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5 tips for evaluating safety during site selection

Plan Your Meetings

You are far more likely to have someone at your conference suffer a medical issue, such as a cardiac event, or a minor accident, such as a trip and fall, than you are an active shooter. A rule of meeting safety is ensuring the space, facility or venue is free from harm and offers components and measures that keep it free from harm.

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Conference Planning Seattle – Here We Come…

Master the Event

Conference Planning Seattle – So Much to See and Do…. When planning a conference in Seattle there really is so much to choose from. A conference planners dream. The best bet when conference planning in Seattle is to work with an event and convention planning company that will work with you and get you on the right path.

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4 Top Tips for Picking a Safe, Secure Hotel Site

SmartMeetings

For meeting professionals, these nerve-pulsating newscasts could be creating extra stressors, as those items might also influence our conferences, such as weather that grounds planes or sicknesses that prevent travel. Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer.

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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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The Road Ahead: What’s In Store for the Event Industry In 2021 & Beyond – Part Two In-Person Events

Event Leadership Institute

Mind your money with battles over escrow deposits to suppliers and more room to negotiate venue commissions. Most planners answering them have no idea, while most of the venues and other sell-side suppliers are way too optimistic, with little to base it on. All of this will make managing venue guarantees more challenging.

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2019 ASAE Preview: 8 Ways to Enjoy Columbus, Ohio

Smart Meetings

If you haven’t already, it’s time to get to the drawing board to book off-site activities and venues for next August 10 to 13. Smart Meetings recently went on a FAM trip hosted by Experience Columbus to scope out the area and make your site selection job that much easier. Get Touristy. Experience Columbus.

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16 Event Resources to Plan Your Next Great Event

Capterra Event Management

It has a slight focus on conferences and corporate events, but contains lots of helpful content for everyone. Conferences that Work. It’s not the prettiest of sites, but Adrian Segar is an event industry expert with lots of insight. It also includes rankings of top meeting hotels and destinations. Smart Meetings.