Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

To find out what changing occupancy rates across the country will mean for booking hotels in the future, CoStar Group Director of Hospitality Analytics Daryl Cronk shared insights from the STARreport , the essential measure of the health of the hospitality industry. That gave everyone something valuable to take home.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Destinations International Large Market Roundtable outlined initiatives to establish Destination Booking Agreement Guidelines to create certainty for all parties. Once a legally binding contract is in place, it sets the stage for easier conversations,” said Dustin Arnhem, senior vice president of sales with Visit Baltimore.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. In mid-February, occupancy was 66%, down only 9% from the same week in 2019. ADR was 10% higher than the same time in 2019. However, revenue was up.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Oxford Economics’ Savelli explained that during past recessions, room demand overreacted, with sometimes twice as much of a contraction as the economy overall. Let’s take a deeper dive into why events and business travel might float above the turbulence. Travel Priorities First, some history. Savelli is not alone in that observation.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

New at Frankfurt was a Listening Lab staffed by trained coaches where people could book 20 minutes to talk about personal or business issues with professional listeners instructed to ask probing questions. Right now, the contract is through 2025, but we’re already talking about continuing,” she said.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 23, 2022

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the events industry had a $1,135.4 Will distinguishes between making the active choice not to book a venue and actively boycotting that venue. Have you put language into your contracts regarding hot-button issues? But should event planners boycott? . she concludes. We want to hear your response and questions!

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to a Skift study analysing the industry’s performance with figures from 2019 to the present day, the sector still stands at 86% of the level recorded in 2019. However, the industry is recovering strongly, especially compared to previous crises. “The recovery from the health crisis has not been the same.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 15, 2022

When I booked Orlando in 2016, I never would’ve thought we would’ve been in this position [today with the overturning of Roe v. I do like that there are opportunities to put clauses in contracts. We will not contract with any venue that won’t accept that clause.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NYC & Company reported at IMEX that the destination expects to recover 85% of its record 2019 visitation, welcoming 56.7 million visitors by the end of 2022.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. Every RFP is unique,” she says.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Prior to establishing the three day Swiss Sustainability Forum, NZZ Connect started with a precursor event called Circular Economy Entrepreneurs in 2019 in Langenthal, a city in Canton Bern. Upon inception in 2019, the event was first called Circular Economy Entrepreneurs because circular economy is a model with a future focused approach.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 23, 2020

On a more exciting note, today we’re covering MeetingsNet best stories of 2019. Planners Salary Survey 2019” And then the last one is “Study Finds One in Four Tech-Conference Speakers are Women” Hurricane Dorian Affects the Bahamas Unevenly. Because where else would you get the best ideas and insights?

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

Meetings Today Meetings Today offers monthly print and digital publications, industry news, blog posts, webinars, videos, podcasts, books, and educational resources for meeting and event planners. In 2019, the ILEA Board of Governors worked with the CSEP Certification Committee to review and enhance the CSEP program.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Amplify Local program, last held in person, launched in 2019, was a series of half-day programs in 20 different cities to keep users connected. For Workiva, the goal is to accelerate bookings and expand awareness of new products and releases. On-demand viewing for registrants was available for 30 days.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JUNE 13, 2022

And this is in addition to annual events that were already on the books for this year and next.” It used to be ‘in the year for the year,’ and now for all of us doing 3x the sourcing compared to 2019 levels, it is ‘in the month for the month,’ too, which presents additional challenges on all sides. And share it!

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 26, 2018

Shop the Clearance Aisle If you want the best deals and can be flexible, wait to book until 90 days before your meeting dates. Think and Source Competitively If booking a top-tier city is a priority, you can’t wait until 90 days out—not even close. The best rates, dates, and space in 2018 have already been booked.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In the recent earnings results in the first half of 2019, Meliá PRO saw sales improve by 26.8% Book your events in 374 hotels in 40 countries on 4 continents under the brands Meliá, Gran Meliá, ME by Meliá, Paradisus, Innside by Meliá, TRYP by Wyndham, Sol Hotels and Club Meliá. Access flexible and profitable booking.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. Look at State Department travel advisories , not just at the time you book the event but historical warnings for the time of year your event will be held. Price and availability are the main considerations when choosing a venue, but Tyra Hilliard, Esq., Are any controversial?

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Even for planners at the top of their game, the current meeting climate has created new levels of stress—the result of severe hotel booking compression, high turnover in supplier staff, and short meeting lead times. For example, why do contracts that they used to have two or three months to consider now need to be signed within weeks?

