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No More Detours: How Traffic Management Keeps Your Special Event on Schedule

Smart Meetings

Planning and executing a successful large-scale special event can be an exhilarating experience, but one that comes with its fair share of challenges, especially when it comes to managing traffic and ensuring smooth transportation for attendees. Understanding the accessibility of the venue is crucial.

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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. What is Risk Management? Incorporating risk management is essential for every event professional. Have all plans been coordinated before the event?

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Preparation is the Key to Risk Management

Smart Meetings

Risk management is a dedicated preparedness rather than simply a mental exercise, according to Lisa Sommer Devlin, the most recent Smart Meetings webinar host. In her talk, “Risk Management 101,” she outlined strategies for dealing with the risks of the industry, as well as how to actively avoid them.

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Best of 2023: Career Tips

Smart Meetings

In the events industry, the trifecta between program managers, production and creative is imperative to manifesting a memorable experience for attendees. Smart Meetings spoke with attorney, author and faculty legal advisor for International Association of Venue Managers Ty M.

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5 Questions for Your Next Site Inspection

Smart Meetings

Meeting planning always seems to have another trick up its sleeve no matter how prepared you thought you were. With this and ever-changing rules and regulations about Covid-19 safety, what is a meeting professional to do? Find out how the venue managed during the height of Covid. Other things it says to do follow.

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How to Prepare Your Home for Drought

Redfin

If you live in an area where the risk for drought is high, you’ll want to start preparing your home – and yourself – for a drought. Keep reading to learn how you can take the proper precautions and prepare your home for drought. . Steps to prepare your home for drought . What is a drought? Where do droughts occur?

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Event Risk Management: How To Plan for the Next Crisis

Bizzaboo

As we ride an optimistic and calmer wave in the events industry — in-person and hybrid events increased 2X over the last three months, compared to the 3 months prior, according to Bizzabo data — event organizers are embracing the power of risk management. What is risk management in event planning? It’s preparing for the unexpected.