Tired of the cancel, postpone, or pivot conversation? You are not alone! Recent CDC guidance has all things looking up for meeting planners and for the convention and meetings industry as whole. Not a moment too soon, of course. While there is light…
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As the organization that promotes and encourages meetings and visitation to our city, Experience Columbus also proudly promotes the characteristics of our city that make it worth visiting, one of the most valuable of which is our diversity and…
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COVID-19 didn't slow Columbus down While meetings and conventions took a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, Columbus didn’t stop working to ensure that when the time came to return to in-person meetings, planners and attendees had all the tools they…
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Each year, Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) brings together leaders from across the industry to highlight the impact meetings, conferences, conventions, incentive travel, trade shows and exhibitions have on people, businesses and the economy. This…
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This post is guest-written by Matt Lorz, media relations director for the Arnold Sports Festival. The Arnold Sports Festival is held annually in Columbus on the first weekend of March and welcomes more than 22,000 athletes from more than 80 nations…
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There’s no doubt about it, conference schedules are jam-packed. Between visits to the expo floor, breakout sessions, business meetings and keeping up with the workload back home, sometimes there isn’t time to go out and explore the host city and hunt…
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This post was written by Gabby Blauert, Marketing & Communications Coordinator at Pelotonia, a non-profit organization that raises money to accelerate cancer research. You can learn more about Pelotonia on its website . A lot goes into hosting a…
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Research shows that women in America make around 82 cents compared to every dollar earned by their male counterparts. 1 This is known as the gender wage gap. Columbus’ activation at PCMA’s 2020 Convening Leaders focused on inequities for women in the…
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According to the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol, 30% of American adults do not consume any alcohol. In January, this number often spikes as millennials have popularized “Dry January,” in which no alcohol is consumed during the month of…
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In 2014, Experience Columbus hired GfK, one of the world’s leading research companies, to help us learn more about what people thought about Columbus and identify strengths and opportunities for the city as a destination. What we learned was that at…
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