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Reading Time: 3 minutesHospitality industry professionals joined together at the Cvent CONNECT 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in mid-April. Conference attendees included event professionals, marketers, business partners and hospitality. The conference gave attendees an opportunity to network with peers, discuss event planning best practices, discover planning technology, learn tips for managing event recovery volumes, attend thought leadership […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a world where year-over-year metrics are no longer relevant, how should our industry measure success? As the hospitality industry sector continues to progress on its slow path to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, traditional metrics that once guided strategic planning and progress measurement are, at least temporarily, rendered rather useless. For the vast majority […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn-person events, specifically industry conferences, are slowly returning during the last quarter of 2021, more than a year after COVID-19 first disrupted travel and meetings across the globe. Onyx’s Jim Casale, VP, Product, Global Payments, and Dee Thomas, Product Director, Emerging Payments, attended HEDNA’s 2021 Global Distribution Conference from October 11-12 in Miami, FL. HEDNA’s […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesAfter over a year of the industry hosting exclusively virtual events, travel companies were finally able to meet again in person when Cvent hosted its CONNECT Conference in Las Vegas in early August 2021. The conference gave attendees an opportunity to network with other hospitality professionals to discuss event planning best practices, planning technology, and […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs a hospitality professional, your day-to-day is likely spent juggling a multitude of tasks in order to keep operations running smoothly. Add on the layer of COVID-19 safety precautions and recovery planning and it’s easy for things to pile up pretty quickly. While these functions can take up a significant amount of time, it’s still […]