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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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Poll Results: Will NAACP Florida Travel Advisory Affect Meetings?

MeetingsNet

A significant percentage of meeting professionals say the NAACP’s advisory will be a factor in site selection. Another 46 percent believe that the advisories will not affect their site-selection decisions, while 14 percent of respondents are unsure. The advisories in Florida are likely to affect our choices : 24.3%

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Elevate Your Group Travel Experience: Incentive Travel Company vs. Travel Agency

Brightspot Incentive Events

Different Focus, Different Expertise Travel Agency Travel agencies excel in catering to individual vacationers and transient business travelers, focusing on booking one reservation at a time. Read on to explore why opting for an incentive travel company like Brightspot can transform your group travel experience.

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Sky-High Airfares Plus Delays Mean Fewer Attendees, Say Planners

MeetingsNet

And when it comes to site selection, 52 percent said that high airfares are affecting their choices in one of two ways: They are only considering cities that offer more carriers and flights (60 percent) or they are opting to hold regional meetings to minimize air travel (40 percent). Specifically, 69.2

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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. 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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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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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. Their filters and direct booking tools are also useful. This is especially helpful for saving time playing email or phone tag.

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