Hotels Marketing Negotiating Site Selections 
MeetingsNet
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
A veteran planner discusses how she nudges hotels to act on her requests for proposal: She gives to get. Some organizations require more concessions, others want to be in a specific destination regardless of the cost, and still others are in a short-term booking situation that requires casting a wide net for offers in a compressed market.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Denise Mope Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas’s Uptown neighborhood added Mope as director of sales and marketing. He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. He climbed the ladder from director of operations at the hotel.
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SmartMeetings
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Do you start earlier than usual in the hope of finding better availability given the compression of the 2022 market? Or, do you hold off so that you can secure a location within a shorter window of time to program dates, potentially giving a more realistic look at any Covid-related impacts to the selected destination?
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Rising hotel and airline costs , along with increasing demand for more and longer meetings is pressuring planners to make critical choices to stay in strict budgets, according to a new study by American Express Meetings & Events. Negotiating Room. Only 38 percent said they’d be willing to negotiate that.
Event Leadership Institute
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Mind your money with battles over escrow deposits to suppliers and more room to negotiate venue commissions. So if a convention hotel says they had a great June, that means they had a lot of events occur in June, all of which were likely booked months or years prior. Hotels will be converted to apartments. Leisure Travel.
SmartMeetings
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
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Plan Your Meetings
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
After hearing advice from the hotel reps and other planners at her table, a CVB salesperson asked her what kind of help she needed. “I I need help getting recommendations for hotels and local vendors,” the executive assistant added. “I I need help doing destination research,” she said. “I I could help with that,” the CVB rep said. “I
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