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First Class: Meet the Inaugural 15 Over 50

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Director of Conventions & Meetings. Acworth, Georgia. Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Destination Management Connection. Senior Director of Conference and Events Management. Manager, Meetings/Events & Exhibits. Michael Downs, CAE, CMP.

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Event-Contract Sticking Points: A Practical Approach

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Three industry veterans share their advice on crafting contract terms and clauses that meet the needs of host groups, not just host venues. Right now, the meetings industry’s landscape features high demand, rising prices, and hotel reps’ relative inexperience with meetings, all of which make planners’ jobs more difficult than ever.

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Smart Moves in South Carolina, Missouri and More

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Shaffer has also been association and corporate sales manager at The DeSoto Savannah in Georgia, sales manager for Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Airport Hotel & Convention Center and more. Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Tiffany Alves Hafer.

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Your Favorite Meeting Venues in the South

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“It is fairly new and the space is large and well thought out,” says Cory Brooks, CMP, managing partner of Specialty Planners International. Jekyll Island Convention Center is a “beautiful building” with “good customer service,” says Rebecca DeShazo, CMP Director of Association Services of the Georgia Association of Realtors.

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Smart Moves in California, Dallas and More

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Taylor Fry and Diego Vervloet Taylor Fry (left) and Deigo Vervloet (right) Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) named Fry director of national accounts and Vervloet as meeting and convention services manager. Fry previously worked as national sales manager for Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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Smart Moves in London, Miami and More

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He also held leading roles with The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin; The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island and The Cloister and The Lodge at Sea Island in Georgia. Daniel Tiepelman Tiepelman is vice president of operations and asset management for Cort Events.

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Smart Moves in Dallas, Turkey and More

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Buchanan previously worked as Visit San Antonio’s national sales manager, in addition to other roles within the organization. Before joining Visit San Antonio, Buchanan worked as event manager for Henry B. Before her promotion, Bippert worked as Visit San Antonio’s destination experience manager.

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