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You’re Paying Too Much Interest On Your Conference Organizational Debt

Velvet Chainsaw

Your conference organizational debt includes the static roles, traditional structures, outdated models, long-established practices, antiquated procedures and legacy policies that prevent your organization from adapting to evolving markets, technology and society. Consider your organization’s conference site selection process.

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28th Annual Meetings Market Survey: Slower Growth Ahead

PCMA Convene

In fact, most saw continued stability and growth for their events — and many also blamed the strong economy — which in turn creates a seller’s market — for making their job more challenging. continued to lose market share, with overseas travel to the U.S. The economic verdict in Davos, according to Bloomberg ? 30 — is that the U.S.

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New Contract Essentials in an Ever-Changing Environment

SmartMeetings

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?

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Will Your Meetings Ever Have a Carbon Budget?

MeetingsNet

Corporate travel departments are known to be a few steps ahead of their meeting department cousins in terms of putting managed-spend programs in place, and over the years, the Global Business Travel Association has often driven understanding of those strategies.

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A Host Facility’s Energy Sources: What Planners Should Know

MeetingsNet

For planners who want to include a venue’s power source in their site selection process, Julia Spangler, chief of sustainability consultancy Ecosystem Events, says that “the best source of information is the utility company connected to the venue.

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Crisis Communication: Tips for Event Safety

Event Leadership Institute

One of the advantages of putting together a crisis communication plan (CCP) is how much it can actually relieve the pressure of managing an unknown (or even a known) safety incident. A CCP may include staff from all areas of the organization, such as executives, marketing & communication, legal, HR, and subject matter experts.

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Hitting the Mark with Your Event RFPs

MeetingsNet

Tanna Pearman, meeting broker for Las Vegas-based Meetings Made Easy, handles site selection and contracting for both corporate and association clients, which means her approach to building RFPs focuses on different elements of each meeting to match a given destination and its various hotels.