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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. Yes, all these logistical considerations are important and need to be done well!

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Attendee Accessibility and Inclusion from the Venue Side

MeetingsNet

A new toolkit for employees at hotels, convention centers, and special-event venues can provide planners with deeper perspective on what to ask during site selection. We must be at the forefront of accommodating people with varying abilities—some of which are invisible to others—and communicate options to meeting planners in advance.”

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The Art and Science of Event Venue Selection

Event Industry News

We know that site selection isn’t just a quick and easy endeavor. Will guests need to use public transportation? Can we create a natural flow of different content, experiences and activations, entertainment, event resources, food and beverage, accommodations, transportation? Public transportation?

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CVBs and DMOs: A Hidden Resource for Meeting and Event Professionals

Eventsforce

If they already have a site selected but want to make the event extra memorable, the DMO and CVB can help create an amazing experience for the attendees beyond the parameters of the actual event and bring the local feel to the attendees. Referrals to members and businesses for transportation, local gifts, etc.

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Ray Ezelle Lays Out Vision for Virginia’s Blue Ridge

Connect Your Meetings

Most recently, he was a third-party operator for a housing and site selection company. Roanoke has a history around transportation. There are a lot of organizations with ties to transportation. He spent nearly two decades as a hotelier before bringing that perspective to Connect (then Collinson Media & Events).

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Trademark introduces SiteSelect

Event Industry News

With a personal network of relationships at the highest levels of premier hotel chains, resorts, boutique and independent hotels, and venues worldwide, she is an expert at navigating the nuances of site selection, contracts, and the details affecting cost and return on investment.

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Adjusting Strategies to Changing Business Models

PCMA Convene

Alessandro Cortese Five years ago, the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) developed a site-selection strategy for its annual congress — which this year attracted more than 6,700 delegates in Vienna, Austria — that favored those destinations that recognized, in Clark’s words, that they had a challenge with cancer.

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