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Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract

Smart Meetings

Read More : Gen Z Meeting Planners Navigate Post-Covid Job Market “It’s going to be difficult to contract with hotels or destinations that you want to be in for the foreseeable future. All the way out to at least 2025 right now, maybe even 2026, depending on your group size, or the destination, or the hotel that you want to be in.”

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19 Event Trends That Will Shake Up Meetings & Group Business in 2019

Social Tables

A huge piece of the expected 5-10% increase in meetings and events demand is the escalating willingness of brands to invest in events as a marketing channel. In fact, in a recent event marketing survey , 52% of survey respondents said that event marketing drove more business value than other marketing channels. (To

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