Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

As a 2019 15 Over 50 honoree, Ferreris discusses her passion for the events industry. What I do: I am responsible for contracting more than 75 hotel agreements per year. The post 2019 15 Over 50: Blanca Ferreris, CMP, CMM appeared first on Connect Association.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 27, 2018

But in terms of development of hotels, meeting industry infrastructure, and new or improved attractions, the Big Apple appears more active than ever. With an abundance of blockbuster openings across New York City, 2019 will truly be a monumental year,” says Fred Dixon, NYC & Company president and CEO.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

If you can’t get the hotel concessions your stakeholders are expecting, it’s in your best interest to educate them about the current landscape. Let’s face it, being on either side of the table in hotel-contract negotiations is tough these days. Here’s how one meeting professional does it. Right now is not that time.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Julio Flores Julio Flores Flores joins the recently renovated Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Carson as general manager. She served as Vice President for MPI’s Aloha Chapter in 2019 and is passionate about creating extraordinary guest experiences. In this role, she will personally oversee high-profile bookings from contract to completion.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 25, 2024

Like many associations, SMFM signs contracts with its host destinations years in advance. In 2019, they began including a frustration of purpose clause when “we started seeing these really egregious state laws,” said Nneka St. Gerard, CMP, chief program officer, meetings, membership, and marketing at SMFM.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. Business events and hotel group room bookings are nearly half of what they were in 2019. Hotels cost more, air travel is limited and more expensive and inflation has made travel in general more costly.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

As a 2019 15 Over 50 honoree, Longo discusses his passion for the events industry. Specific improvement I’ve made: Prior to my involvement, there was no formal process for the collection and execution of organizational conference contracts. Today, all conference contracts are sourced through Experient.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

To find out what changing occupancy rates across the country will mean for booking hotels in the future, CoStar Group Director of Hospitality Analytics Daryl Cronk shared insights from the STARreport , the essential measure of the health of the hospitality industry. Groups, led by the example of Taylor Swift could help lift hotel futures.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. Business events and hotel group room bookings are nearly half of what they were in 2019. Hotels cost more , air travel is limited and more expensive and inflation has made travel in general more costly.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Once the contract has been signed, the tough talk doesn’t stop. Choices, Choices.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Today, the mentees have announced that Fast Forward Fiesta – a stylish evening of fun for the events industry – will be held at 7pm on Thursday 28 th February 2019 at Sheraton Grand London Park Lane. Stress is believed to increase the risk of contracting HPV which subsequently raises a woman’s chance of suffering from cervical cancer.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 16, 2019

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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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

increase (forecast: 48.5), hotels saw a 29.8% billion passengers in 2023, nearly reaching 2019 numbers, a year that saw 4.54 Aggregate travel spend to increase the value of regular contract proposals. The increases in price forecasted in 2022 by CWT and GBTA were far outpaced by the actual numbers across all sectors.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A veteran planner discusses how she nudges hotels to act on her requests for proposal: She gives to get. First, include or be prepared to share historical information with salespeople,” even if it means including figures for the 2022 edition of the meeting along with, because of the business gap during the Covid pandemic, the 2019 edition.

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Event Industry News

JULY 13, 2021

Just one month after registration went live for IMEX America in Las Vegas this November, hosted buyer demand is higher than it was at the same point in 2019, which was a record. Alongside the buyers, an international range of exhibitors are contracting week on week and span all sectors of the industry but particularly North America.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In 2019, FAMP drew 1,500 attendees and 140 booths. During the spring and early summer, Saunders and her team communicated regularly with the hotel, which was closed during lockdown and set to re-open on July 1. Postpone to 2021 with the same contract terms.”. The contract terms were favorable,” said Saunders. Held Sept.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Even as we sit here now, the last three to four meetings that have been in San Francisco this year have matched their 2019 attendance, which not many meetings and events are doing anywhere in the country, or they’ve broken their all-time records. And the hotels are beautiful in San Francisco. Our downtown footprint is what it is.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As nationwide demand flattens, hotels target the meetings segment with rising rates and fees to maintain their revenue. economy is losing steam—and some proof coming from the most recent hotel performance statistics—one might think that meeting and event planners are poised to gain the upper hand as they negotiate for upcoming programs.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It has topped of the list of challenges identified by planners in Convene ’s Annual Meetings Market Survey for years, including in the 2017 and 2020 surveys, conducted in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and in our most recent survey (to be published in a special Convene November Forecast issue).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once a legally binding contract is in place, it sets the stage for easier conversations,” said Dustin Arnhem, senior vice president of sales with Visit Baltimore. “There are more visitors, more flights, more hotels and more investments.” Reduced greenhouse emissions by 36.1% and water withdrawal by 33% since 2011.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. However, the FBI reports active shooter events increased 33 percent in 2020 compared to 2019 and 100 percent compared to 2016. We’re moving into year three of what will most likely be a continuation of the dreaded ‘P’ word: pivoting.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 27, 2020

