Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, today released its monthly meetings and events data for June reporting a significant increase of 334 percent over June 2021. June 2022 rebounded from May 2022 with a 16.6 percent increase month over month.
Average attendees per event continue to outpace 2019 – The average number of attendees per event for June 2022 was 117, compared to 59 in June 2021 and 89 in June 2019.
Average space used per person lower than 2019 – The average space used in June 2022 was 3,073 sq. ft. Meetings in June 2021 averaged 2,509 sq. ft. and 3,710 sq. ft. in June 2019. Proportionally from a per person (p/p) perspective, 2022 meeting space used averaged 26 sq. ft. p/p as opposed to 42 sq. ft p/p in 2021 and 42 sq. ft. p/p in 2019.
Top five market growth compared to May 2022 – The top five growth markets compared to May (in order) in June were Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Salt Lake City.
Corporate meetings continue as the dominant segment – The corporate segment represents 62.2 percent of meeting and event business with Technology, Healthcare, and Financial/Banking taking the lead as the largest industry groups. From a recovery standpoint compared to June 2019 levels, Online Retailer, Urban Infrastructure, Sports Entertainment/Media, Packing/Shipping, and Tobacco are the segments at the highest level of recovery capture in June of 2022.
Corporate meetings continue as the dominant segment representing 62.2% of meeting and event business— Photo by Knowland
Kristi White, chief product officer, Knowland, said:“June continued the growth we have seen in the past few months. Typically, there is a minor decline in event volume from May to June. So a 16.6 percent growth month-over-month illustrates the continuing strength of recovery for the U.S. Additionally, the biggest growth appeared in the Top 25 Markets and smaller markets outside the tier-one cities which indicates growth is being seen all across the country and not just in the biggest metro areas.”
About the Data: Insights presented are a result of the analysis of meetings and events data acquired through Knowland data collection and aggregation methods, including field reporting and automated methods of customer and non-customer data collection in primary, secondary, and tertiary markets, as well as its large historical database. View the Knowland hospitality industry meeting activity forecast, the U.S. Meetings Recovery Forecast, on its website.
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Knowland is the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality. With the industry’s largest historical database of actualized events, thousands of customers trust Knowland to sell group smarter and maximize their revenue. Knowland operates globally and is headquartered just outside Washington, DC. To learn more about our solutions, visit www.knowland.com or follow us on Twitter @knowlandgroup.
Plans for the upcoming Trout Festival are moving full steam ahead – and if those plans hold true, it will look much different, with new events and several location changes.
Plans for the upcoming Trout Festival are moving full steam ahead – and if those plans hold true, it will look much different, with new events and several location changes.
Gone will be Main Street Days, along with the Fish Fry social being hosted in the Whitney Forum. Instead, this year’s event will see a shuffling of venues for some events, with several new entries.
The Fish Fry will move a few blocks over to the R.H. Channing Auditorium, with the Flin Flon Arts Council running point on the event – entertainment will be provided by several local bands. Many Main Street Days festivities will be moved to Creighton, including the carnival midway, which will be set up around the Creighton Sportex from June 30 to July 2. While Main Street will be the location of a farmer’s market and buskers event June 29, the street will remain open throughout the festival.
One Trout Festival event is already underway – the Trout Festival fishing derby, which runs until June 30 with winners announced July 8. Fish caught on any lake in either Manitoba or Saskatchewan between the 54th and 55th parallels are eligible to be entered into the contest.
The festival will include a new disc golf tournament June 25 around the Creekside Park course, a yoga in the park event June 26 at the Creighton Oval of Dreams and a skateboard demo held by Sk8 Skates from Winnipeg at the skatepark near Hapnot Collegiate. Events will take a two day pause June 27-28, but will continue June 29 with the Beat the Chief competition with the Flin Flon Fire Department, a community barbecue at Pioneer Square and the farmer’s market-busker event.
For June 30, events kick into high gear – a pool tournament at Rack’s Billiards, a second, smaller Fish Fry event at the Hooter in Creighton and a new event, the Ross Lake Regatta, in the evening – sponsors will provide kayaks and canoes and allow for boats to be launched onto Ross Lake to enjoy music, food and a front-row seat to the Canada Day fireworks display at midnight.
July 1 will see the Canada Day parade stretching from Green Street in Flin Flon all the way into Creighton, wrapping up at the Creighton ball diamond. Canada Day celebrations will continue on at Creighton and Denare Beach – 1 p.m.-4 p.m. in Creighton, 5 p.m.-midnight at the beach – along with a classic car show-and-shine will take place at Creighton Pizza. The festival will wrap up with the Flinty Golf Tournament at the Phantom Lake Golf Club July 2, along with a pig roast at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 73.
