MeetingsNet
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Check the contracts for deadlines. There are a lot of new contract deadlines for ordering meals that can add upwards of 25 percent onto the cost of the meal if the deadlines are not met. A cold, wet can of soda might be refreshing but attendees are less likely to squirrel it away for later in their conference bag. she says. •
Endless Events
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Let’s take the skill of hotel contract negotiations ; novice planners tend to feel overwhelmed by the nitty-gritty details of hotel contracts and often learn as they go. To prevent them from signing a bad contract, we’ve put together five tips to help them navigate the surprisingly complex world of hotel contracts.
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Velvet Chainsaw
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The meeting rooms you contracted for may have been double booked. Hotel and convention center service — Catering staff and food-and-beverage outlet servers are noticeably hard to come by. What are some other ways you have dealt with staff shortages at your conferences? Some of these groups have been squeezed in.
Velvet Chainsaw
MARCH 15, 2023
IStock Photo by cyano66 Before the pandemic, one could argue that jobs with life-and-death consequences were surely more stressful than planning an annual conference. Exhibitors are being more selective about the conferences they will support. Annual conference budgets are usually finalized 12-plus months prior to the event.
Prestige Events Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The arm of national catering business, Amadeus , responsible for the delivery of standalone event catering, has secured its latest contract with Unique Venues Birmingham (UVB). Events by Amadeus has been working with UVB since 2019, and the team have signed a new three-year contract to deliver catering provisions to the organisation.
Smart Meetings
JUNE 27, 2023
But entering a new relationship with a hotel usually comes with a detailed contract of agreements and stipulations. year period of time have shifted into the future years causing a significant demand and compression issue when contracting with hotels,” Payne said. Smart Meetings chatted with Cheryl M.
MeetingsNet
APRIL 15, 2024
Every meeting element—the budget, the agenda, the food and beverage, the production, all of it—will go through several iterations as the planning goes on. She also explained that “the new action plan his internal team had to take on would keep them from doing other things they had to do to make the conference a success.”
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