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Tips to Keep Women Secure on the Road

SmartMeetings

The study, which delved into top safety concerns women business travelers face, found that almost 69 percent of United States travel buyers believe females face greater risk than males and 61 percent feel it’s imperative to consider female safety when implementing risk-management programs.

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Are You Planning A Safe Event?

Endless Events

When creating a safe event, you need to choose a knowledgeable venue. Make a checklist of questions to ask the staff before booking the venue. They should be able to answer all your questions in terms of event safety and crowd management. Venues should be able to help you answer any concerns you might have.

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How Do You Handle Special-Meal Requests?

PCMA Convene

In most situations and venues, meeting planners need to provide fair and equal accommodation (meals) to people with allergies, much in the way they might provide wheelchair access — as long as the accommodation doesn’t present an undue burden, such as exorbitant cost. states and municipalities have their own rules.

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Ordering Off the Menu

PCMA Convene

In most situations and venues, meeting planners need to provide fair and equal accommodation (meals) to people with allergies, much in the way they might provide wheelchair access — as long as the accommodation doesn’t present an undue burden, such as exorbitant cost. states and municipalities have their own rules.

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More industry challenges and solutions

Plan Your Meetings

Another voiced concern about the IT infrastructure at venues, stressing the need to know how third-party or in-house AV teams were preserving secure internet connections. Don’t forget, we published a risk management guide in our 2014 PYM Annual. And it’s not just the physical space you need to worry about.

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Getting a grip on event firearms policies

Plan Your Meetings

One tactic for creating firearms guidelines that Johnston has recommend to clients is the “home office policy”: Apply to the event and event venue(s) the same rules for gun possession found at your organization’s headquarters. This has been true…in Atlanta (2015), San Diego (2014), Baltimore (2013) and Chicago (2012).

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Walker is a faculty of the Foster School of Business, at the University of Washington, as Director of Experiential Learning in Analytics and Senior Lecturer of Marketing and International Business, where he teaches a course in Analytics, Marketing, Risk Management, and Digital Strategy. Where to find him? Seema Acharya Who is she?

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