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Booking Meeting Venues Site Unseen

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The virtual site tour for Excel London features a series of videos for different venues within the complex. But planners still face an immediate challenge: booking meeting venues while travel remains off the table for many organizations and destinations. We don’t always have the time or budget to look at all the venues.

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One Stop Shop Venues

Unique Venues

But savvy event planners look for “one stop shop” venues in order to make detail management a little easier. Check out our Top Picks for One Stop Shop Venues. These venues offer the convenience of one contact, one contract, and one price for meetings and events. Attention to detail!

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

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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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5 Earth Day Tips for Eco-Friendly Meeting Planners

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The National Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia , is doing its part to reduce the Beltway’s carbon footprint. To commemorate Earth Day, the center has identified five green trends for meeting planners to consider when booking a venue for their next Beltway event. The center, which offers 250 meeting rooms comprising 265,000 sq.

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How Redesigning a Hybrid Event’s Physical Space Led to Other Changes

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3 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, with a program online Nov. The site, he added, is “unique in that it gave me all of the room I needed to spread out or contract as needed based on COVID realities a year in advance.”. Produced by Lippman Connects, the in-person ECEF 21 will take place Nov. Courtesy Lippman Connects).

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Day in the Life of a Wedding & Event Planner with Madison Hummel

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I will create wedding design decks, create floor plans, correspond with vendors, review contracts, email clients, and so much more. I went and studied theatre at Virginia Tech but found about halfway through that I wanted a career where I could use my creativity and organizational skills. After that, I get to work.

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Solving for Pricing, Sponsorships, and Skills Challenges When Going Digital

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Joe Colangelo, CEO and cofounder of Arlington, Virginia–based Bear Analytics , a consulting and tech firm for associations and events, said that associations realize that they must pivot faster. Not all contracts can be canceled free and clear, and there are, of course, sunk costs associated with a canceled face-to-face event.