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New York City Hotel Licensing Fight: What Meeting Profs Need to Know

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Proposed law may impact pricing, but it’s more complicated than that The city that doesn’t sleep should not mind having the number of its hotel rooms go down, but meeting profs will—and proposed licensing of hotels in New York City will hasten the drop, according to trade groups for the hotel industry. Read More : No More Ms. It gets worse.

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Cut Costs, Not Corners

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3 tips for events that meet goals and fit the budget As planners, we’re expected to deliver results while delighting our clients and staying on budget. For example: If you’re negotiating a contract in 2024 for a 2027 meeting, lock in menu pricing based on current prices. This see significant savings.

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A Look at Planners’ Powerful Partners: CSMs

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It’s tough to imagine a meeting that might run more smoothly than the Event Services Professionals Association’s annual conference, the most recent edition of which took place in late January in Indianapolis. A lot of planners don’t know these experiences can happen in their meeting.”

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Smart Travel: Flying Taxi Startup Raises Millions, Armenia Debuts Top Luxury Destination, Marriott Acquires Postcard Cabins and More

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Want to stay ahead of the curve when selecting a destination for your next meeting? Marriott has just teamed up with Postcard Cabins to change the game when it comes to meetings in the great outdoors. Wish your attendees could just levitate from the airport to the meeting?

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Will New Labor Deals Bring Budget Blues to Meetings?

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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.

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Strikes Begin at Several Meeting Hotels in SoCal

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The reason: an expired labor contract for about 15,000 Local 11 workers across 65 hotels. Under such a deal, wages for housekeepers in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles who currently earn 25 dollars an hour would rise 10 percent next year, and be more than 31 dollars per hour by 2027.

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Beyond the Bar: Redefining event experiences with non-alcoholic drinks

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Meetings & Events; and Carl Radke, advisor for Loverboy, owner of Soft Bar in Brooklyn and star of Summer House on Bravo. 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.

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