NATIONAL: Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the world's largest meeting and event industry association, has published its Summer 2022 Meetings Outlook, a future-focused quarterly report that identifies new trends and innovations. The publication allows planners to budget and plan accordingly and ensures a strong foundation for building sound strategies that keep businesses on paths to success. Key findings include that 81% of respondents predict favorable business conditions for the year ahead. Read the full report on MPI's website.
A Greener Festival—a not-for-profit company committed to helping events, festivals, and venues around the world adopt environmentally efficient practices—has launched "A Greener Supplier Certification" to provide green suppliers with independent and trusted verification and recognition of their sustainability actions. By gaining AGF certification, suppliers will be able to demonstrate independently verified green credentials to their customers. The new certification will help events, festivals, and tours alike identify verified green suppliers more easily, thus reducing the time and overhead of having to undertake their own internal supplier assessments.
ASPEN, COLO.: The Gant Aspen, a luxury resort at the base of Aspen Mountain, has announced the appointment of Chantaye Avery as its new director of reservations and revenue strategy. Prior to her role at The Gant Aspen, Chantaye worked as the regional director of revenue management for Hospitality Ventures Management Group in Atlanta. She also worked as a front office manager at McKinley Chalet in Denali National Park in Alaska.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.: Chattanooga’s municipal-owned utility, EPB, has launched what it describes as America's first community-wide 25-gig internet service to be available to all residential and commercial customers over a 100% fiber optic network with symmetrical upload and download speeds. Through a partnership with Hamilton County and the City of Chattanooga, the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Convention Center is EPB’s first 25-gig customer. The goal is to provide high bandwidth connectivity to thousands of smart devices and draw business conferences, e-gaming competitions, live streaming events, and more.
COLUMBUS, OHIO: The Wexner Center for the Arts, the multidisciplinary arts laboratory at The Ohio State University, has announced that Gaëtane Verna will be the center’s next executive director. Verna will assume the position at the Wex on Nov. 15. Previously, she serves as the director and artistic director at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto.
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