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Bizzabo Adds Room-Block Management to its Offerings

MeetingsNet

The performance information—including the number of guest rooms booked, the number of guest rooms booked compared to the number of reservations, and the percentage of the room block filled in each contracted hotel—provides valuable attrition-management data.

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Nine conference mythodologies

Conferences that Work

Mythodology: We can contract a venue for our meeting before we design it. Designing your meeting and then choosing a venue that can showcase your design will improve your meeting experience (and can save you big bucks!) This is the meeting industry’s biggest dirty secret. Sources for additional information.

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Planning Starts for IMEX America 2023

Smart Meetings

The author of “Intentional Event Design” joined the IMEX team in June after leaving SITE Global where she was head of events for more than three years, to pursue a. I have been to every IMEX America since it began in 2011,” she recalled. A Focused Approach. “We We are always planning for next year,” Endean said.

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Stay on time!

Conferences that Work

From my perspective as a presenter and facilitator, I’m not sure there’s much I can do when others cause truncation of my contracted sessions or fill them with hungry, tired attendees. Perhaps a contract clause that doubles my fee if the session starts late or my available time is slashed? Stay on time! I can dream.

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Get Smart! There Was Never a Better Time to Up Your Game

SmartMeetings

He is founder and CEO of Event Leadership Institute (ELI), which has been offering training and education for the events industry since 2011. ELI has many offerings, including certificates in Fundraising Event Management, Event Entrepreneurship: Growth Strategies, and Pandemic Meeting & Event Design.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Contracting space — Total exhibition space shrank 20 percent compared to the average exposition footprint in last year’s survey. Plus, a seller’s market has added to the challenge: “Yes, I think the meetings industry as a whole improved last year, if you mean more meetings were hosted last year and more are being contracted for future years.