Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I will break down the best ways to save money in an event AV contract without compromising your event. Through the extremely valuable web session conducted by Jon Trask, I will break down some key savings opportunities in an event AV contract. Many times event av contracts bill by hours or days. Duration of Equipment Rental.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

With the pandemic and public concern fluctuating in the midst of uncertainty, event planners and professionals are left with an enormous responsibility to prepare themselves, their guests and their contracts for whatever comes next. Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era. But we’ve anticipated this. State laws are varied.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A lawyer with 25 years of experience in hotel and group contracts, she doesn’t mince words when it comes to planners needing to take the steps necessary to handle any complications that might arise. In these cases, Delvin said, it all comes down to making sure the contract covers every eventuality. “A Lisa Sommer Devlin. Legal Risks.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 21, 2019

When it comes to planning successful meetings and events abroad, preparation is critical, requiring research, patience, and practice. There are unfamiliar challenges when negotiating and contracting with foreign hotels, convention centers, and other vendors; different cultures to understand; and potential risks to be explored.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JULY 8, 2022

When negotiating hotel contracts, it is fair to say things have changed. 5 Key Tips for Negotiating Hotel Contracts. A hotel partner recently shared that you should be ready to sign a hotel contract tomorrow when you begin your sourcing process. Consider closing your contract at the end of a quarter or year.

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Gavel International

AUGUST 14, 2023

These expectations are known as the psychological contract between employees and their employer. Here are some strategies to drive growth, and engagement, and create a company culture that honors the new psychological contract for your employees. Prepare your employees for more than what they need to do in their present role.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In this article, Smart Meetings explains how meeting professionals can take control of their finances by relying less on the static nature of budget plans and better preparing for the future with financial models.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2023

Force Majeure Clauses As we all learned over the last three years, force majeure clauses focus on liability when unforeseen circumstances impact the ability for one or both parties to perform the contracted activities. However, the more vague the wording, the harder it will be for those looking to cancel or terminate an event contract.

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ADMEI

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Safety : Are you prepared for a crisis, from natural disasters to accidents to other emergencies? Will travel routes be affected? Contracts : Are your contracts with venues and vendors solid? A DMC partner can help you compile a risk assessment that covers every aspect of your event, from contracts to catastrophes.

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ADMEI

MARCH 20, 2024

ADMEI Conference attendees can walk away with templates for contracting, employee onboarding materials, supplier relations, answers to burning legal questions from our well-loved “ask an attorney” session, and more. Prepare for awards. Start preparing your award submissions early this year. Maximize your benefits.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. 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.”. By the Numbers.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

Along with expertise in corporate travel events and hotel contracting, he brings a passion for community service. With this experience, he is well-prepared to successfully lead the reopening of British Colonial. Dringham enters as director of marketing. In 2022, he was named HSMAI General Manager of the Year for South Florida.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 27, 2023

Be prepared for how deposits, billing, rebooking, concessions, and more are being handled by meeting properties today. Hotel contracts have changed, and you can’t assume common pre-pandemic terms still apply. Here are some of the top trends to be aware of as you start the contracting process. This is no longer the case.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

By signing a contract with a venue, meeting planners can quickly lose their freedom to choose their AV provider. Instead of concentrating on the number of screens you had last year or equipment assignments per room, different questions during the preparation stage may help you find the right, long-term AV provider.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 1, 2024

The Big Easy prepares for its 11th Super Bowl When the NFL added another week to its usual 17-week schedule in 2021, this created a small problem between the Super Bowl LVIII and this year’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 15, 2023

Here’s a wrap-up of the latest news on airline pilot contracts, and some perspective on the possibility of a strike. A strike authorization does not mean a strike is imminent but gives the union authority to strike if contract negotiations fall through. If that happens, pressure on other airlines to follow suit will increase.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 27, 2023

One of our top clients wanted us to help move a program’s contract. Once she successfully signed the contract, she ended up staying in Mexico. “I I was fascinated and wanted to understand how hotels and destinations were preparing for the return of travel. So in June 2020, I went to Mexico.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The most common mistake Howe sees planners make is that they don’t read their contracts. Contracts are self-inflicted wounds,” he says. You have no rights or responsibilities unless they are in the contract.” Prepare for GDPR. Do Your Homework. In the same fashion, planners need to do their research when hiring vendors.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Planners should also be aware of the needs of attendees while preparing their future events, “Attendees have become more protective of their time and have high expectations for that time when they commit to being away from home,” Diem said. They want interaction, not lectures, they want more white space.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) brought 700 thought leaders together at JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort in Florida to prepare meeting professionals for whatever comes next with a call to reflect, discover and recharge.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

