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The October/November issue of EXHIBITOR Magazine is now LIVE and hitting your mailboxes! Not a subscriber? Get your first-year subscription FREE on our website here: https://lnkd.in/gdyg2asM

And here are the final winners of our 2024 Centers of Excellence Awards! We also are thrilled to announce a few special awards - all of which can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gFpuYDqV In photographic order: Miami Beach Convention Center The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Overland Park Convention Center Owensboro Convention Center Raleigh Convention Center Renasant Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Seattle Convention Center Walter E. Washington Convention Center Congratulations to all of the winners!

Continuing with our 2024 Centers of Excellence award winners, today we present you (in photographic order): Greater Tacoma Convention Center, Hawaii Convention Center , Huntington Place, Indiana Convention and Lucas Oil Stadium, Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center Dallas, Kentucky Exposition Center , Kentucky International Convention Center, and Los Angeles Convention Center. Read all about and see all of the winners here: https://lnkd.in/gDfFaTKm

All convention centers world-wide were eligible to apply for EXHIBITOR Magazine's 2025 Centers of Excellence competition. Applicants were evaluated using a variety of criteria in five primary categories: Facility & Functionality, Location & Accommodations, Service & Execution, Expansions & Upgrades, and Honors & Awards. The evaluation also included a survey of event planners, show organizers, and exhibit managers who have recently hosted (or exhibited at) trade shows and events within each facility, as well as a review of entrants' event spaces, primary selling points, nearby attractions, and innovations, conducted by a panel of corporate exhibit managers. The 25 highest-scoring entries have earned the distinction of being named among EXHIBITOR Magazine's Centers of Excellence. Today we feature the first eight of these award winners! In order of photographs: Anaheim Convention Center Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart Baird Center Baltimore Convention Center Charlotte Convention Center Colorado Convention Center Edmonton EXPO Centre Greater Columbus Convention Center To learn more about the award winners, please visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gDfFaTKm

Ready to save $800? Of course you are! Save Your Seat registration is now open for EXHIBITORLIVE, the Conference and Exhibition for Trade Show and Event Marketers, to be held March 16-20, 2025, in San Antonio, TX. Master the art of trade show and event marketing with top strategies for planning, managing, and measuring success. Register now and save $800 on your Premium pass, then you will be first in line select your sessions when full registration opens in November. Learn more and save here: https://lnkd.in/eSyJnc64

Please join us this Thursday, October 24 for Partnering for Trade Show Triumph with Jessica Sibila. Learning Objectives: • List the players in the exhibitions and events ecosystem. • Address the current most pressing concerns for exhibitors and possible solutions, such as: rising exhibiting costs, access to data and calculating ROI/ROO. • Influence the creation of exhibitor advisory councils. • Discuss current best practices and innovative models. • Identify things you can do to maximize success. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g5MewKgw

Senior Writer Charles Pappas, who we like to call the Indiana Jones of Event Marketing, has been traveling and sharing his adventures with us - he recently returned from his time in Paris and wanted to bring you along for the ride, since believe it or not, event marketing is all around us. Charles writes: Gauguin and Manet both used World Expos in Paris to launch themselves. But without a World Expo, there is no Monet at all. Up until the 1880s, the only water lily that could survive for any length of time in France was bland white. Then Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac began crossing-breeding the French ones with several from North America, resulting in lilies with a palette from yellow to red to fuchsia. The results were so astonishing, he displayed them next to the new Eiffel Tower at the 1889 World Expo. That's when Claude Monet wanders by the exhibit. The colors hit him like a lightning bolt. Once he finished building his pond in Giverny, Monet orders the water lilies from Latour-Marliac -when until the end of his life, he paints them in all their deep sensuous hues. (Photo #2 - credit to Wikimedia Commons) My favorite place to get a glimpse of this is L'Orangerie and Monet's paintings there of Nymphéas [Water Lilies), especially on a rainy day like today. You wonder at the beauty but you also wonder at the serendipity of walking by the right exhibit at the right time at the World's Fair. Visiting Barthelemy, the cheese shop where Catherine Deneuve shops. (And it's probably, with Laurent Dubois, the best cheese shop in Paris.) We asked for the strongest Roquefort possible, then headed to the Luxembourg Gardens for an impromptu lunch, passing through the filming of a movie or TV show outside the entrance gates. Why Roquefort? I love it of course but it really didn't become "Roquefort" until the Paris Expos, where it recreated the caves the cheese is aged in and became THE brand of blue cheese for the whole world. (Photos 3&4 - by Charles Pappas) Where will he head next? Will he stay in Paris? Stay tuned!

Entries are now open for our Corporate Event Awards and YOU could win! Corporate events launched between Dec. 1, 2022, and Dec. 1, 2024, are eligible to be nominated in multiple categories. For more information on how to submit, visit our website here: https://lnkd.in/g-dssgs

Exhibitor Group and The Experiential Designers and Producers Association (EDPA) have teamed up to launch a one-day certificate program called Trade Show Foundations: Mastering the Basics. This program's goal is to provide trade show vendors and suppliers who are new to the industry with basic information that will help them succeed in their career. Attendance is mandatory for all 3 sessions to receive a certificate. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/gUNwTji7 EDPA - Experiential Designers & Producers Association

Please join us on Thursday, October 17 as Anders Boulanger discusses how to: • Win over your booth staff to get more out of them • Cultivate and incentivize “booth hustle” culture • Deliver a unique learning experience that doesn’t get old • Use games as a game changer • Make your trainings unique and memorable with tips, tricks and techniques Register here: https://bit.ly/4h5bG0m