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Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract

Smart Meetings

But entering a new relationship with a hotel usually comes with a detailed contract of agreements and stipulations. State of the Market Based on the current state of the market, Payne has seen a shift occur due to the events that transpired during Covid-19. Smart Meetings chatted with Cheryl M.

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Nineteen Group commits to NEC until 2025

Event Industry News

Nineteen Group has signed a contract to bring its portfolio of shows to NEC Birmingham until 2025. Most […]

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Managing Client Expectations in the Current Market

MeetingsNet

Let’s face it, being on either side of the table in hotel-contract negotiations is tough these days. Planners are in a hotel-market mess, with limited availability, high food costs, and short-staffed properties, many of which are still trying to pull their bottom line back from the trash after being closed for months in 2020.

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Q&A: San Francisco Travel Association Discusses Event Safety and Business

Event Marketer

We hopped on a call with Nicole Rogers, executive vp and chief sales officer for San Francisco Travel, the City and County of San Francisco’s official destination marketing organization, for a lengthy conversation about the realities the city is facing, the event business, and how the city is working to keep events and event attendees safe.

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Booking Group Business in the Future of Meetings

SmartMeetings

It was deemed “better than nothing,” but if used, it was suggested that this option should accompany a clause in the contract that allows an in-person site inspection at a future date. 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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Outstanding start to 2023 follows record year at Wyboston Lakes Resort

Prestige Events Magazine

The Resort already has contracted bookings for more than 50 per cent of its 2023 budget, and that is greater than it achieved in the whole of 2018. Bookings and prospects for 2024 and 2025 are also very strong. Wyboston Lakes Resort has made an outstanding start to 2023 following a year of record results in 2022.

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IMEX 22 Welcomed Record Number of Attendees

Smart Meetings

The project is scheduled to open in 2025 and will complement the existing 200,000 sq. Jamaica Tourist Board Director of Tourism Donovan White shared his optimism about the outlook for the meetings industry in the country at a press conference and announced, new airline service from key markets. at the iconic resort. “At

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