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How To Strike The Best Deal On Your Hotel Contract Negotiations

Endless Events

You might want to put your best suit on because today we’re talking about hotel contract negotiations! Additionally, he went on to start CONTACT Planning, Inc., a national meeting planning company, which books over 100,000 room nights annually. Can I Negotiate Venue AV Charges? Whiteboard Wednesdays.

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Advanced Hotel Negotiations, From the Hotel Side

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Register for “Advanced Hotel Negotiations, From the Hotel Side” To be a more effective negotiator, meeting planners will learn how hotels evaluate their businesses and manage their inventory of space, rates and dates. Learning Objectives. Pritzker Award for Excellence. Website: contactplan.com.

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How to Negotiate: Room Blocks

SmartMeetings

Here are a few tips on how to make the most of your negotiations. It is important to know exactly what you will want and need from a hotel before entering negotiations. If your meeting center is far away, can the hotel provide shuttle service ? Rule #4: Everything is negotiable. Is there free Wi-Fi? The easy compromise?

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Emerging Association Meeting Strategies

Smart Meetings

Adjusting Training Tactics Attention spans, in general, may have become the length of a TikTok video, but this also means associations are moving to meet the challenge.

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7 Strategies to Negotiate a Bigger Events Budget

SmartMeetings

Is demand for meetings expected to grow? Knowing what to expect will give you more leverage at the negotiating table. There are many new event technology tools that enable corporate meeting planners to analyze event success, attendee engagement and ROI in quantifiable ways. Don’t forget the data.

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Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge

SmartMeetings

Add to that staffing shortages, leading to fewer employees wearing multiple hats, taking on tasks they normally wouldn’t, or weren’t trained for. Hotels are now less likely to negotiate rental fees and other typically negotiable line items. With inflation also at play, room rates and F&B pricing are higher.

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Planners Scrambling as Bomb Cyclone Hits East Coast

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says meetings planned for even the most heated patio are being moved indoors—and staying there. “It Plan on delays. Legal expert Lisa Sommer Devlin says meeting insurance can often help cover losses if a storm makes travel impossible. What can planners do? Move it inside. Make room for higher attrition.