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Top 5 tips to negotiating the best event venue price

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There are a few tricks to negotiating venue costs. We’ve tracked down some tips to help event organizers keep their venue costs as low as possible. However, if you truly have set a budget for your venue costs this allows you to quickly cut to the chase with a possible venue. Compare different venues.

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You Can Negotiate Away Annoying Hotel Fees

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In other words, hotels and resorts saw what airlines were doing and started figuring out their own ways to increase revenue beyond the basic fare —or, in this case, the room rate. I have heard of planners negotiating out this fee,” says Lauren Wolfe, a lawyer who publishes the website killresortfees.com. Last year, the U.S.

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BENEFITS OF HOSTING A WINTER MEETING

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This provides the meeting planner an opportunity to negotiate with a four or five star hotel where otherwise, say July or August, he or she may have had to negotiate with a three-star property. Off-Site venues (museums, galleries etc.) are also quiet and, therefore, the meeting planner has the upper hand when negotiating rates.

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How to Manage Outsize Hospitality Budget Inflation

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Underwood shared that, overall, hotel rates are up 38% since before the pandemic and properties are less likely to negotiate day rates or minimums than pre-Covid as they are under pressure from increased labor and operating costs. The lack of everything from airline pilots to Uber and coach drivers are challenging last-mile logistics. .

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Event Contract Considerations for 2021

SmartMeetings

In speaking with Ty Sheaks, attorney at McCathern , LLC, we found out how meeting professionals and venues are reacting to the fluctuating legal landscape of safety protocols and signage, as well as what questions we should be asking moving forward. Waiving Responsibility. We’ll have to watch that closely,” he says. Who keeps that data?

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75% of travel managers in Europe expect 2022 business travel volume to surpass 2019 levels according to new Cvent report

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Whilst this increase is partly attributed to rising airline and hotel costs within the sector, corporate travel managers also cite other considerations including business travel being recognised as an instrumental way to expand sales – therefore increased budget is required to help achieve targets. Changing programme priorities.

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Event Contract Considerations for 2021

SmartMeetings

In speaking with Ty Sheaks, attorney at McCathern , LLC, we found out how meeting professionals and venues are reacting to the fluctuating legal landscape of safety protocols and signage, as well as what questions we should be asking moving forward. Waiving Responsibility. We’ll have to watch that closely,” he says. Who keeps that data?