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Contracts and Negotiations Amid Covid: Best of What’s Worked in 2021

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With the pandemic and public concern fluctuating in the midst of uncertainty, event planners and professionals are left with an enormous responsibility to prepare themselves, their guests and their contracts for whatever comes next. Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era. But we’ve anticipated this.

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Best of 2021: Career Accelerator Webinars

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Throughout the year, Smart Meetings has invited professionals from different corners of the event planning world to impart their knowledge. There are several ways to do this, which includes priming your chat box, changing up the flow of your virtual events and making it intimate, all of which is expanded upon in this webinar.

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Experts: Travel Industry Could Coast Through Recession

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“This is an e ngineered recession, a recession by design,” said Christian Savelli, director of tourism economics with Oxford Economics, speaking at IACC Americas Knowledge Exchange this week in Durham, North Carolina. Let’s take a deeper dive into why events and business travel might float above the turbulence.

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Unique Experiences - Volume 4

Unique Venues

Don’t Just Plan an Event…Plan an EXPERIENCE! They have everything you need for a successful event - plus offer unique experiences that your guests will remember for years to come. Turn Your Next Event into a Beach Getaway. Take a Trip up the North Shore to Misselwood. By Brian Finn.

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Tough Calls

PCMA Convene

On April 4, days after North Carolina repealed its controversial “bathroom bill” — House Bill 2 (HB2), which restricted which public bathroom transgender people could use — the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) announced that it would no longer blacklist the state from hosting its championship events.

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3 Alternatives to Travel Ban Wars Planners Need to Know

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As if planning weren’t difficult enough, travel bans, restrictions and advisories being issued through legislation , press release and/or tweet can make deciding where to hold an event seem like navigating a mine field—blind folded. In March, NCAA made its feelings known to North Carolina legislators who voted to amend the controversial bill.

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California Travel Ban Provokes Scorn and Cancellations

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A website in Alabama speculated state-funded California collegiate sports teams might not be able to travel to recruit athletes in banned states or attend major sporting events such as the 2018–2019 NCAA College Football Playoff semifinal game planned for Dallas. It just leads to more and more bad announcements.”

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