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Four Ways That Corporate Meeting Planners Can Trim Budgets

Master the Event

Corporate meeting planners are always looking for creative ways that they can trim their meetings budget without losing too much of the overall program. Today, corporate meeting planners have a tough job. Of course for many corporations and associations meetings are a vital part of their operation.

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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility

MeetingsNet

Changes in the work environment and in the next generation’s mindset mean that in-person corporate meetings must be different—but still must happen.

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Whittlebury Park reports surge in demand for corporate events

Prestige Events Magazine

Whittlebury Park luxury hotel, conference centre and golf course in Northamptonshire, experienced a robust growth in enquiries and bookings for corporate meetings and events in August and September this year, 95 per cent more than in May and June. The venue also confirmed 182 bookings for events which will take place up to 2022.

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Two Seller’s Market Strategies: Book Early, Book Late

MeetingsNet

Respondents interviewed for the just-released Summer 2016 edition of the quarterly Meeting Professionals International Outlook, are getting creative to book their meetings in a crunched and crazy market. read more.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

And that’s when I decided I would write my first book, Conferences That Work, Creating Events that People Love , to talk about the format, and make it available to anyone who wanted to use it. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry. This was my fifth career. It’s fascinating.

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Unique Meeting Space by the Hour in NYC—Believe It

MeetingsNet

Spacebase, a website for finding and booking unconventional, non-hotel venues for small meetings, has expanded out of Europe, with a just-launched presence in New York. read more.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Thinking ahead — The average booking window for large meetings is 2.2 years, slightly less than in the 2016 survey; for small meetings, it’s 9 months, compared to 11 months in the 2016 survey. 2017 Meetings vs. 2016 Meetings. The overall average is 10 months, compared to 11 months in the 2016 survey.