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EventBooking shortlisted for the Event Technology Awards 2020

Event Industry News

EventBooking was founded 1999 by John Platillero, who saw the need for a way for venues to book and manage events online. His vision was a simple but powerful one—to create a tool for venue professionals to access, manage, and share event information from anywhere in real time. Not a novel concept today, but it was for the late 1990s.

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AEG Presents Special Event Venues (AEGSEV) Are Springing Back to Life

Unique Venues

AEG Presents Special Event Venues (AEGSEV) Are Springing Back to Life. progresses forward in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, live event venues are getting ready to reopen. The talent buyers, general managers and sales team all work together to make mutually beneficial decisions for the venues and the clients.

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How have you adjusted your business to be ready when events begin to open back up?

Eventmobi

Evaluating Events: Square Footage – Number of guests on the dance floor, number of guests at each table, matching up new events: guest count with venue square footage What we need from our vendors – what precautions are they taking? What we need from our venues – what precautions are they taking? we are all planning without parameters.

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7 Smart Moves at Hotel Crescent Court and More

Smart Meetings

He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. His background is in venue operations, large-scale event management, emergency response, guest services and budget management. Maytas Jiwalai Jiwalai joined ConferenceDirect as director of global accounts.

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Ensuring Compliance During COVID at In-Person Events

PCMA Convene

A new Pandemic Compliance Advisor course is designed to help planners ensure best practices for the safest execution of in-person events, It covers, among other topics, working with venues on everything from sanitation to F&B considerations to traffic flow.

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The COVID-19 Testing Conundrum

PCMA Convene

Total Testing Solutions provides testing services at venues as well as pop-up testing sites for events. CES provided at-home Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 tests at its January 2022 convention in Las Vegas, and asked attendees to complete them at least 24 hours before entering a CES venue. Courtesy Total Testing Solutions). Angie Silberhorn.

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5 Challenges Your Event Planning Classes WON’T Prepare You For

QC Event School

For example, I used Google Docs originally to draft contracts, and Google Sheets to maintain budgets. Contracts and the important components that should be in them. Contracts have been my pain AND best friend in my business life. With QC Event School, you learn that contracts are an important component of your business.