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Should You Break the Bank to Hire a Celebrity Speaker?

PCMA Convene

Olympic track-and-field medalist Allyson Felix related her advocacy of contract protections for pregnant athletes to equal employment opportunities for all women during Convening Leaders 2023. Only 1 percent of respondents to a Freeman survey said they preferred celebrity speakers to those who had something relevant to say to their groups.

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How to Create an Event Contract

EventPlanning

Creating event contracts can be intimidating. Don’t fret, this article will help you create a basic event contract that will include clauses to help protect your event business. Before going into the meat of what a contract should contain, it is important to know that you should never agree to provide event services without a contract.

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Eventist Group wins RHS Chelsea Flower Show catering contract worth £25million over five years

Prestige Events Magazine

Eventist Group has won the prestigious catering contract for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, sponsored by The Newt in Somerset. The five-year contract will see Eventist Group provide diverse food and drink opportunities for more than 100,000 guests over the six-day event.

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Marriott’s ‘Meet with Momentum’ Creates Community Like None Other

Smart Meetings

Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract. Read More: Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract During the open Q&A, planners aired frustrations—contracts are time-consuming already.

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Experts: Travel Industry Could Coast Through Recession

Smart Meetings

Economists rarely agree on anything, but reports from Moody’s Analytics, Jeffries and The World Bank are in alignment that a recession is coming, probably by the end of 2023. Oxford Economics’ Savelli explained that during past recessions, room demand overreacted, with sometimes twice as much of a contraction as the economy overall.

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Everything you need to know about…Remittance

Skiddle

The funds take 2-3 days to enter your account and will be paid into the nominated bank account listed in the Promotion Centre. Please note: payment may be affected by bank holidays. Click here to access the promotion centre, log into your account and check and update your bank details. My remittance went to my old bank account.

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How Many Meetings Hotels Won’t Make It Through 2021?

MeetingsNet

This MeetingsNet article offers advice from two industry attorneys on how planners can monitor a property’s financial performance while also creating contract clauses that protect the meeting host from financial loss if a hotel suspends operations before the event happens.

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