26 their union’s course of action if contract negotiations don’t advance. With the hotel-workers strike in Southern California now more than 10 weeks old, another Unite Here chapter in another major meetings destination is prepared to vote on whether they too should bring a strike into play.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Planners spend lots of time searching for, negotiating with, and contracting the right speakers and presenters for their events. Developing a "Plan B" for each potential complication means the audience will still get what it came for.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Approaching Planning Differently With all this, CWT presents buying strategies heading into 2024 that may help planners prepare for increased business travel prices. Aggregate travel spend to increase the value of regular contract proposals. Shift to long-term planning. Consolidate and compromise.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Does your hotel contract make it easy for a hotel to relocate your business? If your hotel contract was written before or during the Covid pandemic, you’d better watch your back. First, these meeting contracts do not prevent cancellation; rather, they allow cancellation subject to a party’s obligation to pay cancellation damages.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 15, 2022

Allow yourself enough time to source and contract the venues, connect with invited guests, create your theming & build your brand, and manage your orders/shipping. Your timeline is a major chord; you want to offer someone a unique experience that they may not have had yet and narrow the chance that they’ve been there, done that.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2021

“Do you think masks/no masks, vaccines/non-vaxed will or should be an addendum on contracts with venues? Do you think masks/no masks, vaccines/non-vaxxed will or should be an addendum on contracts with venues? Or is it location based, and a mutual understanding between venue and planner?” was an early question. While Attorney John S.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 6, 2022

She said the announcement was being made now to allow clients, customers, supplies and partners the time to prepare. However, in life we should always respond and never react—these circumstances are what we have all prepared for, it is where we excel. 31 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. “I

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 4, 2016

If meeting booking and corporate contract rate predictions pan out, 2017 may be a very good year for meeting planner hotel negotiations. read more.

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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. Be prepared for poignant questions. Without fail, at least one person in the room will share a story about someone they know who has gotten what they want in a hotel-contract negotiation. Again, know your content.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 4, 2016

If meeting booking and corporate contract rate predictions pan out, 2017 may be a very good year for meeting planner hotel negotiations. read more.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 1, 2024

Prevention strategy: Start with a detailed plan covering every event aspect, from timelines and venue selection to vendor contracts and emergency plans. Being prepared can save the day, whether that means having backup vendors, indoor options for outdoor events, or extra technical equipment.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Although inflation has taken a toll on event budgets, some precautionary moves can help side-step the worst impacts by being prepared. Thank you @LEOEvents for putting some context behind the increased prices and fees we are seeing in contracts. Inflationary Realities. Scarcity Eats Cost for Breakfast. Fast, cheap, and good is gone.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 4, 2023

BestCities Global Alliance, the world’s leading network of premier meeting destinations and GainingEdge, a global leader specializing in providing advice to the conventions and meetings industry, are pleased to announce a three-year renewal of their management contract. We are proud to support this journey.”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2021

Common threads in both the survey and the roundtables were the need to change the proposal process, incorporate a Letter of Engagement to protect the planner and DMC prior to executing a contract, and improve site inspection policies. The letter also sets a time frame for progressing to a contract. Proposal Process. Site Inspections.

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ADMEI

MAY 19, 2021

Common threads in both the survey and the roundtables for many were the need to change the proposal process, incorporate a Letter of Engagement to protect both the planner and DMC prior to executing a contract, and improve site inspection policies. If the client advances to contract, the Letter becomes null and void. PROPOSAL PROCESS.

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Traveler's Q

APRIL 3, 2023

Additionally, it provides helpful advice on legal requirements, insurance, and risk management that should be taken into consideration when preparing for an event. It is typically located either adjacent to the stage or backstage and is used for people to relax, prepare, and change costumes.

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Traveler's Q

MARCH 29, 2023

Additionally, it provides helpful advice on legal requirements, insurance, and risk management that should be taken into consideration when preparing for an event. It is typically located either adjacent to the stage or backstage and is used for people to relax, prepare, and change costumes.

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