2025 Food and Beverage Negotiating 
Smart Meetings
APRIL 8, 2025
Inside IACC’s vision for a smarter, greener future in meetings and hospitality Attendees at this years 2025 IACC Americas Knowledge Exchange in College Station, Texas, were in for an exciting experience. Thats why we include speakers on negotiation, influence and professional development. MC Food waste management is a core focus.
Smart Meetings
MARCH 21, 2025
Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. Read More : Event Contracts: What to Watch in 2025 “The first thing I do when I review a contract is go through and put dollar signs everywhere that I find a fee or surcharge, so Im sure I captured them all, said Warner.
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Smart Meetings
JANUARY 22, 2025
The Prices are Too Damn High Aguero put up a chart showing the prices of consumer products like electricity, airline fares, food, vehicles, childcare and more, highlighting that the price of everything has gone up. The post Preview Las Vegas 2025: A Capital of Multitudes appeared first on Smart Meetings.
Smart Meetings
JUNE 27, 2023
All the way out to at least 2025 right now, maybe even 2026, depending on your group size, or the destination, or the hotel that you want to be in.” Negotiate the Details Prepare for pushback on all fronts, Payne advised. “I Organizations that are having issues booking hotels may want to consider all available options.
SmartMeetings
JANUARY 17, 2025
Tyra Warner, assistant professor and department chair of Hospitality and Tourism Management at College of Coastal Georgia, has seen hotel negotiations from every angle. Since Covid, hotels have been negotiating hard, and that will probably continue, she begins, then moves straight to what contract negotiators can do to manage that reality.
Event Marketer
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
So we might have a 20-minute little food and beverage [experience] with here’s what to look out for this week, and here’s some tips and tricks from some of our alumni, says Preiss. Ultimately, the experts agreed that attracting, and catering, to first-time attendees is non-negotiable. Here’s my hack.
SmartMeetings
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Contract tips to keep in mind A quarter century into the second millennium, there are several things that remain constant: humans need food, water and shelter to survive; the law of gravity is still in play; and event contracts are still a necessity between meeting professionals and hospitality venues. These kinds of things can explode.
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