EventMB

MAY 10, 2021

The sweeping cancellations and pandemic-related uncertainties have exposed vulnerabilities in the way third-party planners get paid, which is pushing some to redefine their contracts in order to protect their interests. Is this sustainable? The post Third-Party Planners Are Taking Charge to Protect Their Contracts — Will it Last?

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2024

Leading luxury catering and event management services provider Blue Strawberry Group has secured a five-year contract to deliver exclusive hospitality and event services at 8½ London – home to The Skinners’ Company. Blue Strawberry Group was awarded the contract after undertaking an extensive and highly competitive tender process.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Unexpected cancellations, attendance fluctuations, and travel restrictions have made rigid contracts a dealbreaker. Many corporations have sustainability goals that extend to their event planning, requiring venues and destinations to support green initiatives.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 11, 2025

Thinking about a cruise meeting or incentive but unsure if it aligns with your sustainability goals? As part of a larger growth plan, the company also signed contracts for four more ocean ships, with two confirmed for delivery in 2031 and two more under option for 2033. Hoping to give U.K.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 20, 2022

MeetGreen Director of Sustainability Eric Wallinger here and in photo at top. In both cases, a venue’s energy mix or willingness to purchase renewable energy credits for your event could be a compelling reason your event might contract with a particular venue. A Place to Start. Getting Centralized.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

LIVE (Live music Industry Venues & Entertainment) has unveiled a new sustainability initiative. Led by its expert working group, LIVE Green, it will provide artists with the tools and information to include sustainability clauses in their booking contracts.

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

While people love spending their time in such places, the organizers do not really place sustainability as the anchor of organizing such events. The concept of sustainability has been around for a long time but now it has become the need of the hour so that each one of us can do our bit in making an impact on the environment.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Contract & Invoice Support Helping clients navigate venue contracts and avoid unexpected costs. Sustainability-Focused Options Prioritising eco-conscious venues where possible. Heres what makes Match My Venue different: Tailored Venue Sourcing No generic venue listsjust personalised recommendations.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The arm of national catering business, Amadeus , responsible for the delivery of standalone event catering, has secured its latest contract with Unique Venues Birmingham (UVB). Events by Amadeus has been working with UVB since 2019, and the team have signed a new three-year contract to deliver catering provisions to the organisation.

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Contracts Venues Food and Beverage Sustainability 147

Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Elsewhere, insights on event contracts revealed that a quarter of respondents experienced significant disputes in the last 12 months, as 6 in 10 (62%) highlight the challenges of cancellation policies.

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2025 Contracts Sustainability Education 130

The MICE

JANUARY 9, 2025

In July 2024 I visited UEFA EURO 2024 in Stuttgart to get insights into the sustainability initiatives in place. I spoke to Ellen Schmid, Deputy Head of Sustainability @ UEFA Euro 2024 – Host City Stuttgart. What are the key sustainability initiatives UEFA Euro 2024 is implementing to minimise the environmental impact?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Negotiating Sustainability 2024 130

Event Marketer

APRIL 11, 2022

The Ice House activation was designed to be shareable, sustainable and flexible. There are a lot of other components that make that partnership valuable—the mutual focus on sustainability, on a great consumer experience, on providing a gathering place for not just one type of consumer, but families and a diverse set of consumers.

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Sponsorships Apparel Sustainability Sports 353

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The free program touches on topics, in the form of webinars, from the basics of meeting planning to more complex topics, such as event technology and sustainability. 4, which covered the basics of the event life cycle, from creating the event and RFP templating to contracting and asking suppliers the right questions. 25 at 11 a.m.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sustainable tourism is vital. That’s the principle that guided Tourisme Montréal’s proactive sustainability strategy, one that helped it maintain its first place in North America on the 2023 Global Destination Sustainability Index. Look for venues with stringent commitments to sustainability.

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Sustainability Tourism Airlines Contracts 147

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Negotiating Sustainability 2024 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Negotiating Sustainability 2024 130

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract. Read More: Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract During the open Q&A, planners aired frustrations—contracts are time-consuming already.

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Meetings Trade Shows Contracts Sustainability 246

Smart Meetings

APRIL 8, 2025

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. Readers love the book for its attention to detail and its focus on modern event trends, including technology and sustainable practices.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 27, 2024

For a sense of how the business events industry is — or isn’t — embracing sustainability, let’s take a look at three different surveys. Only 17 percent of 340 organizers, who plan corporate, nonprofit, academic, and other kinds of event, said they are featuring sustainability in their program content.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Central Hall Westminster, part of Central Hall Venues group, has announced it has awarded a new £8m contract to in-house AV production services partner White Light. Situated directly opposite Westminster Abbey, the venue is renowned for hosting famous occasions and concerts as well as live and recorded Television shows in its Great Hall.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

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Insurance Negotiating Sustainability 2024 130

Endless Events

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Newbie event planners will often pick a venue, negotiate a deal with them, and sign the venue’s provided contract. . Here’s how your event goals can (and should) change your venue contract in those areas. Ask the venue to include contract terms for COVID compliance, like requiring all venue staff to wear masks. Management.

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Contracts Venues Negotiating Sustainability 119

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A 7-Step Process A true process will go beyond RFP sourcing and site selection, contracting and negotiations. Read More : Year of the Sustainable RFP Let me connect the dots for you. The choices made here ripple through to create a more responsible and sustainable event industry.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 11, 2025

Thinking about a cruise meeting or incentive but unsure if it aligns with your sustainability goals? As part of a larger growth plan, the company also signed contracts for four more ocean ships, with two confirmed for delivery in 2031 and two more under option for 2033. Hoping to give U.K.

Travel 130

Travel 2026 Tourism 2027 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Negotiating Sustainability 2024 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Sustainability Negotiating 2024 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Sustainability Negotiating 2024 130

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Our webinars, the Knowledge Exchange, brought us essential insights on AI, incentives, wellness and contracts, just to name a few! Pasha explored the issues of purposeful design, sustainability, innovation, flexible seating and data-driven adjustments.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Eventist Group has won the prestigious catering contract for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, sponsored by The Newt in Somerset. The five-year contract will see Eventist Group provide diverse food and drink opportunities for more than 100,000 guests over the six-day event.

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Contracts Hospitality Sports Retail 130

Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

All agencies are promoting their sustainable credentials” says Venues for Business Co-Owner Amy Woodthorpe. “We Amy continues, “nearly all of our clients are looking to deliver more sustainable events, so partnering with EventDecision allows us to offer a timely, accurate and valuable analysis of data for our clients. Amy Woodthorpe.

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Gallus Events

JANUARY 16, 2022

Why You Need to Run a More Sustainable Event. The reason we have to run more sustainable events is clear, you only have to look at the very basic building blocks of our events to find out that we have a challenge ahead of us: . Many of whom are on zero-hour contracts, doing low-paid, physically demanding work. Excess and waste

Sustainability 130

Sustainability Tourism Travel Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Negotiating Sustainability 2024 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

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Insurance Sustainability Negotiating Meetings 130

Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2025

Other than running out of coffee, trying to sign contracts years out and arranging travel in a world where costs are the only thing rising faster than attrition rates is the definition of “stressful.” What do meeting professionals hate more than uncertainty? That is a trick question.

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Management Risk Management Travel 2024 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Sustainability Negotiating 2024 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

Insurance 130

Insurance Negotiating Sustainability 2024 130