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Incentive Travel is Changing; Here’s What You Need to Know

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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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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

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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. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. Tell a Story.

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3 Ways to Source Smarter in a Sellers’ Market

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Not only are we in a seller’s market, but planners will also face tighter budgets, higher meeting costs, and less bandwidth. So, what happens when an unstoppable force (supplier price increases) meets an immovable object (meeting planning budgets)? . And 2019 and 2020 don’t look much better. . Kissimmee, Fla.;