EventMB

JUNE 22, 2022

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. The New Marketplace Philosophy for Meeting Bookings.

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Meetings Hotels 2020 B2B 164

Guidebook

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In order to succeed in this exciting and dynamic industry, it’s important for organizers to keep their fingers on the pulse of attendees’ expectations and make adjustments to meet them. . With this in mind, here are the top three trends shaping attendee experience in 2020. Venues will get more interesting … and so will locations.

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2020 Food and Beverage Sustainability Contracts 78

Event Industry News

MARCH 3, 2021

etc.venues has worked with NHS England to transform its venue at Garfield House, Marble Arch, London into a Covid Vaccination Centre, opening on 8 March. As a result, the company now has more than 70,000 square feet of venue space occupied as Nightingale Courts and a Vaccination Centre.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The New Year is upon us and as we look at 2022 for our meetings and group gatherings, we gaze into the future with bright eyes and positive grins and think, what the heck is going on? It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus.

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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. Caesars and Meet AC announced sustainability highlights from its newly released 2021 CSR Report —in a Leed-certified Augustus Tower villa suite—and the news (and views) are great.

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2021 Meetings Hotels Tourism 119

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Members of PCMA’s Catalyst community discuss when they might be able to invoke the force majeure clause in contracts for 2021 meetings. We have a 2021 contract in late April in Chicago for which we updated the force majeure clause to include COVID-19 as a specific situation that would allow us to cancel.

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2021 Meetings Contracts Hotels 98

SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Early in 2020, I expressed some concern about “brain drain” in our industry. Simultaneously, full-time, part-time and contract planning positions were slashed as “not needed.”. Supply, meet Demand as we move back into the world of live events. Loss and Opportunity jobs outlook. Brandt Krueger. The upshot?

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Meetings 2020 Technology Advertising 93

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. Yes, hybrid meetings are more complicated and costly, but virtual is here to stay without a doubt,” he said. Now all variations of meeting delivery are on the table.

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Meetings Food and Beverage 2021 Insurance 110

SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. See also : Meeting Profs Demonstrate Community and Resiliency on #MeetingsChat. Based on the in-person site inspection, that clause should allow meetings professionals the option to cancel the contract without penalty.

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Meetings Contracts Insurance 2025 104

PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The pandemic forced massive innovation for the business events industry after an initial swirl of false starts and stops, event postponements, meeting cancellations, massive layoffs, and upended traditional business models. “I While coronavirus clobbered conferences, conventions, and meetings in 2020, it decimated exhibitions.

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2020 Events Education Sponsorships 111

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

IBTM today announced that it has signed a new three-year contract with Barcelona Convention Bureau and Fira de Barcelona that will see IBTM World take place in the city up to and including the 2022 edition. December 2020. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours. Conferences. Exhibitions. Event Tech. Sporting Events.

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Contracts 2022 Sports 2020 56

MeetingsNet

MAY 12, 2023

With the full-on return of in-person events in 2023 a most welcome development—especially for associations who rely heavily on revenues from their annual meetings—one issue has gotten trickier for meeting hosts: event-cancellation insurance. Said the underwriter: “Covid changed the insurance market, and the changes aren’t done yet.”

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Insurance Trade Shows Contracts 2023 105

Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The wait is over… the 2020 edition of Event Buyers Live (EBL) will take place from November 23-25 at a location to be revealed next month. The change of date will allow event organisers to contract their suppliers more immediately and get their infrastructure in place at a time of year that’s better suited to their event planning.

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2020 2019 Trade Shows Contracts 69

MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Having a conversation with your venue about indoor air quality is a must. A meeting professional’s expertise can go in any number of directions: marketing, adult education, event design, site selection, contracting, event technology … It’s a dynamic role. Here are some resources to help you understand the basics.

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Site Selections Contracts Hotels 2020 105

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Unionized hotels provide the stability and training that hospitality workers are seeking—they could be part of the solution to the shortage that meeting planners are waiting for. Unite Here created FairHotel to assist meeting and event planners in choosing a union hotel or venue. The Beginnings of Labor Day.

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Hospitality Contracts Hotels Healthcare 98

Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Paje Consultancy Ltd are delighted to announce they have been awarded the contract to provide a full marketing, membership and enquiry service to the prestigious Westminster Venue Collection (WVC) from 1 st November 2021.

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Stova

MARCH 17, 2023

The Event Planner's Guide to Venue Sourcing and the RFP Process This guide examines a shift event professionals are experiencing in negotiation power with venues. We'll show you how to get the most out of strategy, opportunities, and tools available to strike the best deal with venues. Well, it seems that the party is over.

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Venues Negotiating Food and Beverage 2023 40

SmartMeetings

JUNE 2, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. Role clarity when selecting a virtual meeting platform was an area where participants noted an opportunity for improvement within their organizations. See also : The Online Meeting Resource Guide. — FICP (@FICP) June 2, 2020.

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Meetings Hospitality Education Insurance 67

Event Leadership Institute

JULY 28, 2021

If you or your organization require expert assistance, you should contract the services of a professional. Key Takeaways: Be a fully informed planner: read the entire contract, ask questions, and hire a hospitality attorney if you need assistance in reviewing, negotiating, or renegotiating a contract.

