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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Who’s Booking : Hyatt is seeing a huge increase in leads from third-party RFP platforms like Cvent, and site selection companies like HelmsBriscoe. What They’re Booking : Small meetings and local events are coming back first, followed by regional and then national events. San Francisco and Chicago.

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Seven Reasons to Book Now for Your 2024 Event

Blue Spark Event Design

This article reviews the seven reasons to book now for your 2024 event. We recommend all of our clients who are looking to book in 2024 and beyond to start immediately, and here’s why: 7 Top Reasons to Book Your Event in 2024 Right Now: Venue and hotel availability (Site selection and negotiation).

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2019 ASAE Preview: 8 Ways to Enjoy Columbus, Ohio

Smart Meetings

They estimate that 20 percent of the nearly 6,000 attendees will book their own group’s convention there within five years. If you haven’t already, it’s time to get to the drawing board to book off-site activities and venues for next August 10 to 13.

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Cvent: Q3 RFPs Much Higher

Smart Meetings

Bad news for planners: Venue selection may be getting more competitive. Cvent’s first quarterly Group Business Outlook found that a significantly higher number of RFPs for future bookings were submitted in the third quarter of 2018 than during the same period last year. On average, RFPs have grown by 11.4 percent in the past 12 months.

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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. Every RFP is unique,” she says.

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Navigating How to Move Forward After the Dobbs Decision

Convene by PCMA

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. Starting in 2019, we put into all of our contracts a frustration of purpose clause, which basically states that central to our mission is that we respect reproductive choice and access to health care.

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Bookmark These Top 30 Websites for Event Planners

Bizzaboo

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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