The organizational structure for this year’s festival has been one of the biggest changes – instead of events being organized by a small group of volunteers as they’ve been in recent years, a selection of corporate sponsors and community groups have mainly taken the reins.
“It’s a lot easier – there’s only six of us on the committee and that’s a lot of work for six people to do. It’s great when organizations are able to step up and take care of the events,” said Colleen Arnold, the City of Flin Flon’s representative on the board.
“I don’t know why we didn’t all work together before like this – we always advertised the events and everything, but we’re working a lot more closely.”
There’ll be 15 mannequins along with other displays.
Fleur de Villes is returning to Vancouver for a female-focused floral function.
For 10 days starting June 3 public spaces in Vancouver’s downtown will be blooming brilliantly with 15 mannequins placed about the core with features familiar to many. The show, dubbed FEMMES, celebrates remarkable women with mannequins decorated like them.
That means famed locals like Sarah MacLachlan, Shaylan Stone Child, and Emily Carr will be featured. Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson will also be featured. For those looking to learn more about each of the women, a QR code and images will provide a profile on each woman.
Along with the 15 mannequins, the show will have several other components, like a “flower-bombed” 1957 MGA Roadster, a floral swing and a pop-up flower market. Some restaurants, like 1931 Gallery Bistro, will be serving related foods and drinks, as well.
“Each of our shows is an entirely different experience, celebrating the local community and made possible by local partners like the DVBIA which support Fleurs de Villes events being freely and most beautifully open to the public,” says co-founder Karen Marshall in a press release.
While Fleur de Villes is based in Vancouver, they’ve held shows around the world; versions of FEMME have popped up in Miami, Chicago and Toronto.
Today marks the start of National Public Works Week, a time for the City to recognize the hard work being done to manage and maintain our traffic and transportation infrastructure, parks and natural assets, waste, water and so much more. This year’s theme is Ready and Resilient.
Over the past few years, our Public Works employees have shown resilience in the face of numerous challenges, never failing to provide the services that Ottawa residents rely on. You might remember Significant Weather Events being introduced earlier this year. The City announced it would begin declaring extreme weather for the first time this past winter; Mother Nature got the message and sent not one, but two Significant Weather Events our way – the first bringing 48 centimetres of snow and 50 kilometres/hour winds to Ottawa over two days in January.
So, what happens when Ottawa gets hit by a Significant Weather Event? While you might see the snowplows out clearing sidewalks, roads, and the winter cycling network, a lot of work is happening quickly behind the scenes and across multiple operational groups in Public Works to get life in the city back to normal as quickly as possible.
Peek behind the scenes
Preparation for a Significant Weather Event starts well before extreme weather hits. Public Works employees monitor multiple weather service providers on a constant basis so that teams can be adjusted and readied year-round. This January, employees rallied quickly to call a Significant Weather Event in advance of the blizzard, giving residents a heads-up of the incoming snow, anticipated travel challenges and a necessary parking ban.
These situations are dynamic and no two are the same, so it’s “all hands on deck” for Public Works employees.
In the lead-up to the snowfall, communications between all Public Works teams and their many internal partners were established quickly. Everyone understood their role before the first snowflake appeared, and employees coordinated to send news of the Significant Weather Event and parking ban through multiple channels, including the 3-1-1 call centre, social media, City Council and the winter parking e-alert.
Meanwhile, some Public Works employees were busy working out the operational details, like:
Determining how many additional equipment operators might be needed to handle all the snow
Scheduling shifts that would run for the duration of the storm and ensure a continuous effort
Double-checking that equipment was in working order
Putting mechanics on standby – just in case
Coordinating quickly to delay curb-side waste pick-up by one day, knowing that removing waste collection vehicles and bins from the road would be a huge help
Some Public Works employees who were trained to use specialized equipment were pulled from their usual work in other areas to help clear snow from the sidewalks, while others worked to plow hundreds of parking spaces at City facilities, offering residents longer-term off-street parking options and improving roadway snow-clearing.
Throughout the Significant Weather Event, there were Public Works employees monitoring the transportation network via the Traffic Control Centre, adjusting traffic signals and dispatching snowplows to high-volume intersections or problem areas as needed. And, of course, there were employees dedicated to updating the public and the media, no matter the hour.
It takes a lot of coordination, effort and dedication to make sure things go as smoothly and safely as possible during a Significant Weather Event. Thankfully, Public Works employees are ready and resilient.
