Tag: canadian special events

Spread Love : Azuridge Estate Hotel’s Luxury Wedding Contest

Wow, it’s impressive to see how the Azuridge Estate team combined innovative experiential marketing with community outreach through the ‘Spread Love’ initiative. Congrats to the Azuridge Estate team for combining innovation, community…

OneWest Event’s Experiential Design with Pizza ATM

Congratulations to OneWest Event’s for their impressive experiential marketing idea that exceeded Connectfirst Credit Union’s expectations! The “Pizza ATM” was a brilliant way to create genuine engagement with the brand while providing…

Exhibition Place Signs the Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge

TORONTO, March 15, 2023 – Exhibition Place has signed the Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge, joining a global movement of businesses committed to creating a sustainable future for the tourism industry. This pledge…

Five Ways to Deal With Negative Google Reviews

Five Ways to Handle a Bad Google Review When it comes to running a business, online reviews can make or break your reputation. A string of negative reviews on Google can be…

Meet One of Canada’s TOP Creative Visionaries

She’s one of Canada’s premier creative designers, the founder of Flowers Time, a legendary Toronto floral shop, the founder of LuxFlowerBox and the Founder of Engineered Arts. “Meet Alina Tacmelova, a visionary…

PC Insiders Report Holiday 2022 – The Living Page

The PC Insiders Report has marked the beginning of the holiday season for Canadians since 1983. Last year’s edition used 3D hologram technology and in-store sampling to bring the report out of…

2022 Canadian Event Awards Recipients

After two years of virtual award galas, the Canadian event community came back together to celebrate the 25th Annual Canadian Event Awards live from the fabulous Liberty Grand in Toronto, Canada, hosted…

Dining in the Dunes

Following their experience in Nova Scotia with Destination Canada, a group of international incentive planners stayed two more days to learn about one of my favourite destinations, Prince Edward Island. Planners immersed themselves…

Realising a Compassionate Planet

The goal of this event was to ask: Where do compassion science and climate science meet? What we do not have yet is the urgency of action that will make and sustain…

Bright Lights Windsor

Nominated for Best Outdoor Event, Bright Lights Windsor by The City of Windsor displays a world of celebrations and creates lifelong memories. Bright Lights Windsor 2021, welcomed over 100,000 guests to “create…

Hala Bissada’ Rocks the RBC Innovator’s Ball

This will be the last time we talk about a past winner for a bit because today we’ll be announcing the 2022 Canadian Event Award nominees. Then we are going to tell…

Best Practices for Simulcast Events

While the event landscape has changed (and will continue to), one thing remains the same: barrierless content accessibility. “Accessibility is not a feature, it’s a social trend.” – Antonio Vieira Santos Our…

We have the Whole World in our Hands

What is the meaning of “We have the Whole World in our Hands”? As the title implies, humans are in control of all aspects of creation, and we should take comfort in…

Mother’s Day 2022

To All the mothers of the year-past, present and those still to come. As a mother of three children, who has worked all of her life, would I have wanted to change…

“You have one chance to make a first impression”

As event professionals, we are forever searching for those ideas that will put us on top and build our reputations. As an Idea Hunter for many years, I was always challenged with…

Welcome to the Mall – Are you IN the Game?

If you can appreciate that V/R, A/R & the MetaVerse technologies represent an evolution of our current digital interactions, then it’s easier to understand the opportunity and hopefully a little less scary.…

Tourism Calgary partners with CanSPEP

Tourism Calgary is partnering with The Canadian Society of Professional Event Planners (CanSPEP) to bring an amazing opportunity to Canadian event professionals. Between now and April 30, 2022, Tourism Calgary, in conjunction…

2022 Trend Report

I have been writing, presenting, and inspiring trends for the last 35 years. It is an area of my business that I am passionate about. Over the last two years, the types…

Creative Problem Solving for Event Design in 3 Easy Steps!

As you might imagine, when working in the arena of live experiences for a living, event professionals run into all sorts of opportunities to Creative Problem Solve. Stacy Harwood of One West Events and…