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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

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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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Booked and Busy: The Best Event Planning Reads You’ll Actually Use

Smart Meetings

I still have that bookits under my bed with a stack of old Smart Meetings magazines. It covers everything you need to know about event planning, including finding venues, building a team, negotiating contracts, and even measuring success after the event is over. It turns out there are a ton of options.

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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 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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Acing the Post-COVID Contract

SmartMeetings

If there’s one thing coronavirus has done, it’s shone a spotlight on the importance of having a rock-solid contract to protect you from legal action. Before the coronavirus, many venue contracts didn’t feature force majeure clauses , and too many planners may not have seen a need for it. Event Contract Language.