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Houston After Harvey

PCMA Convene

Brown, Luther Villagomez, had experienced Rita and experienced Katrina here in Houston [in 2005], and knew what to expect. Ninety-eight percent of the hotels in and around the Greater Houston area were not materially damaged. Most of the staff had been through hurricanes in the past, so the one good thing we had was past experience.

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Planning for disaster: Best practices and essential terminology

Plan Your Meetings

since 2005 than there were in the previous 23 years combined. There’s nothing about the hotel having a crisis management plan, and nothing about the venue offering a staff member to help the organization design a contingency plan of its own. “I Tell the hotel? are on the rise. It starts with location. ‘Am Find your CEO?”

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