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Contract Clauses Planners Need in 2024

Smart Meetings

Cohen, a partner at Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen LLC, who specializes in entertainment, criminal defense and hospitality law, to chat about what planners should consider adding to their contracts in 2024. Outside vendors or exclusive vendors? Outside vendors or exclusive vendors? Cost for meeting rooms.

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How DMCs Can Help You Manage the Unexpected

ADMEI

How DMCs Can Help You Manage the Unexpected 13 December 2023 You’re probably already familiar with this popular phrase in the hospitality industry: expect the unexpected. Even the most meticulously planned events can fall prey to natural disasters, a pandemic, vendor cancellations, and keynote speaker travel delays.

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How Attribute-Based Shopping Will Change Hotel Booking

AltexSoft Travel

Among hospitality distributors, Expedia has announced early results for its efforts to present an ABS shopping path where possible. One of the hottest topics in hospitality today is attribute-based shopping. Room type examples A Rate Plan represents essentially the practical terms and conditions that go with a booking.

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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

Smart Meetings

Experts weigh in on what needs to change to work together better Editor’s Note : Hospitality sales consultant Steve Steinhart will be speaking at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience in Monterey, California, Nov. Register here to hear him in person. So, you have inexperienced buyers working with inexperienced sellers.

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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. As the economy began recovering from COVID, the hospitality industry was more accommodating, trying to survive the fallout from the pandemic. A new focus on work-life balance that has always plagued the hospitality industry became very apparent. High Demand.

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Top 3 DMC Trends as Tracked by an AI Proposal Platform

Smart Meetings

Just as you might make a look book for the top three or 10 destinations with images, square footages and prices, this makes it easy to show what is popular, creative and available when the client needs it. It is a functional, curated package generator to manage data, information and vendors. “I

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Designing Events with Empathy

ADMEI

DMCs provide valuable assistance in every area, from local expertise to cost-effective vendor and venue bookings. Posted in ADMEI-Blog , Uncategorized Posts navigation ← Helping Hospitality Students Transition from Campus to Career The post Designing Events with Empathy appeared first on ADMEI.

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