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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.

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Changing Abortion Laws Create Duty-of-Care Issue for Meeting Hosts

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Morals and politics aside, site selection in post-Roe America presents groups with new risk-management challenges, argues one industry lawyer. Abortion rights is an emotional and polarizing topic. As states enact new laws affecting those rights, a handful of groups have publicly changed their conference location in protest.

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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. nearly 7 million potential visitors and $12 billion in projected spending in 2023. When it comes to site selection for future events, Gal-Yam is adding visa processing times to his checklist. “We Over the summer, U.S.

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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.

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Adjusting Strategies to Changing Business Models

PCMA Convene

Alessandro Cortese Five years ago, the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) developed a site-selection strategy for its annual congress — which this year attracted more than 6,700 delegates in Vienna, Austria — that favored those destinations that recognized, in Clark’s words, that they had a challenge with cancer.

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