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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. Event planners are experiencing sticker shock from rising costs for audiovisual, food and beverage, and other direct meeting expenses.

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CONTRACTING EXCELLENCE: EVENTS BY AMADEUS CELEBRATES NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIQUE VENUES BIRMINGHAM

Prestige Events Magazine

The arm of national catering business, Amadeus , responsible for the delivery of standalone event catering, has secured its latest contract with Unique Venues Birmingham (UVB). Events by Amadeus has been working with UVB since 2019, and the team have signed a new three-year contract to deliver catering provisions to the organisation.

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Hotel Squeeze: Meetings-Focused Properties Expect Strong Demand in '24

MeetingsNet

In fact, group business ( see chart ) has recovered to the point that more group rooms were sold in October 2023 than in October 2019. However, it’s not just competition from other meeting groups that has planners in a tough spot as they negotiate contract terms for their 2024 events.

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Sponsorship Needs to Be More Than Banners and Clings

Velvet Chainsaw

Mattering can include attendee experience enhancers like a charging station, free Wi-Fi, food and beverage offerings or a give-away that attendees value. Most organizers can effectively sell these by offering them as a check-the-box, upsell opportunity during booth contracting. Would You Like Fries with that Booth?”.

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A "Craigslist" for Canceled Meetings?

MeetingsNet

An online reseller of contracted meeting elements launches a week ahead of its industry rollout at the IMEX show in Frankfurt. When meetings are canceled, the group that signed the contract is typically responsible to pay either a flat fee or a percentage of the revenue they were to bring to the contracted supplier. I doubt it."

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Mortgage Group Brokers Deal for Face-to-Face Convention

PCMA Convene

In 2019, FAMP drew 1,500 attendees and 140 booths. They gave us three options: Terminate our original contract and they would return our deposit with no penalty, Reschedule the event in 2020 with new contract terms; or. Postpone to 2021 with the same contract terms.”. The contract terms were favorable,” said Saunders.

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2020 Event Trends Shaping Attendee Experience

Guidebook

During the second half of 2019, I spoke to more organizers asking for an app so they could reduce their paper consumption and waste,” said Conor Zindroski, a member of Guidebook’s sales team. . Look for sustainable venues, communication, vendors like food & beverage, and furniture rentals.

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