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Budgets Versus Costs: A Losing Battle?

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Based on several hundred planner responses, MPI’s latest industry outlook finds that rising prices have strained meeting budgets, and will likely continue to do so into 2024. Heading up the list is food and beverage, where 55 percent of planners have dealt with costs that are at least 10 percent higher than they were one year prior.

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Smart Moves in South Carolina, Missouri and More

Smart Meetings

Gibson also has years of food and beverage experience, having worked as kitchen manager and in other restaurant management positions in New Hampshire. Dallas hospitality management company Makeready added Hafer to the team as director of global group sales. Tiffany Alves Hafer. Kimberly McCarden Foster, CTE.

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Highlights from IMEX America 2016

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How shifting trends will impact meetings and hotels in 2017 was the hot topic debated by a panel of five meetings and hospitality leaders led by Dan Berger from Social Tables. Health & Wellness. The Be Well program carried on the success of last year’s health and wellness initiatives at IMEX America.

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