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You Can Negotiate Away Annoying Hotel Fees

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In other words, hotels and resorts saw what airlines were doing and started figuring out their own ways to increase revenue beyond the basic fare —or, in this case, the room rate. I have heard of planners negotiating out this fee,” says Lauren Wolfe, a lawyer who publishes the website killresortfees.com. Last year, the U.S.

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Top 5 tips to negotiating the best event venue price

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There are a few tricks to negotiating venue costs. If you do have a budget in place, let the venue know a number that is lower than what your actual budget is, allowing some room for negotiating. Similar to buying airline tickets, the dates and times you choose for your event can dramatically effect the price. Happy planning!

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Contract Clauses You Need in 2025

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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.

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7 Trendsetting Travel Apps

SmartMeetings

The app lets users browse curated, local hotel venues as well as choose food, beverages and other amenities for groups of up to 40 people. The app offers already-negotiated prices and same-week bookings. Bizly provides instant booking for meetings in major cities. ChatnBook is basically the Tinder of hotel booking.

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Preview Las Vegas 2025: A Capital of Multitudes

Smart Meetings

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. We know that consumers are being stretched, he said. The combination of these things is a little tricky.

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BENEFITS OF HOSTING A WINTER MEETING

Master the Event

This provides the meeting planner an opportunity to negotiate with a four or five star hotel where otherwise, say July or August, he or she may have had to negotiate with a three-star property. A meeting planner will have much more bargaining power for room rates, food and beverage etc. Transportation.

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Rethinking How You Work With Procurement

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I know where my negotiation points are, and where I can bring expenses down to create more value for the company.’”. For meeting professionals who work hard at building relationships and excel at negotiation, requiring sign-off from a procurement team — or even having procurement run the RFP process — can be a hard pill to swallow.