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APRIL 29, 2019

Shreveport/Bossier, Louisiana. Director of Conventions & Meetings. Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Destination Management Connection. Senior Director of Conference and Events Management. Manager, Meetings/Events & Exhibits. Shreveport-Bossier CVB.

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MAY 20, 2019

Event organizers and other meeting professionals have a duty of care to ensure the safety and security of event participants. The likelihood of an earthquake in Louisiana would be low as a threat potential, while a hurricane would be high. 4 phases of risk management. According to Reuters (Sept. Download it.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

The flooding in Louisiana is being called the worst natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, leaving at least 13 people dead and driving tens of thousands more from their homes in and around Baton Rouge. So your meetings and events business hasn’t really been disrupted? How are things going?

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JUNE 18, 2018

Or perhaps a two-week-long riot (Baltimore 2015) prevents your supplier from meeting a key deadline. But, how many planners have thought to consider a “rain event” that dumps almost two feet of water in 24 hours, such as flooding in Louisiana in August 2016 or Hurricane Matthew, which left most of the community of Lumberton, N.C.,

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Or perhaps a two-week-long riot (Baltimore 2015) prevents your supplier from meeting a key deadline. But, how many planners have thought to consider a “rain event” that dumps almost two feet of water in 24 hours, such as flooding in Louisiana in August 2016 or Hurricane Matthew, which left most of the community of Lumberton, N.C.,

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

That would be Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm in late August before moving along the Gulf Coast to Louisiana. Did you have any major meeting or convention business in the city at that time? Did Houston’s meetings infrastructure suffer any major damage? Then, on Thursday [Aug.

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