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Navigating Venue Contracting and Sustainability Across Meeting Programs

BCD Meetings & Events

Our UK team recently hosted a Client Forum to bring together a range of clients from banking, pharma, advertising, and automotive to provoke discussion, share experiences, and provide a peer network. These led to noteworthy takeaways that we have summarized below.

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Should You Break the Bank to Hire a Celebrity Speaker?

Convene by PCMA

Olympic track-and-field medalist Allyson Felix related her advocacy of contract protections for pregnant athletes to equal employment opportunities for all women during Convening Leaders 2023. Only 1 percent of respondents to a Freeman survey said they preferred celebrity speakers to those who had something relevant to say to their groups.

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Marriott’s ‘Meet with Momentum’ Creates Community Like None Other

Smart Meetings

Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract. Read More: Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract During the open Q&A, planners aired frustrations—contracts are time-consuming already.

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Experts: Travel Industry Could Coast Through Recession

Smart Meetings

Economists rarely agree on anything, but reports from Moody’s Analytics, Jeffries and The World Bank are in alignment that a recession is coming, probably by the end of 2023. Oxford Economics’ Savelli explained that during past recessions, room demand overreacted, with sometimes twice as much of a contraction as the economy overall.

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Louisville Experience Checked All the Boxes

Smart Meetings

Louisville, Kentucky—birthplace of Muhammad Ali—on the banks of the Ohio River, checked all those boxes. Some destinations rise to the top of meeting bucket lists because of their history. Others for their natural beauty, and still others for their dynamic business credentials. This is a great time to think about models,” he said.

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Louisville Experience Checked All the Boxes

Smart Meetings

Louisville, Kentucky—birthplace of Muhammad Ali—on the banks of the Ohio River checked all those boxes. Some destinations rise to the top of meeting bucket lists because of their history. Others for their natural beauty, and still others for their dynamic business credentials. This is a great time to think about models,” he said.

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Meeting Profs Travel Report: Can ‘Broken’ U.S. Airlines Be Fixed? Senate Hearing Spotlights Consumer Frustrations, Airline Accountability

Smart Meetings

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. That’s your money and should be in your bank account.

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