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Webinar: Transparency in Contracting: Navigating the Destination Booking Agreement (DBA)

Convene by PCMA

Learning Objectives: Acquire a deeper understanding of the emerging trends and evolving practices in contracting for city-wide events. Identify potential issues that may arise when negotiating contracts and how to avoid them by utilizing the key elements of Destination Booking Agreements (DBAs).

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The Mutual Benefits of Planning with a Unionized Property

Smart Meetings

They negotiate for higher wages, improved benefits including retirement plans and family healthcare, job training, due process and safety concerns. The financial benefits of union membership have been recorded several times. In San Francisco, there are 60 properties with solid union contracts that are not at risk for striking.

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What is a DMC and How Does It Benefit Me?

ADMEI

What is a DMC and How Does It Benefit Me? As an event planner, you’re the expert in this craft —yet it could benefit you greatly to have a local ally who is the expert in your selected destination. What are the benefits of working with a DMC? To put on a successful event, you need both big-picture vision and an eye for detail.

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Best of 2023: Career Tips

Smart Meetings

The Roots of Gravitas Founder & CEO of clothing company Gravitas and author of the acclaimed book with the same name, Lisa Sun is a speaker and entrepreneur with a message for women on how to define what “gravitas” means to them and how to harness it for their own personal and professional benefit.

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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

Smart Meetings

Having interviewed experts from both sides of the equation, this paper will offer advice on what those shifts are and how you can benefit from them. If a group is looking to book in 2024, Omni may negotiate contracted rates and concessions if they will book more of their meetings with a sister Omni hotel in future years.

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How Attribute-Based Shopping Will Change Hotel Booking

AltexSoft Travel

If something is included in the price but the buyer hasn’t asked for it, it’s a questionable benefit and possibly a detriment. This is why we’ve teamed up with Hudson Crossing , a leading global advisor to travel and hospitality companies, to unravel what this concept entails and what benefits this approach gives hoteliers and hotel guests.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

Though I love my work, it was nice to reduce the number of high-intensity workdays booked in 2023! Generative AI: How do we use it and benefit from it in the world of events? 2023 book sale! (If If you skipped straight here, I understand and forgive you 😀 ) I have a hard time offering a sale on my paperback books.

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