MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. Here are some action items and ideas that you can implement at whatever stage of your meeting you are in, from Choosing a Location or Venue, to negotiating The Contract , or creating a Communications Policy. How safe are your meetings and events? Then one more.” .

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AUGUST 11, 2023

billion passengers in 2023, nearly reaching 2019 numbers, a year that saw 4.54 Aggregate travel spend to increase the value of regular contract proposals. Air Travel Despite the chaos airlines have seen over recent years, passengers are not staying away. According to Internal Air Transport Association, airlines are expected to carry 4.35

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

She served as Vice President for MPI’s Aloha Chapter in 2019 and is passionate about creating extraordinary guest experiences. Hotels led by Farstad have received numerous recognitions, including the TPS Marriott Sudbury’s award as the 2019 Revenue Performance Team of the Year.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 27, 2024

Further evidence of this shift: Only 14 percent of planners in 2019 said they included sustainability elements in their RFPs; 31 percent do so today. On the flip side, 26 percent of respondents said they start planning with sustainability in mind at the time of sales/concept generation, as part of all contracts.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. Business events and hotel group room bookings are nearly half of what they were in 2019. As a result, travel planners are shifting the focus to their budgets and contracts with third parties. Costs are changing and budgets must follow suit.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. Once the contract has been signed, the tough talk doesn’t stop. Choices, Choices. His advice: “Give the whole picture rather than bringing decisions to a manager piecemeal.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

Flight disruptions have become the norm rather than the exception, and when things go wrong–as they so often do now–we are at the mercy of the airlines’ own Contracts of Carriage, rules written by and most assuredly for the airlines. consumer complaints were already 603% higher than in November 2019.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

A lot more Americans also traveled overseas over the summer, particularly to Europe, and cruising is back above 2019 levels. That gave everyone something valuable to take home. The post Elevated Experiences Scored at Florida Smart Meetings Event appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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MARCH 17, 2022

The city hosted 881 meetings and conventions in 2019. Smart Meetings brought top meeting professionals to The Galt House the same week Berkshire Hathaway hosted 5,000 real estate professionals at 300,000-square-foot Kentucky International Convention Center. Louisville established itself as a meetings powerhouse before the Covid collapse.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 25, 2024

Like many associations, SMFM signs contracts with its host destinations years in advance. In 2019, they began including a frustration of purpose clause when “we started seeing these really egregious state laws,” said Nneka St. Gerard, CMP, chief program officer, meetings, membership, and marketing at SMFM.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2022

The city hosted 881 meetings and conventions in 2019. Smart Meetings brought top meeting professionals to The Galt House the same week Berkshire Hathaway hosted 5,000 real estate professionals at 300,000-square-foot Kentucky International Convention Center. Louisville established itself as a meetings powerhouse before the Covid collapse.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Research Finds Sponsorships Are Still Relevant According to a 2019 report from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research ( CEIR ) of 200 show executives and 728 exhibitors, sponsorships make up roughly 20% of B2B tradeshow revenues. Establishing the conference fee, contracting with the venue and locking the dates will require some effort.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2024

In fact, group business ( see chart ) has recovered to the point that more group rooms were sold in October 2023 than in October 2019. However, it’s not just competition from other meeting groups that has planners in a tough spot as they negotiate contract terms for their 2024 events.

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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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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The newly expanded company will handle placements for full-time jobs in addition to contract work. Meetingjobs, a meetings-industry job board and placement service, has announced a merger with Cadre, an online marketplace where organizations can contract event-industry freelancers.

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Global DMC partners

AUGUST 31, 2021

Remember what it was like to plan events in 2019? From sourcing destinations and negotiating contracts, to attendee management and onsite logistics, COVID has changed almost every aspect of the event planning process. SO MUCH has changed! Plus, with ongoing travel restrictions and global health.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. However, the FBI reports active shooter events increased 33 percent in 2020 compared to 2019 and 100 percent compared to 2016. We’re moving into year three of what will most likely be a continuation of the dreaded ‘P’ word: pivoting.

