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Coming Clean

9/2/2020 8:03:00 AM|

Someday, we’ll be able to look back on the pandemic with 2020 hindsight. Until then, meeting planners, convention centers, and hotel sales and marketing teams are looking to establish a baseline for the “new normal,” the standards by which meetings and incentives can go forward safely.

OCCC Hosts the Together Again Expo

9/1/2020 9:40:00 AM|

The Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, FL., hosted the Together Again Expo on July 24 in collaboration with Alliance Nationwide Exposition, a trade show contractor for managing hotel-based events.

Meetings Are Still Happening Around the Country. Here’s What They Look Like.

8/31/2020 12:26:00 PM|

Several large, high-profile conferences—as well as smaller meetings and events—have taken place recently with intense safety measures in place.

How Event Planners Are Successfully Holding In-Person Meetings Right Now

8/14/2020 8:10:00 AM|

Large, in-person events are starting to come back, with groups of more than 1,000 people gathering in Florida and Indiana.

Destination Spotlight | Orlando

8/12/2020 9:27:00 AM|

Recently, Orlando announced a wide-ranging new medical concierge program for meeting and convention groups. The program, a collaboration between the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), Visit Orlando and Orlando Health, a local health care system, is aimed at reassuring those who organize and attend conventions in the city.

Together Again Expo: Industry’s Coming-Out Party Was Resounding Success

8/5/2020 8:42:00 AM|

The Orange County Convention Center welcomed its first trade show under modified operations on July 24. The Together Again Expo, hosted in collaboration with Alliance Nationwide Exposition, offered a hybrid solution to connect and reunite more than 1,400 live industry professionals and 8,225 virtual attendees as they gathered to join the conversation and learn how to navigate the safe future of live events.

Greater Orlando Gets Back to Business

8/4/2020 4:49:00 PM|

With bated breath and fingers crossed, Orlando and nearby Kissimmee have taken the first baby steps across the meetings threshold again. Last month, the region reopened—albeit in carefully measured steps—to the meetings market.

Orange County Convention Center Hosts First Trade Show Since Pandemic

8/3/2020 4:36:00 PM|

The Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), the second-largest in the United States, has welcomed back its first trade show since COVID-19 hit.

DOORS BEGIN TO OPEN AT CONVENTION CENTERS

7/31/2020 8:17:00 AM|

Some convention centers are showing signs of life as events return amid the coronavirus pandemic, although most are small-scale gatherings.

Case Study: How AAU Hosted an Indoor Tournament for 10,000 People

7/30/2020 8:49:00 AM|

In a typical year, the AAU Junior National Volleyball Championships will attract more than 45,000 athletes to two of the largest venues in Orlando, Florida — the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and the Orange County Convention Center — making it one of the largest youth sports events in the country. But 2020 is no typical year.

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