PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

an associate professor of hospitality management at the University of Arkansas, who both advises students on internships and helps meeting-planning organizations design well-rounded programs for them. His students are required to plan at least two events before graduation as part of their classwork. Ogbeide, Ph.D.,

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Plan Your Meetings

MARCH 25, 2019

Allied PRA, and other DMCs have purchased small DMCs and consolidated, that hasn’t happened in catering so much because catering is super local, but I think it can happen in event planning firms. RELATED STORY: Contract trends: What’s old may be new again. So, what does that mean for meetings and events?

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

While at first look, this may appear to Marriott as a profitable decision on their part, I suspect this decision may not yield the financial gains they anticipated. By doing so, they’ve reduced the need for large sales forces at the hotel companies and have generally elevated the booking/contracting process for clients.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Guest safety has become a focal aspect of incentive travel planning. What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. As a result, travel planners are shifting the focus to their budgets and contracts with third parties. Costs are changing and budgets must follow suit.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

The MBECS were created jointly by Meeting Professionals International and the Canadian Tourism Human Resources Council. A: Strategic planning. D: Financial management. H: Meeting or event design. Develop mission, goals and objectives of meeting/event. Determine feasibility of meeting or event.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

He’s been speaking with four potential sites about hosting the two-day event, including the Dana Farber Center, another health-care facility, a hospital, and a small meeting venue. Each of those venues, he said, has told him they are “fine” with the meeting’s stipulations. live , for The Voice of Healthcare.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 25, 2017

11 questions from Alan Kleinfeld’s Smart Meetings financial and insurance webinar. In a world of heightened security awareness , Arrive Management Group’s Alan Kleinfeld found himself answering a lot of event planner questions during the Smart Meetings webinar on Security May 25. Short answer: it depends.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 30, 2017

Grucci said many contracts with professional firework companies come with a 100 percent payment clause that requires full payment if everything is already loaded by the time an event is cancelled. To minimize financial damage, planners may want to consider taking out event insurance.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Another big, ongoing story has been the transformation of the image that meeting professionals hold of themselves. Among the recommended controls were numbered badges and sequentially numbered cash-transaction forms, so registrants and transactions couldn’t easily go missing, along with the money. — “On-Site Financial Controls,” March 1991.

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