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Corporate Meeting Planning – Site Inspections

Master the Event

Site inspections are an important part of the corporate meeting planning industry. Corporate Meeting Planning – Site Inspections – Help… So work has begun on an annual conference, a couple of years down the road, with a short list of potential cities being considered.

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Cvent’s ‘Top Meetings Destinations’ and ‘Top Meeting Hotels’ Returns: Nashville and San Diego Move Up

Smart Meetings

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S.

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Honey, I Shrunk the Budget – The New Norm in Meeting Planning

Master the Event

Having been on the destination management side of meeting planning, I’ve seen a definite shift in the budgets that planners and their clients are allocating for events. A Budget Can Be a Challenge With meeting planning, planners are constantly being challenged to make the next event bigger and better than the last.

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The meeting industry new normal – Part 3

Conferences that Work

The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal. In October 2020 I wrote two posts [1 , 2 ] about what a meeting industry new normal might look like. Holding in-person meetings: what do we now know? It’s time to take another look. Accommodations.

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Groups360 Adds Choice Hotels to Group Instant Booking Platform

Smart Meetings

Will GroupSync Marketplace act as Expedia for meetings? Groups360 announced this week that Choice Hotels worldwide will be offering online instant booking for group guest rooms through their proprietary GroupSync Marketplace. This puts the hospitality technology platform one step closer to being the Expedia of meeting planning.

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Top Challenges Facing the Meeting Planning Industry Right Now

The Castle Group

While many industries were able to shift to a remote workforce, hotels, restaurants and airlines faced major layoffs and demand fluctuations and are now playing catch up, hiring and training staff in a tight market. Work with hotel partners and other vendors to understand their weak spots. So how can you prepare? Supply Chain.

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Attention Meeting Planners: Instant Booking Is Finally Here

EventMB

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. In reality, the real sticking point was a matter of hotel reluctance.

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