Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 5, 2017

For example, Blue Grass Airport (LEX) serves 18 non-stop destinations via four airlines—Allegiant, American, Delta and United. A more intimate airport also can work with meeting planners and airlines to ensure your conference travelers are looked after. Blue Grass Airport will gladly meet with planners to determine popular flight routes and can reach out to airline partners to inform them of your event needs. Attendee experience Vendor and site selection second-tier cities

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Rising hotel and airline costs , along with increasing demand for more and longer meetings is pressuring planners to make critical choices to stay in strict budgets, according to a new study by American Express Meetings & Events. Site selection often requires some give and take on both sides of the negotiating table.

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The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

While many industries were able to shift to a remote workforce, hotels, restaurants and airlines faced major layoffs and demand fluctuations and are now playing catch up, hiring and training staff in a tight market.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. Previously, he worked for American Airlines Arena and Heat Group as senior event manager and event staffing manager. More : 6 Smart Moves: Wellness Edition. Denise Mope Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas’s Uptown neighborhood added Mope as director of sales and marketing. Most recently, she held the same title at The Westin Dallas Downtown.

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The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

While many industries were able to shift to a remote workforce, hotels, restaurants and airlines faced major layoffs and demand fluctuations and are now playing catch up, hiring and training staff in a tight market.

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Planner WIre

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

When you are first starting the site selection process, most planners will meet with event stakeholders and go over a list of objectives, toss out a few potential destinations, and maybe put together a loose budget. For example, when looking at info on flights you can see the distance and flight time as well as what airline has direct flights. Travel adds up in many ways. It can be measured in Dollars, Euros, or Rupees and in other ways like miles, meals, or meetings.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I undertake dozens of activities to assure a successful meeting, including visiting potential sites, walking the halls and inspecting the actual facilities, even going up to the rooms—all to ensure your satisfaction when you actually stay there for three or four days. I work behind the scenes with airlines, shuttle services and so forth. Hand in hand with the site selection is the big job of number crunching.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In the second of our series on The Promiseland Project, we’re on site for the initiative’s inaugural event to see how a big idea about meaningful conversation plays out in a tiny North Dakota town. The messages for the 2018 mid-term election reached something of a fever pitch in the country’s fourth-smallest state in terms of population, North Dakota, the site of one of the most-watched races for the Senate. While Union Parish is another rural area, future sites will be cities. “As

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

GCG Event Partners is the leading national resource for nationwide On-Site Event Professionals. Headquartered in Stoneham, Massachusetts, they provide fully qualified on-site event management services throughout the U.S. Looking for an event or experiential marketing agency?

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