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Is Your Meeting Storm Ready?

Smart Meetings

What Planners Can Do to Be Prepared When it comes to severe storms, the best things any event professional can do is prepare as much as they can. Before the storm hits, it’s advisable to communicate with attendees, vendors and speakers. How does transportation need to be arranged?

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What is a DMC and How Does It Benefit Me?

ADMEI

From location and transportation to schedules and speakers, a multitude of decisions await you in your planning. Events of every size require strategic preparation and skilled partners. From entertainment and transportation to venues and safety, a DMC can help you take your next event from good to great.

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How These 3 Factors Create Powerful Experiences During Incentive Trips

Gavel International

Engaging in culturally infused transportation such as a riverboat cruise, or rides on a camel, sleigh, gondola, rickshaw, cable car, or safari Jeep. LOCAL CUISINE While eating at area restaurants is perfectly acceptable, preparing and sharing a meal is a much better way to experience the culture.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Tarin Horan, CMP

Smart Meetings

Preparing for the Exam She remembers, “When I first started out, I was a sponge trying to learn as much as possible.” As she prepared for the exam herself, she turned to vendors for many of her questions. When you entered the room, you were transported to an event in the country.” Horan says, “I love what I do.

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When Mother Nature Is an Unwanted Attendee at Your Meeting or Event

Smart Meetings

Should you arrange transportation for attendees to get to another venue, or would you cancel it altogether? Who are your vendors, and would they be self-sufficient in preparing for a weather event, or would they need emergency guidance? Can your venue provide generator power should severe weather impact your electricity supply?

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How Corporate Events Impact Your Reputation as a Company

ADMEI

How Planning Impacts Perception Hosting a large-scale corporate event is a massive undertaking, coordinating a variety of vendors to bring your brand to life in a way that aligns with your target audience. When check-in lines are long and slow, itineraries are confusing, or vendors are understaffed, guests take note.

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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

Smart Meetings

They started having frank conversations with partners working on the next three years of events and vendors who had submitted RFPs, but had not been selected. “An Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers. Construction delays at America’s Center Convention Complex in St. It turned out clear.”

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