Milestone Events Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

Venues will typically require a deposit between 25% to 50% of the site fee or estimated charges when booking your wedding. If you cancel far enough out and the venue can re-book your date at the same price, then most venues will refund the deposit in full. .

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Capterra Event Management

APRIL 25, 2017

Venue Selection. Site Selection. If you are able to negotiate beneficial contracts with your vendors, you will minimize your need to store resources. Check out any of these links for event planning professional development: The Top 10 Books Every Event Manager Should Read. Price: $345 – $875. Topics: Budgeting.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

First, says Steve Enselein, senior vice president of events for Hyatt Hotels, planners should ask during the site-selection process about the training the service staff receives, as well as the average tenure of staff at the property. Ask to See Hotels’ Customer-Satisfaction Surveys. Provide the Hotel with Details ASAP.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future?

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tanna Pearman, meeting broker for Las Vegas-based Meetings Made Easy, handles site selection and contracting for both corporate and association clients, which means her approach to building RFPs focuses on different elements of each meeting to match a given destination and its various hotels. Every RFP is unique,” she says.

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Connect Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Before booking, consider carefully all aspects of bringing in an AV company, from ballroom rental and power usage to labor and things like Internet access. Site selection, for both the destination and specific venues, also plays a key role in determining AV expenses. “For

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

If you use Google flights or use Google to book your hotel, Google typically will have an emissions factor on there.” The Impact of Site Selection Reduce 2’s Glenn Hansen worked with Maritz on reducing one of its clients’ carbon footprint by focusing on site selection. Then they had signed up for Rome.

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Master the Event

APRIL 5, 2022

Planning a conference includes way more than just booking a venue or two. From site selection to contract negotiations to content to speakers, managing all the countless elements included in planning a conference can leave a planner with zero time to address and succeed at all those other responsibilities.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

From start to finish, the responsibilities involved with a meeting planner career are endless, from site selection to venues, from set-up to speakers, from contracting service companies to tear down and on and on the list goes. Immerse yourself in all things meeting planning.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 4, 2023

Some associations and meeting organizers are reevaluating their site-selection requirements for future meetings as well as how to mitigate fall-out from members as they move forward with meetings at destinations previously contracted.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

Here’s why: Effectively, Marriott has announced a 30-percent reduction in revenue to those firms that have been booking Marriott-owned or Marriott franchise hotel properties for their clients. For many, their only choice when booking a hotel in the Marriott family will be to reduce the amount or level of services that they currently offer.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

Meanwhile, similar bathroom bills are being considered in other states — 16 as of last month, according to CNN — which can certainly affect a planner’s site-selection process. But what recourse do conference organizers have when discriminatory legislation is passed in a future host city that is already on the books?

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MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

Moms for Liberty, a controversial far-right advocacy organization, is known for supporting book bans on topics of racism, slavery, sex, and gender identity, and for pushing anti-trans policies in schools. What If Your Group Was Booked There? The group’s “Joyous Warriors Summit” convenes at the Marriott June 29 to July 2. Grimes, Esq.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 8, 2020

What to Expect When Booking A-List Event Speakers Having an a-list event speaker can be great for attendees to witness but what does it take to book them? 2021 Meeting Safety Trends in 2022 It’s not just Covid-19 and it’s much more than F&B, room blocks and hotel contracts. What does this mean for groups? Here’s how.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 18, 2017

Book early. If you want to keep your event under budget and book rooms at the best hotels, be sure to book early. The presidential inauguration illustrates clearly why booking early is so important. The president-elect’s own hotel, Trump International Hotel Washington DC, has long been fully booked.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

that February to present to the Republican National Committee’s Site Selection Committee. A month later, representatives from the selection committee visited Cleveland, and the city moved to the next round of the competition. “It Representatives from all eight cities traveled to Washington, D.C., But it worked out great.

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