Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The opening day of IMEX America 2021 at Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas was humming with people just happy to be back together. Once a legally binding contract is in place, it sets the stage for easier conversations,” said Dustin Arnhem, senior vice president of sales with Visit Baltimore. Reduced greenhouse emissions by 36.1%

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Has this year strengthened your relationship with the event contract? Over the months, Sheaks noticed more hotels and venues using liability waivers, along with enhancing safety protocols, revising contracts , signage and training. The post Event Contract Considerations for 2021 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last five years Pantone has made this interesting, including ‘ultraviolet’ and ‘greenery’ and for the complexities of 2021 they have addressed it with two colors. This eloquently sums up what 2021 will need as we return to live events. In 2021 the only thing we are touching is our own device. How will we need to respond?

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

Some organizations are contracting with suppliers to manage check points for proof of vaccination, enforce mask and social distancing and even employing technology solutions for contact tracing. Additional precautions like these can be polarizing for participants. What budgetary issues are you facing to ensure your duty of care at your event?

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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? — Jennifer Cox (@jicox) June 1, 2021. — Anh Nguyen, CMP (@atnguyen) June 1, 2021. TheEventVaxDebate.

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Event Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

The following insights were derived from the Event Marketer x Mosaic EventTrack 2021 industry forecast, AnyRoad’s Experiential Trends 2021 report, Northstar Meetings Group’s May 2021 Pulse Survey and Bizzabo’s Q2 2021 Virtual Events Benchmark Report. So what can event marketers expect as the second half of 2021 unfolds?

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SmartMeetings

MAY 13, 2022

A Breakdown of Post-Pandemic Contract Clauses. New Contract Essentials in an Ever-Changing Environment. Contracting in the current Covid climate is complex—everything feels unsettled, so it’s hard to know how to plan. Contracts and Negotiations Amid Covid: Best of What’s Worked in 2021.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Sheaks discusses what to, and not to, include in your next venue contract, as well as common law principles to refer to if your contract lacks a specific clause, and other contractual considerations. Summary: Contract Negotiation: Post-Pandemic Clauses You Need to Know ).

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 25, 2021

event contract. Foster, CHME, an attorney with Foster, Jensen & Gulley , for an exclusive Q&A on event contract essentials in the Covid era. Listen to “Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era” on demand. This section of the contract will also determine damages the hotel would pay if they cancel the group.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’re bringing you highlights from day two of IMEX America 2021 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in beautiful Las Vegas! Posted by Smart Meetings on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Posted by Smart Meetings on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Posted by Smart Meetings on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. View them all here !

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Event technology company Cvent announced that after going public for a second time in 2021 through a special acquisition at a valuation of $5.3 31, 2022, on the Cvent Supplier Network, an online platform with tools to search, negotiate and contract with hotels and venues for event space. The highly anticipated deal represents an $8.50

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Judging by the increase in contracts confirmed and bookings moving to contracts that we have seen in three days since the news of the lifting of the Plan B restrictions, many event planners are gaining greater confidence to run live events,” says Adam Simpson, Director of Marketing for etc.venues. Contracts worth £1.6m

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. As a result, travel planners are shifting the focus to their budgets and contracts with third parties. Glynn, Eidsvold and webinar attendees closed the final Smart Meetings webinar of 2021 with a wish list for incentive travel.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2023

Display Changes Will Not Apply to Group Rates What you see on your Bonvoy app is what you will get—including resort, destination and other fees—at the registration desk after May 15 if a promised shift in how prices are displayed goes through as required in a November, 2021 settlement with the State of Pennsylvania.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Cast members at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, overwhelmingly voted to accept a new five-year labor contract that will pay a starting wage of $15 an hour by 2021. an hour more by 2021. But now they’re on their way to a starting pay boost of more than 50 percent.

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Endless Events

MARCH 15, 2022

He and Karmen will talk about how Hubilo got started, what challenges they faced along the way, and what are the dos and don’ts of the events industry, as learned in 2021. Most of the contracts applied force majeure clause and ended the contract.” “Can you recap 2021 and move forward to 2022?”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

For example, Unite Here used union contracts to protect more than 200,000 members from anti-LGBT discrimination before the 2020 Supreme Court ruling that included the LGBT community in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to a 2021 study by the Economic Policy Institute, union workers earn 10.2% For hospitality workers, the U.S.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But how will it affect 2021 budgets? Contracting for the bare minimum level of technical support is a bad idea. The post How Will Hybrid Meetings Hit 2021 Budgets? Now, conventional wisdom suggests that hybrid groups, which combine teleconferencing with person-to-person meetings, will be prevalent for the foreseeable future.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

