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How to Navigate a Successful Site Visit

EventMB

Skift Take: As hoteliers and venue operators struggle to conduct quality post-pandemic site visits, planners are having to expend more time and effort to ensure successful site selection. Louise Felsher Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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What Planners Want in Site Selection Technology

MeetingsNet

A recent GBTA Foundation study finds that, while the technology exists to help meeting professionals throughout the site-sourcing process, just over half—57 percent—say they currently use meeting management technology to plan their events. read more.

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Meeting Destination Selection: 10 Questions To Ask Your CVB

EventMB

More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) can be incredibly helpful in site selection and support in making your event happen in their destination. This is a sponsored post by Meetings + Conventions Calgary.

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Will Your Meetings Ever Have a Carbon Budget?

MeetingsNet

Corporate travel departments are known to be a few steps ahead of their meeting department cousins in terms of putting managed-spend programs in place, and over the years, the Global Business Travel Association has often driven understanding of those strategies.

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5 Event Management Principles Every Planner Should Know (But Most Don’t)

Event Leadership Institute

That about sums up where we are in event education. ELI runs a 10 week online course on Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals. Here are five things Kevin will teach in the course that most event planners should have mastered, but that many have not. Learning proper project management skills.

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2019 40 Under 40: Natasha Stamper Pedigo, The Asphalt Institute

Connect Your Meetings

Natasha Stamper Pedigo, CMP, 38, works in Lexington, Kentucky, as a meeting planner and event manager at The Asphalt Institute. A s a 2019 40 Under 40 honoree, Pedigo discusses her passion for the events industry. I am responsible for every aspect of the event. Connect with Pedigo on Instagram. .

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7 Smart Moves at Hotel Crescent Court and More

Smart Meetings

Previously, she was director of sales and revenue at The Joule in Dallas as well as reservations and revenue manager at The Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida, and The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market.

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