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 16, 2021

In contrast, there’s also an article about booking and ticketing for non-IATA agencies which describes other ways to sell flights. Airline sales summary 2019, source: ARC. In short, the process of flight reservation involves two stages: booking and ticketing. The flight booking algorithm explained.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NYC & Company reported at IMEX that the destination expects to recover 85% of its record 2019 visitation, welcoming 56.7 million visitors by the end of 2022.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

Meetings Today Meetings Today offers monthly print and digital publications, industry news, blog posts, webinars, videos, podcasts, books, and educational resources for meeting and event planners. In 2019, the ILEA Board of Governors worked with the CSEP Certification Committee to review and enhance the CSEP program.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

With so many online booking platforms available, one may wonder: does a company really need external assistance? Why don’t employees look for the best prices, book their flights and hotels, and then submit reimbursement requests all by themselves? It became possible after the latest upgrade of the company’s online booking platform Neo.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

And now here we are finally January 2019 where they’re announcing Encore Event Technologies. You can negotiate these contracts. But it’s in the contract is exclusive provider and that was non-negotiable. B, to bring your AV company in earlier and have these discussions before you book the venue.

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Business Traveler USA

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Wyndham says The Meetings Collection has been created to “offer rewarding solutions and a simple, streamlined way to book multi-year meetings at different hotels across the collection”. Wyndham’s initiative comes as meetings and events are showing steady and accelerating recovery nearing 2019 levels. wyndhamhotels.com.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With pent-up demand, higher fuel costs, and labor shortages, the meeting cost per attendee is a whopping 25% higher than it was in 2019, according to the 2023 Global Business Travel Forecast , released this month by travel management company CWT and the Global Business Travel Association. Hotel Contracting Savings.

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Bizzaboo

AUGUST 30, 2023

Centralize Documentation Keeping all event-related documents, contracts, and communications in one central location. By centralizing documentation, planners create a single source of truth where every detail resides, from contracts and floor plans to attendee lists and feedback forms. So start as early as possible.

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Creative Group Inc

MAY 2, 2023

In today’s super-heated market, suppliers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to contract negotiations. From sourcing to execution, here are tips to help you stretch your event dollars : Destinations and Hotels Hotel demand is higher than ever, and room rates in 2023 have risen nearly 20 % compared to 2019. Review them carefully.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

Flight consolidators are brokers that book airline seats in bulk at discount rates and then resell them to travel agencies. It’s worth noting that usually consolidators purchase all the allocated seats only after a contracted number of travelers pay for them. Booking engines out of the box. Access to major GDSs.

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Social Tables

MAY 16, 2019

Book an officiant. Book your florist. Book your rehearsal and rehearsal-dinner venues. Popular wedding invitation trends for 2019 include fun details like wax seals and customized stamps as well as full photo cards. Reserve your venues. Make rental reservations for any lighting, portable toilets, set-up equipment, etc.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 20, 2021

For Susan Kushner, president and CFO of Kushner & Associates, which organized transportation for the 2019 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, there was no there was no backup plan to pivot to during the pandemic. Made a profit, had good people who earned good salaries. Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2021

Steps of interline booking flow. For the most part, the interline booking processes are managed by a Global Distribution System ( GDS ) and a passenger service system ( PSS ) or central reservation system (CRS) of the validating airline. How interline booking works. That’s how it happens, step by step. Itinerary construction.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 31, 2022

The late Alvin Toffler, whose 1970 book Future Shock established him as one of the world’s foremost futurists, said we can only envision our future by tapping into our human capacity for creativity. Will face-to-face event attendance return to 2019 levels soon? It helps you not go back to 2019 but create what 2022 or 2025 should be.”.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 20, 2022

free tickets (only a small amount of taxes and carrier-imposed fees have to be paid), flight class upgrades, access to airport lounges, access to fast-track service, extra baggage allowance, priority booking, travel products, and other rewards, discounts, and insider perks. Those include. Connectivity with a partner network.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). So, where do these bookings come from? Book hotel rooms. Hotel booking requests are free! Booking, booking cancellations, and modifications.

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Social Tables

MAY 14, 2019

With some savvy skills and a side of confidence, negotiating a venue contract can lead to a final agreement that’s much more favorable than what was in the initial proposal. Accountant/Treasurer Events have to both go by the book and keep everything on the books. In most cases, the details of the proposal aren’t set in stone.

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