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What Meeting Planners Want: Understanding Their Needs & Pain Points

Smart Meetings

Unexpected cancellations, attendance fluctuations, and travel restrictions have made rigid contracts a dealbreaker. Reliable internet, A/V capabilities, and streaming options are non-negotiable. Are you ready to connect with more meeting planners and showcase your venue or destination?

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Contract Clauses You Need in 2025

SmartMeetings

Professor Tyra Warner on the latest risk factors in this uncertain year From force majeure to data protection, meeting professionals are trying to cover the unexpected in contracts during what could be a tumultuous year for business and the economy. in hospitality. Warner advises caution.

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Renegotiating Live Event Agreements When All Parties Are Innocent Victims

Velvet Chainsaw

However, from past experience, any time that there has been a shift from a seller’s to a buyer’s market, those contracts signed during a seller’s market just flat out had to be updated. Many conference organizers want to change their exhibit contract language or attendee cancellation policies to avoid future losses. Remove Barriers.

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Event Contracts: What to Watch in 2025

SmartMeetings

Contract tips to keep in mind A quarter century into the second millennium, there are several things that remain constant: humans need food, water and shelter to survive; the law of gravity is still in play; and event contracts are still a necessity between meeting professionals and hospitality venues.

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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

Planners are charged with making the problem go away but have little to no negotiating power. Event planners should consider asking key suppliers to add a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their contract. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association.

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Event Contracts: Agree to Be Agreeable

SmartMeetings

Negotiation experts share tips for building win-win event contracts The ROI is in the details when drafting a vendor contract. A win-win contract allows everyone to feel that their biggest risks are covered and they can partner in good faith to execute confidently while working creatively to deliver the best event possible.

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New Contract Essentials in an Ever-Changing Environment

SmartMeetings

2022 contracting will require going back to basics. Contracting in the current Covid climate, however, is complex—everything feels unsettled, so it’s hard to know how to plan. Anyone who has written a contract in the COVID era has learned one thing—patience! How do we navigate this ever-changing environment?

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