Connect Your Meetings

JULY 18, 2019

As a planner, who is my main point of contact on-site during an emergency? Where are your evacuation meeting locations? Where are fire extinguishers, first aid kits and automatic electronic defibrillators (AEDs) located on-site? ITA Group Ensuring Safe & Secure Practices. _. How will I be notified of an emergency?

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Risk Management Management 2013 Site Selections 54

Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mind your money with battles over escrow deposits to suppliers and more room to negotiate venue commissions. Further, just because some groups decide to move forward with an in-person event doesn’t mean it is safe or appropriate or worth the risk for everyone else. Outlier examples don’t prove or disprove a hypothesis. Reverse Hybrids.’

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2021 Site Selections Contracts Venues 111

Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

On an ongoing basis, Plan Your Meetings holds industry-challenges-and-solutions roundtables to give planners and suppliers a chance to talk honestly (and anonymously) about their challenges and brainstorm about potential solutions. And 50 percent of them had been planning meetings for more than 15 years. How much do you charge?”

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Site Selections Negotiating Hotels Contracts 28

Capterra Event Management

APRIL 25, 2017

Even if you have previous experience organizing events for a company, organization, or local group, it is always best to have some formal certification which solidifies your experience for clients. Venue Selection. Site Selection. Includes conferences, meetings, graduations. Topics: Budgeting. Aesthetics.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 3, 2017

It was March 31, 2016, and ACA’s Governing Council was meeting in Montreal as part of ACA’s 2016 Conference & Expo. I did not put the name of the organization on there, just really the specs,” Hayes said, “and explained that there was a possibility that we would be relocating our meeting.”. Earlier that year, on Feb.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

In late January, Marriott International reduced payouts to third-party planning groups with a 3-percent cut to the long-established 10-percent commission structure. . On one side, site-selection companies allow hotels to run leaner. In any given year, site-selection companies book hundreds of millions of room revenue dollars.

Site Selections 67

Site Selections Food and Beverage Contracts Negotiating 67

SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2017

Much of the meeting and event planning industry only recently began evaluating its impact on the LGBT community. Even though you might assume that your meetings and events are free of LGBT influence, there’s always an effect. Apply the “Force Majeure/Excuse of Performance” clause : Demand this clause during negotiation.

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Meetings Site Selections Negotiating Speakers 77

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

In participating in the nominating process for our Best in Show awards program this year, DeBolt, director of meetings and events for PLM World, singled out Roberta Tisdul, CMP, senior convention services manager for Visit Indy, in our Convention Services/CVB category. Then she had more to say. Teamwork seemed to be a theme this year.

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2017 Trade Shows Insurance Food and Beverage 76

MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

Here’s what happened and what meeting pros can learn from it. The Philadelphia Marriott Downtown’s decision to host the Moms for Liberty national convention has lawmakers asking questions, and raises important risk management issues for meeting professionals to consider. What If Your Group Was Booked There? Grimes, Esq.

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Risk Management Hotels Contracts Site Selections 111

PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

GILBERT National political conventions are the Super Bowl of meetings and conventions; it doesn’t get any bigger and better than this for a meetings and conventions destination. And then of course, the convention center — the convention center is going to be used for caucus meetings; it will also be used for staff and office space.

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Site Selections 2014 2016 Hotels 56

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

There’s continually a lot of give and take and continually a lot of negotiation. The first strategy meeting was with the city and the city leaders,” said Colette Jones, Destination Cleveland’s vice president of marketing. that February to present to the Republican National Committee’s Site Selection Committee.

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