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New Contract Essentials in an Ever-Changing Environment

SmartMeetings

2022 contracting will require going back to basics. Contracting in the current Covid climate, however, is complex—everything feels unsettled, so it’s hard to know how to plan. Anyone who has written a contract in the COVID era has learned one thing—patience! Now is not the time to skip a site visit.

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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

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. It’s believed to be more transmissible, but less severe.

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Hitting the Mark with Your Event RFPs

MeetingsNet

Tanna Pearman, meeting broker for Las Vegas-based Meetings Made Easy, handles site selection and contracting for both corporate and association clients, which means her approach to building RFPs focuses on different elements of each meeting to match a given destination and its various hotels. “We

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‘Tis the Season to Plan Wisely

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To mitigate the issues caused by high demand and staffing issues, it is paramount that planners communicate needs clearly—preferably during the time of drawing up a contract—to determine which services and outlets may be subject to limitations and to set expectations at host venues. This article appears in the October/November 2022 issue.