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Top Challenges Facing the Meeting Planning Industry Right Now

The Castle Group

From a labor perspective, the hospitality industry was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic. This doesn’t mean you cannot deliver a quality experience to your audience, but labor challenges should be addressed realistically and factored into your planning process. Second, build efficiencies into your plan. Staffing / Service.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

Let’s face it, there’s a lot of paperwork involved in the meeting planning process. Transportation plans help planners identify how they’ll manage the movement of participants from the airport to hotel to meetings and offsite venues and if additional requirements, such as visas, might be required for attendee travel.

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5 Things Planners Can Learn from the Presidential Inauguration

SmartMeetings

Meeting and event planners probably don’t need a strategy that elaborate, but having a plan in place is paramount. On site visits, planners should ask hotels and venues about their crisis management plans. Are the hospitality staff informed, trained and well-practiced in case of an emergency?