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Top Challenges Facing the Meeting Planning Industry Right Now

The Castle Group

This doesn’t mean you cannot deliver a quality experience to your audience, but labor challenges should be addressed realistically and factored into your planning process. Seek venues that have embraced mobile check in, online ordering and other technologies, and where the staff-to-guest ratio remains high. Sustainability.

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Conference Planning Software – How Technology Has Changed the Industry

Master the Event

I remember when I got my first bank card. The banks were talking about how soon, all of your financial information would be connected to that one little card. Bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages. There are some softwares available that can help you plan your entire conference, every little detail, from a to z.

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8 Dreamy Summer Venues

SmartMeetings

Booking a meeting at one of these ultra-dreamy venues is a great way to start planning. along the Black Banks River. Fire pits, a wooden boardwalk and 500-person capacity make the outdoor venue a summertime delight. The venue can fit up to 200 standing or seated. After all, ‘tis the season to get outdoors !

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Think Outside the Ballroom: 5 Unconventional Event Venues

SmartMeetings

Inject a jolt of variety into your roster of meeting venues to keep attendees engaged and excited before, during and after the event. To continue the presidential theme, plan an excursion to George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, a mere 12 miles away. Jane’s Carousel, Brooklyn. Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York.

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How To Create Your Event Budget

Endless Events

Don’t stop at just the big-ticket items like your venue, food and beverage, and AV (although these do make it on the list). And once you get there, will it be a $100 cab ride to the venue? What should you not hack off the budget OR always plan for when it comes to AV needs? Explore all your venue options. Luxury hotels.

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Short Lead Times?-?A Handbook for Event Planners

Hubilo Blog

According to C&IT magazine’s article , here are a few thoughts expressed by the players in the event industry: Clients, event planners, and venue partners have set the bar at this level collectively by being able to deliver. Clare Moses (Director, Barclays Personal and Corporate Banking). It’s a game changer.?—? Toronto).

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Game Changers: Sporting Incentive Trips

SmartMeetings

Some competitions take place at the same venue every year, as in the case of the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Open, held at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York, in late August through early September, and the Masters golf tournament, held at Georgia’s Augusta National Golf Club in April.

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