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Business events reopening: what you need to know
The return date of 1 October is conditional on the rate of infection staying at a manageable level
10 Sodexo sports venues joins Meetings Industry Association
The venues have joined to secure AIM accreditation
Meetings Industry Association launches new members’ portal
The platform, which is the latest advancement in the mia’s online provision and can be accessed through the trade association’s website
MIA reports 10% rise in DDR
Despite the ongoing economic uncertainty and a slowdown in the rate of GDP growth, the average DDR among MIA members rose by 2% in 2018 to £43.48
The MIA Connect Taskforce gets the Inntel touch
Callie Richards, Intel's supplier partnership manager, is the Taskforce's latest member
Universi-tea: Oxford celebrates mia membership with tea party
Conference Oxford has also secured AIM accreditation
mia sales training hits a high note
The Meetings Industry Association (mia) held its high-impact Connect Sales HIIT training event recently, attracting 85 business development managers, sales managers and directors representing a wide range of venues, hotels and directories.
New star rating standard launches for venues
International meetings industry speaker Paul Bridle is one of the founders of a new venue rating system, The Venue Standard.
The new system is designed, say its backers, to provide buyers with a clear indication of the quality of both product and service offered by any given venue using the 1-5 star rating system that has become the standard in the hotel industry.
The system’s founders claim it is the “first global assessment, ensuring fair comparison of venues by event buyers researching and planning events in a wide variety of different locations around the world”.
The Venue Standard is the
