2022 Negotiating Sustainability 
Event Marketer
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
And amid it all, sustainability watchdogs are championing corporate policies that are focused on monitoring their organizations’ overall business travel emissions. A number of organizations, event properties and venues are using sustainability campaigns and air emissions tools to help track and offset activities.
Velvet Chainsaw
MARCH 15, 2023
Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. Planners are charged with making the problem go away but have little to no negotiating power.
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Smart Meetings
JULY 19, 2022
Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that transportation prices are 36.14% higher in 2022 than they were in 2016. . One feature of myCWT is access to each client company’s corporate negotiated rates and preferred suppliers. billion deal with Tesla to purchase 200,000 electric cars from the manufacturer by the end of 2022. .
Smart Meetings
JULY 12, 2024
Englander takes on the role of account manager as well, and will assist with all aspects of site selection and contract negotiation processes. Aguilar Bultman joined Destination Madison in 2022 as partnership development manager. She previously served as a global sourcing manager at Bishop-McCann.
Event Industry News
JULY 20, 2022
Three quarters (75%) of respondents expect their organisation’s 2022 travel volume to eclipse 2019 levels, with more than a third (32%) citing they expect volumes to “increase significantly”. Areas that have increased in importance include vendor flexibility, environmental sustainability, and traveller preferences, among others.
MeetingsNet
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
While many planners are making do with static or shrinking meeting budgets, more than half the respondents (55 percent) report increases for meeting budgets from 2022 to 2023, and 45 percent have seen increases for incentive budgets. Contracts: The survey asked planners about their number-one concern when negotiating a contract.
MeetingsNet
AUGUST 15, 2022
Hint: A new meeting pattern could help groups having a difficult time at the negotiating table. And] if hotels are selling out rooms Thursday to Sunday at sustained higher rates, is it less important [to hotels] that those same rooms are more than half empty during the week?”.
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