manager
Benchmark MediaAustralia
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-09-2022 09:40
From: Bouran Qaddumi
Subject: Event Challenges in 2022 and Beyond

What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights?
While we are technically out of the pandemic, COVID and infectious diseases are still running rampant - this will likely continue for the foreseeable future. Are modified health and safety protocols here to stay, and is this still something that planners and venues are taking into consideration when planning events?

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Bouran Qaddumi
Sr. Manager, Training
Church's Chicken
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• What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights? Currently planning is so last minute and availability is limited. What are planners willing to be flexible with in order to place meetings. 

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Colleen Beck
Director of Sales & Marketing
The Westin Tampa Bay
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I'm in agreement with other comments - we are getting lower or last minute attendance for our return to in person events. This is somewhat due the nature of our events typically being held after work (social events) and people aren't working in offices. I imagine this is a trend as well for last minute travel, as people are becoming more use to a more free schedule.

I also agree with being able to "clean up" Cvent, old users, an easy way to clean contacts and remove old registration types etc.

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Beth Vriesen
Events Registration Admin
Associated Bank Corporation
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What questions do you have concerning the latest trends and insights?

• I agree with the old users that should be cleaned up, and with the bookings made at the last minute. What about that?

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Cassandre Therrien
Technology Coordinator - Groups, Meetings and Events
Les Voyages Laurier Du Vallon
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I am finding it hard work to search for venues that excel at COVID safety - I hope that you are able to add my idea to the roadmap to help me prevent our events from being super spreader ones!

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Cynthia O'Young
Events Manager
Benchmark MediaAustralia
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I am hoping that we get back to "normal" in terms of an appropriate work back schedule (booking more in advance and giving more time).

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Olivia Popofski
Marketing Coordinator
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and AffiliatesCanada
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It seems that everything is really last minute at this time. Having more of a lead time to book and plan a meeting would be great. Additionally, the higher costs for sleeping rooms, F&B, A/V, travel are impacting budgets and reducing the size of meetings overall. 

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Erika Noyes, CMP, CGMP
Meeting Manager

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