4 Tips for MeetingProfs Filing 2019 Taxes in the Year of Coronavirus. The United States Secretary of the Treasury postponed the deadline for filing 2019 federal tax returns to July 15, 2020 with no penalties or interest due to disruptions connected to coronavirus. COVID-19 Considerations for Meetings Contracts.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

They provide in-house AV and production at convention centers, venues, and hotels such as Kimpton, Hyatt, and Marriott, across the country. This month on January 14th, 2019, PSAV published a press release announcing the purchase agreement for PSAV to acquire Encore Event Technologies. January 2019. Kelso & Co. January 2014.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. That pent-up demand was evident at hotels all over the state. In mid-February, occupancy was 66%, down only 9% from the same week in 2019.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Oxford Economics’ Savelli explained that during past recessions, room demand overreacted, with sometimes twice as much of a contraction as the economy overall. A day of reconning may be coming for hotels,” Meyer said. Let’s take a deeper dive into why events and business travel might float above the turbulence.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As MPI celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is looking forward to 2027 with a new contract for CEO and president Paul Van Deventer with a focus on advocacy, innovation and education to expand and engage a diverse community. As of Friday, there are 109 signatories across venues, destinations, suppliers and hotels.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Your executive is a commitment-phobe but the hotel won’t hold your space. Even for planners at the top of their game, the current meeting climate has created new levels of stress—the result of severe hotel booking compression, high turnover in supplier staff, and short meeting lead times. What’s a planner to do? The New Environment.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Set adjacent to the Conference Centre, the 168-room ROK Hotel Kingston, a Tapestry Collection by Hilton property, opened in July 2022 featuring 6 meeting rooms and spacious public areas for events. NYC & Company reported at IMEX that the destination expects to recover 85% of its record 2019 visitation, welcoming 56.7

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Underwood shared that, overall, hotel rates are up 38% since before the pandemic and properties are less likely to negotiate day rates or minimums than pre-Covid as they are under pressure from increased labor and operating costs. Thank you @LEOEvents for putting some context behind the increased prices and fees we are seeing in contracts.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Research Finds Sponsorships Are Still Relevant According to a 2019 report from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research ( CEIR ) of 200 show executives and 728 exhibitors, sponsorships make up roughly 20% of B2B tradeshow revenues. Establishing the conference fee, contracting with the venue and locking the dates will require some effort.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Businesses in a 2019 survey cited increasing costs and lower budgets as the top two challenges they face as they plan events. This sometimes results in a more expensive event contract than if you were to start with one of the pre-designed packages. Review the Contract. More : Master Win-Win Negotiations for Your Contracts.

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Guidebook

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. . If you’re looking at a non-traditional venue, you may need to find and contract your own vendors, so start planning early!

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 22, 2019

After event organizers manage to motivate attendees to register for a program, they face another — and arguably, more challenging — hurdle: getting them to book a room at one of the hotel properties in the official hotel block. Organizers just may not have known it.” David McMillin is an associate editor at Convene.

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Event Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

Inadequate staffing at venues and hotels is the No. When asked, “If you are working with hotels and venues for future meetings or events, are you experiencing any of these difficulties? Select all that apply,” 39.69% of event marketers said a lack of adequate staffing at hotels and similar event venues is their top concern.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The impressive result of this imaginative approach was over 50% higher engagement compared to the last in-person event in 2019. Jeremy and members of the UKSV team along with their guest Judy Cornwell from BI, were presented with their trophy at an awards evening at The Montcalm Hotel in London’s Marble Arch in late September.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. This is your opportunity to assess your level of trust in the security team and hotel management and decide whether your event warrants an outside security agency. Price and availability are the main considerations when choosing a venue, but Tyra Hilliard, Esq.,

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2019 LNER introduced six new Azuma trains direct between London. Facilities include a world-class conference auditorium, the splendid Royal Hall and 13,700 m 2 flexible event space along with onsite parking and adjacent hotels. Further parking and numerous quality hotels are available in easy walking distance.

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