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Which American band’s performance at the New Yorker Theatre on Yonge Street in 1976 is regarded as one of the inspirations for the punk scene that blossomed in Toronto soon after?
By Jamie bradburnSpecial to the Star
Sun., May 15, 2022
This weekJamie Bradburn dives into the history of live music in Toronto.
As the Town of Gravenhurst’s council prepares for what they hope becomes a busy summer, 12 events have been deemed “municipally significant.”
The designation makes it easier for the selected events to apply for a special occasions permit with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Shawna Patterson, the town’s Manager of Recreation Services, says they require that the municipality hosting the event is aware the events will be serving alcohol.
The events given the designation are:
ACBS Antique and Classic Boat Show
Celebrate Uptown Sidewalk Sale
Dockside and Muskoka Music Festival
Gravenhurst Car Show
Gravenhurst Curling Club Summer Bonspiel
Gravenhurst Triathlon
Gravenhurst Winter Carnival
In-Water Boat and Cottage Show with Ribfest
Northern Pass Bike Ride
Ontario Power Boat Racing Association
Tall Pines Music Festival
Toronto Outboard Racing Club
“We have a large list of events that are turning this year and a couple of new ones,” Patterson says, pointing to the Tall Pines Music Festival as one of the new events.
She added that there are many other events returning this year, but they don’t need a liquor license, so they don’t have to be declared municipally significant.
“It sounds like you and your staff are going to have a busy summer,” Mayor Paul Kelly said. “It’s great news. It’s been pretty quiet the last couple of summers in Gravenhurst. It’s nice to see and congratulations on the efforts you’ve put out there to get some new things happening here.”
A snowstorm that started Thursday afternoon prompted the City of Ottawa to declare a “significant weather event.”
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On-street parking will be banned Friday between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. as crews clean up from the anticipated heavy snowfall. Anyone with an on-street monthly parking permit is exempted from the ban, but the city is encouraging motorists to find off-street parking options to help plow operators.
The city makes OC Transpo park-and-ride lots and some recreation centres available for parking during on-street parking bans.
Environment Canada predicted as much as 30 centimetres of snow could fall by Friday morning. The city said it could take longer than usual to clear roads, sidewalks and bike lanes. The downtown occupation could also impact snow clearing in that area.
Public transit will be heavily impacted on Friday and in the coming days because of the snowstorm and the downtown occupation, which is coming under stronger police enforcement.
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OC Transpo warned transit customers that a limited number of articulated buses would be deployed to routes, with the agency relying heavily on double-decker buses and 40-foot buses for service. Buses will run on reduced schedules across the city.
The articulated buses have had a difficult time operating in deep snow, as illustrated during a blizzard last month, when 48 centimetres of snow fell on Ottawa in one day.
OC Transpo is also closing the LRT line between Pimisi and Hurdman stations for an unspecified period of time starting Friday morning. Trains will still run between Tunney’s Pasture and Pimisi stations, and between Hurdman and Blair stations. Downtown LRT stations will be closed.
Environment Canada has identified hazardous weather for Friday, February 18. As a result, the City of Ottawa has declared a Significant Weather Event. The Roads and Parking Services team will be out maintaining the City’s sidewalks, roads and the winter cycling network, but will take longer than usual to restore them to regular conditions.
A daytime winter weather parking ban will be in effect tomorrow from 10 am to 7 pm.
During a winter weather parking ban, parking is prohibited on city streets so crews can plow easily and effectively. Vehicles parked on the street during a ban may be ticketed and towed. Though on-street monthly parking permit holders are exempt from this restriction when they are parked in residential parking permit zones, we encourage those who can to find off-street parking options to avoid getting snowed-in.
Available parking
During winter weather parking bans, residents will have access to select OC Transpo park and rides as well as certain recreation centres. Visit ottawa.ca/winter for more information about which City facilities are available during winter weather parking bans.
OC Transpo cancellations and delays
Due to anticipated weather conditions, OC Transpo is advising customers of possible extensive cancellations that would result in significant delays to tomorrow’s bus service. Customers are advised to give themselves plenty of extra time when planning their commute and to exercise patience.
Please exercise caution when using City sidewalks, roads and the winter cycling network.
The fluid situation around the ongoing demonstration will result in operating constraints that will make it difficult to accessing areas near the Parliamentary precinct. The City intends to keep focus on pedestrian and emergency access routes through the area, clearing and treating sidewalks and facilitating the safe movement of emergency vehicles, where possible. Residents are advised to avoid non-essential travel in the area.
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