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Attendee Accessibility and Inclusion from the Venue Side

MeetingsNet

A new toolkit for employees at hotels, convention centers, and special-event venues can provide planners with deeper perspective on what to ask during site selection. The guide also includes a resource list that can be customized to include local businesses who cater to event groups.

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Hitting the Mark with Your Event RFPs

MeetingsNet

With meeting season back in full swing, hotels are busy servicing corporate and association programs while their sales teams are sifting through the requests for proposals for business events set to happen in late 2023 and throughout 2024 and beyond. If you had a sense of urgency from the beginning, your RFP stayed active.” “But

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Capitol Hill Addresses Visa Wait Time Issue

PCMA Convene

nearly 7 million potential visitors and $12 billion in projected spending in 2023. events industry many would-be international attendees, buyers, and exhibitors. nearly 7 million potential visitors and $12 billion in projected spending in 2023. Travel Association estimates that visa processing delays have cost the U.S.

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Adjusting Strategies to Changing Business Models

PCMA Convene

(ESTRO social media) The pandemic has upended destinations’ view of business events as some kind of “subsidiary of tourism,” U.K.-based Events, he said, are now recognized as “being at the heart of the city’s reinvention.” Events, he said, are now recognized as “being at the heart of the city’s reinvention.”

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