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Smart Moves: Food and Beverage

Smart Meetings

Marelli most recently worked at The Gwen, A Luxury Collection Hotel in Chicago, where, as the property’s pastry chef, she established its first pastry program. She also worked at Chicago’s Langham Hotel as executive pastry chef. David Nowak Hawaii’s Hilton Waikoloa Village named Nowak director of food and beverage.

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Skyrocketing Costs Squeeze Event Budgets

Velvet Chainsaw

Credit: iStock Event organizers are feeling the pinch as industry suppliers, venues and transportation companies rebound from the pandemic. Event venues are raising rates for basic services like electrical, internet, trash management and catering. in group hotel rates, with a 7.8%

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6 Budget-Saving Tips for 2019: Maximize Your Event Budget, Not Your Spend

Eventmobi

Thankfully, with a few savvy budget-saving tips, you can run a successful, professional event with minimum event budget costs in 2019. Ask businesses to sponsor the entire event – providing the venue, food, and A/V equipment, or just one element. There’s no way you can afford the speaker fee, let alone their flight and hotel.

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How Hotels Scrambled to Staff the Return of Events

Smart Meetings

All too often we attempt to glean some semblance of an explanation or understanding when confronted with an understaffed hotel or event venue and you have probably strategized about all the ways you would “fix” the situation if you were in charge. Read More : The Great Hospitality Restart. “

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75+ Ideas to Cut Meeting Costs

MeetingsNet

How to stretch your event budget for food and beverage, event tech, ground transportation, and venues. Almost half said they anticipate at least some increase in hotel room rates, while a similar percentage expect costs to rise for audiovisual and event tech services. Choice Cuts for Food and Beverage Savings.

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8 Event Budget Adjustments Needed to Host Safe Events in 2021

Event Farm

Venue and governmental regulations keep changing. Marcella Farman-Dietz, executive event consultant for Medialink, joined Ryan Costello, co-founder of Event Farm, to discuss a sample event budget for a one-day business summit and reception for 400 attendees at a hotel conference center in NYC. Onsite testing is another variable.

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12 Hottest Event Trends of 2019

Brown Paper Tickets

2019 will be the year of the pig, the year of living coral , the year of amazing events and big moments. Attendee experience is everything and we’re seeing that reflected in 2019 event trends. Because of this new er … culture, expect to see more uses of alternative and unusual venues. Hotel Bars. Themed Fitness.

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