September 2021 — Are in-person events COVID safe? You can watch Freeman’s 55-minute webinar, posted on August 25, 2021, below. ?. This slide compares the mid-August, 2021 rate of COVID cases amongst the entire population in the United States with the reported rates from four recent large in-person events.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Four Best Venue Management Software Solutions of 2021. #1 We also provide at-a-glance dashboards and reports so that you can always have a 30,000 foot view of everything going on with your leads and event bookings, from unsigned contracts and overdue tasks to new incoming leads and recent payments. Sign up for a free trial.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The global exhibitions market is set to contract by c.70% AMR’s methodology has focused on three factors – event cancellations, event postponements and the contraction of events. AMR’s methodology has focused on three factors – event cancellations, event postponements and the contraction of events. 70% contraction.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. As a result, travel planners are shifting the focus to their budgets and contracts with third parties. Glynn, Eidsvold and webinar attendees closed the final Smart Meetings webinar of 2021 with a wish list for incentive travel.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2022

Some meeting planners are addressing these concerns by writing amenity guarantees into contracts to provide a more desirable and consistent experience for attendees. bags per thousand passengers in 2021 as the industry recovers from the pandemic, according to the SITA Baggage IT Insights 2022. yet only 1.85 for domestic routes.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The last two years, of course, have been fraught with fear of Covid contraction—and for no one more so than the essential workers charged with maintaining the cleanliness and order of dozens, sometimes hundreds of hotel guest rooms. But despite the danger, hotel housekeepers were and continue to be on the front lines of hospitality.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Members of PCMA’s Catalyst community discuss when they might be able to invoke the force majeure clause in contracts for 2021 meetings. We have a 2021 contract in late April in Chicago for which we updated the force majeure clause to include COVID-19 as a specific situation that would allow us to cancel.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Calendar year 2024 is already forecasted to show a healthy increase in group rooms nationwide, largely due to the number of meetings that had been on the books in 2021, 2022 and 2023 that were postponed or re-scheduled into 2024. I understand hotel costs have risen.” Perhaps to include more than just the meeting specs.”

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Meetings Industry Association has updated its contract and cancellation guidance to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on future bookings and ensure all parties are protected. To download the latest contract guideline visit [link].

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s our forecast that 2021 will be a year of two distinct halves,” says Jan Freitag, senior vice president, lodging insights for STR. As a result, the next three months will be a time for meeting planners to pay close attention to the financial situations of prospective host properties for events they’re planning in the second half of 2021.

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Event Marketer

JULY 27, 2021

Corona took a direct approach to its 2021 Indiana Pacers sponsorship with elaborate mobile locker room fan activations. Whether they have implemented more traditional activation strategies or brand-new engagement tactics, the companies that have tested the waters in 2021 are leading the way to a renewed sports sponsorship landscape.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

One lesson learned from both Frankfurt 2022 and America in 2021 was that people want more focused learning tracks. See highlights from IMEX America 2021. Right now, the contract is through 2025, but we’re already talking about continuing,” she said. We are always looking to learn and adapt.”. Focused Learning.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

. “If we’re really lucky , we’ll have a safe, inexpensive, effective vaccine sometime before the end of 2021.” The hard work of a large number of scientists, years of research on related coronaviruses, plus a paradigm shift in vaccine development led to the rollout of effective vaccines at the start of 2021.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Meet with Momentum debuted in May 2021 to promote the distinction among Marriott CRN’s leading hotels and resorts, and each event is different. Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 17, 2021

For example, for a shorter-term project, you might have fewer people involved than say a longer-term contract process. The post The Essential Virtual Event RFP Guide: 2021 edition appeared first on SpotMe. Honestly, there is not a pre-defined set of absolute requirements here, and much will depend on the context of the RFP itself.

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EventSource

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

They will be able to nitpick and navigate new contract policies, help build appropriate expectations and back up plans, and provide confidence and stability in an otherwise completely unstable climate. Shealyn Angus Principal Planner Shealyn Angus Weddings & Events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Many doubled the size of their booths and in total, participation was 45% larger than in 2021, the year the United States lifted restrictions a week before IMEX doors opened. “I

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Event Farm

MARCH 24, 2021

61% of respondents indicated they are hosting an in-person event in 2021 and 27% said they are trying a hybrid approach first. You have carefully reviewed your vendors’ contracts and understand your liability. During our recent Pandemic Compliance and Safety at Live Events panel, we conducted a poll where. cover the legal costs).

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After a slowdown from 2021, the use of streaming technology is steadily growing again, Alroy reported, citing a survey that found 68% of organizers plan to have a virtual component at their next in-person event. By the fall of 2021, a lot of Joanna Pineda’ global clients were saying they were done with virtual. The Back-up Plan.

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