CMP Conclave - Where Meetings and Events are Going - Dan Berger
1. 11/17/18
Where Meetings & Events Are Going:
Using Trends to Predict the Future
of Our Industry
Dan Berger
CEO, Social Tables
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Audience-Presenter Agreement
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4. We are connecting the hospitality
industry through group
management solutions
that create successful
face-to-face events.
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● Founded in Washington, D.C. in 2011
● Raised $22.6mm from top-tier venture capital firms
● Acquired by Cvent in October 2018
● 110 employees
● 60+ awards and recognitions
● 5,000+ customers
● 250,000 planners
About Social Tables
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Social Tables Supplier by the Numbers
4 billion
Square Feet
4 million
Events Planned
250k
Bookable Spaces
13,000
Unique Properties
7. A sales, marketing, and operations platform for GM&E.
We streamline operations and increase revenues.
Diagramming
Sales & Catering
Seating
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Learning Objectives
1. Identify three GM&E macro trends.
2. Understand the data behind what is driving these trends.
3. Understand the implications of these trends on industry
stakeholders.
10. OBSERVATION 1:
The value of face-to-face is
growing
We spend more time digitally; hotels are
making more money from group
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What does this mean for hotel owners?
● They will need to better understand our industry.
● They will invest more in their GM&E products.
● They will rely on a higher group mix to drive profits.
● They will raise the floor on group demand to maximize
compression.
15. OBSERVATION 2:
GM&E demand is growing
New type of events, more events, more
participants, and bigger budgets
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What does this mean for participants?
● They will have more choices in the market.
● They will be able to attend more events as prices go down.
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What does this mean for planners?
● Their events will face more competitive threats.
● They face higher participant expectations.
● They face higher client expectations.
● Their job complexity continues to increase.
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What does this mean for CVBs?
● CVBs will communicate destination benefits in terms of
total sleeping rooms (hotel + homesharing).
● CVBs will have sales targets that include both.
● CVBs will be funded by homesharing via taxes similar to
those of hotels.
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What does this mean for hotels?
● They will need to consider group when evaluating
distribution strategies.
● They now compete with virtually any place that can hold
an event.
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What does this mean for planners?
● They will have more venue options for their events.
● Their job doing sourcing will be even more complicated.
30. More meetings & events,
taking place in new
venues, that have bigger
budgets and more
participants who have
more lodging options.
31. ● Free diagramming for
planners
● Free floor plan search engine
at search.socialtables.com
● Free meeting planning app on
the App Store
Free tools for planners