SmartMeetings
JULY 30, 2024
For example: If you’re negotiating a contract in 2024 for a 2027 meeting, lock in menu pricing based on current prices. When it comes to F&B, negotiate a flat discount rate versus a discount if you achieve the contracted minimum. The more the sourcing team knows, the better the partner it can be.
MeetingsNet
MARCH 1, 2024
One was for planners of a 2027 association event requiring 9,000 rooms on peak across nearly 50 hotels. They had signed the contract with the convention center but did not have a lot of their hotel contracts finalized. So I was charged with reaching out to the hotels and getting them to submit room-block bids.
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Smart Meetings
AUGUST 12, 2024
Such as a requirement for hotels with 100 rooms or more to employ hotel staff for front desk and housekeeping—not contracted workers—and have panic buttons for workers who clean and maintain guest rooms. But by 2027 or sooner, there will be “almost nothing” in the pipeline. Nice Planner! It gets worse.
Event Marketer
JULY 11, 2024
But 2027 may see a shift for the long-running festival as its 13-year contract with Park City ends in 2026 (the 2025 and 2026 editions will remain in Utah). In May, Sundance began taking proposals from other cities as part of a review process exploring a move.
Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 13, 2024
Archer Aviation has completed more than 400 test flights and has signed manufacturing contracts worth over $6 billion so far. Archer is currently developing an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft they have dubbed Midnight.
MeetingsNet
AUGUST 29, 2023
As with recent hotel-labor agreements around the country plus a new contract for UPS workers, fresh contracts for more than 45,000 airline pilots may well affect costs around business events. The compensation and benefits for American pilots will be more than $9 billion across the four-year contract.
MPI
OCTOBER 14, 2024
The market is shifting overall, with the sales of Guinness Zero projected to surpass the brand’s regular alcohol sales by 2027, he said, and major liquor companies investing in the non-alcoholic options. “Just because you don’t drink alcohol doesn’t mean you deserve a lesser experience,” Radke said.
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