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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.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Thank you @LEOEvents for putting some context behind the increased prices and fees we are seeing in contracts. In union venues, he is negotiating contract clauses that say if the venue can’t get enough people when they are needed, Leo can bring in their own. Scarcity Eats Cost for Breakfast. MeetSmart pic.twitter.com/lIi0DNi23g.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Cast members at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, overwhelmingly voted to accept a new five-year labor contract that will pay a starting wage of $15 an hour by 2021. But now they’re on their way to a starting pay boost of more than 50 percent. The post Mickey Mouse Gets a Pay Hike appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

Right now, the contract is through 2025, but we’re already talking about continuing,” she said. Even the biggest conferences are always looking for ways to improve. Bauer is looking forward to a long future at Mandalay Bay, which is planning a renovation of the meeting space that will be complete by the 2023 IMEX America show.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 6, 2023

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent or more lower than 2019. Event planners should consider asking key suppliers to add a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their contract.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

Let’s face it, being on either side of the table in hotel-contract negotiations is tough these days. We’re caught between clients whose expectations are stuck in 2019 and hotels that just aren’t going to budge. Here’s how one meeting professional does it. Where does that leave planners? Be prepared for poignant questions.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For most of her life, she concentrated on winning medals, Felix wrote in an opinion piece published in The New York Times in 2019. “At When it came time to approach her contract with her athletic sponsor, Felix was successful in negotiating a clause that protected her rate of pay for a year after birth.

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Endless Events

APRIL 26, 2021

Hopin , the 2019 London-based start-up, is considered a unicorn among event apps. The expansion of what was event apps over a decade and then the contraction over the last three years is all happening in one year for these platforms. Now, we’re starting to see the contraction where things are consolidating and coming together.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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. ” The proof is in the pudding: Passenger arrivals surpassed 2019, with record arrivals May-Sept 2020. Orlando-San Juan was the busiest route in the world in early 2021.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to the 2022 Global Meetings and Events Forecast from American Express Meetings & Events, more than two-thirds of responding planners expect their total number of meetings to return to 2019 levels by Q2 2023. Planning for duty of care towards attendees is another item that’s moved far up the list of planners’ duties.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As MPI celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is looking forward to 2027 with a new contract for CEO and president Paul Van Deventer with a focus on advocacy, innovation and education to expand and engage a diverse community. Since April 2020, MPI Foundation has given back more than $1.1

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

This month on January 14th, 2019, PSAV published a press release announcing the purchase agreement for PSAV to acquire Encore Event Technologies. January 2019. If you aren’t familiar, PSAV is an industry giant founded in 1937. October 2018. PSAV acquires Encore Event Technologies. It Could Bring New and Fresh Opportunities.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 26, 2022

While it was inevitable that late July’s Comic-Con International convention in San Diego—the first since 2019—would experience some unforeseen glitches during the week, the show’s planners once again made themselves available on the final day to hear critiques from attendees.

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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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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In fact, he predicted that when the dust settles and more virtual platform companies have acquired or been acquired, virtual events will be more frequent and engaging than they were in 2019. She suggests not signing long-term contracts “because you don’t know what is going to happen.”.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 16, 2019

An online reseller of contracted meeting elements launches a week ahead of its industry rollout at the IMEX show in Frankfurt. When meetings are canceled, the group that signed the contract is typically responsible to pay either a flat fee or a percentage of the revenue they were to bring to the contracted supplier. I doubt it."

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It has topped of the list of challenges identified by planners in Convene ’s Annual Meetings Market Survey for years, including in the 2017 and 2020 surveys, conducted in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and in our most recent survey (to be published in a special Convene November Forecast issue).

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the events industry had a $1,135.4 Have you put language into your contracts regarding hot-button issues? Billion valuation, making the events industry well positioned to make an economic impact should planners support social movements like boycotts. But should event planners boycott? .

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DCI

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Small Business Administration (SBA) and Economic Development Administration combined invested less than $40 million in programs that encourage this sort of ecosystem building, which is a fraction compared to the $23 billion in SBA loans disbursed in 2019. Fast-forward to 2019. Statistics support the efficacy of ecosystems.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Over the past nine and a half years, only three months have seen revenue per available room (RevPAR) decline, according to hotel research firm STR—and all three were within the past year, including September 2019, the most recent month reported. This trend “points to a continued slowdown for the U.S. Demand only grew 1.2

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