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.

Hotels 40

Hotels Negotiating Meetings Airlines 40

Connect Your Meetings

JULY 18, 2019

Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) Event Disruption Study. She plays an integral role for the company through event design and plan formulation, event oversight, vendor and venue contract negotiations and management, and site selection for meetings and event. ITA Group Ensuring Safe & Secure Practices. _.

Risk Management 54

Risk Management Management 2013 Site Selections 54

SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Some topics are evergreen—negotiation, experience design, trends. The curriculum for the graduate program you are launching with San Diego State includes stakeholder management, finance fundamentals and demonstrating ROE (Return on Experience), but nothing on site selection or F&B. How has that changed over time?

Education 61

Education Meetings 2010 Financial 61

Capterra Event Management

APRIL 25, 2017

Site Selection. Surveys and studies conducted by major event planners have conducted plenty of research into this subject. If you are able to negotiate beneficial contracts with your vendors, you will minimize your need to store resources. Topics: Event Life Cycle. Event Types. Event Proposals. Event Design Process.

Event Planning 100

Event Planning Insurance Contracts Event Management 100

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Nominated by Robyn Jones, CMP, Conference Manager, Association for Asian Studies — “Ricky Hopkins is our account manager, and assists us with the site-selection process. But I would like to nominate Ricky for what he does for us outside of contract negotiation.

2017 76

2017 Trade Shows Insurance Food and Beverage 76