The Castle Group
AUGUST 23, 2022
While many industries were able to shift to a remote workforce, hotels, restaurants and airlines faced major layoffs and demand fluctuations and are now playing catch up, hiring and training staff in a tight market. Work with hotel partners and other vendors to understand their weak spots. Staffing / Service.
SmartMeetings
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
To best be prepared and aligned with the hotel, it is important to address so you establish a shared agreement as it relates to the pandemic and its impact on a program. That language will then be shared with the hotel during the contracting process to come to a mutual agreement on terms. Now is not the time to skip a site visit.
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PCMA Convene
MARCH 1, 2018
Here’s why: Effectively, Marriott has announced a 30-percent reduction in revenue to those firms that have been booking Marriott-owned or Marriott franchise hotel properties for their clients. For many, their only choice when booking a hotel in the Marriott family will be to reduce the amount or level of services that they currently offer.
Connect Your Meetings
AUGUST 15, 2017
For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. Brett Sterenson, Hotel Lobbyists. “In-house
MeetingsNet
AUGUST 19, 2019
Gallery Slide description: Provides marketing, logistics, and management for events held at hotels. Gallery Slide description: Offers destination management, site selection, meeting planning, and brand marketing services, with a focus on corporate planning services to clients in the US, Mexico, and Caribbean.
Maritz Global Events
AUGUST 15, 2019
It affects everything from the site selection process right through to delivery. Both Talley and Goedegebuure agree that it takes the entire event community—from venues, hotels, DMCs and more—to help ensure guest safety. This has probably become—in discussions I’ve had with clients and colleagues—item number one.”.
SmartMeetings
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future?
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