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Contracts Negotiating Food and Beverage Hotels 80

Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

SWAPPING serving fans for supervising Covid testing, 12-hour shifts to serve key workers and live-streaming church services – these are just a few of the ways in which staff at venues across Newcastle and Gateshead helped their communities during the pandemic lockdowns.

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Venues Hotels Hospitality Contracts 52

Unique Venues

MAY 19, 2021

AEG Presents Special Event Venues (AEGSEV) Are Springing Back to Life. progresses forward in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, live event venues are getting ready to reopen. The talent buyers, general managers and sales team all work together to make mutually beneficial decisions for the venues and the clients.

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Venues 2015 Contracts Corporate Meetings 69

Smart Meetings

MARCH 1, 2024

This will be the city’s 11th time hosting the Super Bowl, tying it with Miami, which hosted Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in 2020 for its 11th time. This will also be the eighth time the Superdome has hosted the Super Bowl, a record for most Super Bowls hosted in a stadium, marking a huge milestone for the venue in multiple ways.

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2025 Corporate Meetings Contracts Hotels 105

PCMA Convene

MARCH 20, 2023

A surge in violent crime has event professionals making safety and security in meeting destinations a priority. cities in 2020-21, by 20 percent in suburban communities, and, in 2021, increased by 25 percent in rural America. After falling for decades, the rate of violent crime in the United States rose sharply during the pandemic.

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Hotels 2020 Tourism Venues 98

Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 6, 2020

The first six-week Pandemic Meeting & Event Design Certificate course begins on September 1 and is eligible for 20 CMP hours. The new course is a companion to the Virtual Event and Meeting Management certificate course ELI and MPI launched earlier this year, already with over 1,200 alumni. Start Date: November 10, 2020.

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Event Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

The following insights were derived from the Event Marketer x Mosaic EventTrack 2021 industry forecast, AnyRoad’s Experiential Trends 2021 report, Northstar Meetings Group’s May 2021 Pulse Survey and Bizzabo’s Q2 2021 Virtual Events Benchmark Report. Inadequate staffing at venues and hotels is the No. Source: EventTrack).

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2021 2020 Event Marketing Hotels 130

SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Meeting professionals have always shouldered a hefty bag of tricks to fix the jagged edges that emerge at even the most meticulously polished events. Today, though, even veteran meeting organizers face Code Red calamities previously unimaginable. More than seven percent had produced more than 10 face-to-face meetings during that time.

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Food and Beverage Contracts Hotels Meetings 107

SmartMeetings

APRIL 17, 2020

Mutual support and optimism was trending during a joint #MeetingsChat Twitter Chat discussion on Thursday moderated by Smart Meetings and Meetings Mean Business. MeetingsMeanBiz (@meetingsmeanbiz) April 16, 2020. Conference Care Package (@Confcarepackage) April 16, 2020. NYC & Company (@nycgo_press) April 16, 2020.

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Contracts 2020 Healthcare Hospitality 66

Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 21, 2020

For most meeting planners, audiovisual is not a core competency. In the Event Leadership Institute’s Technical Meeting & Event Production Certificate course, AV veteran Brandt Krueger reviews the four types of AV companies you can choose from. However, they offer convenience and intimate knowledge of the venue.

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Negotiating Contracts Speakers Venues 89

Event Leadership Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can event and meeting pros do to keep their skills relevant and up-to-date? Check out these resources to keep your skills sharp for the rest of 2020 and into 2021. Learn what it takes to produce virtual events and meetings – including virtual fundraisers. Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Consulting Education 52

SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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Financial Insurance Meetings Food and Beverage 72

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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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 31, 2020

I know the meetings industry looks dark right now and the future is unclear. I lived through contracting it and it sucked. A lot of talented people are losing their jobs because of the need to pause meetings to slow the spread of the virus. After all, this is the year 2020, the same numbers used to benchmark ideal eyesight.

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2020 Contracts Consulting Meetings 117

Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Our enquiry levels are the same as they were in the early part of March 2020 and only 20% short of what there were at this time in 2019,” says Michael Begley, CEO of venuedirectory.com. These are all strong and encouraging signs that corporate and agency buyers are regaining their confidence to plan in-person meetings and events.”.

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Event Leadership Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Read on for 33 questions to evaluate when planning for the return of in-person events, curated from planners who recently completed our Pandemic Meeting & Event Design certificate course. What is the event need/goal, and must the outcomes be achieved by meeting in-person? And if so, what components should the contract include?

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Insurance Food and Beverage Contracts Transportation 105

SmartMeetings

MARCH 27, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has thrown meeting professionals in an unprecedented position with cancellations, postponements and venue closures affecting the course of the next few months, at least. COVID-19 Considerations for Meetings Contracts. Coronavirus Fears Force Go/No-Go Decisions for Meetings.

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2019 Contracts Transportation Consulting 60

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

What if my venue doesn’t have Wi-Fi?” Medical meetings? I remember well how people’s minds were blown when the likes of DoubleDutch got more than $50 million from players outside the usual meetings and events suspects. Every couple of months, the number of event apps out in the world began to, ever so slightly, contract.

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