Alex Rollin

Yes

We recommend you use the location system that is built in, as opposed to creating tags or categories for locations.

Try starting with adding listings in each of the areas/neighbordhoods/cities you will be serving or focusing on, then, when using full location in the URL, check the location page to see the layout. Add widgets to the layout to show all the different CPTs or featured listings so the location page is robust.

Once yo uupgrade to GDV2 you can also make a type of ‘landing page’ using GD Listing and GD Map focused on a specific city, too, maybe with some special design or focused on a particular category.

If you have a list of locations you will serve, then you can also just as easily put links to the location pages into the menu.

Another plugin seems to be causing a conflict with the slug /events/
Could be leftovers form the calendar plugin you have installed.
I changed the events slug to eventsx and it works. You can adjust that in the Custom Post Type settings, to change the slug.
You might need to uninstall that calendar plugin completely to remove the settings it seems to have stored.

Please share the site URL and the profile info

You are writing in the GDV1 forum, so I assume you are asking about GDV1.

A feature like that will not be added to GDV1, but we are considering something like it for the future for GDV2.

GDV2 handles contact forms differently, using a 3rd party integration with Ninja Forms. Ninja forms may have some features to make this possible, too.

To track with analytics, you would need to add a custom class to the button, I would think, something that will be much easier to do with GDV2.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/try-geodirectory-v2/