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A Year in Recovery: Best Pandemic Travel Tips, Takeaways of 2021

Smart Meetings

The pandemic and the time it took away from air travel and in-person meetings have revealed ways to safeguard—and even improve—the health of meeting professionals and the way we conduct meetings. Flight Cancellations by the Thousands—Does Your Travel Insurance Cover the Cost? “As

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Why Building an Event Community is a Hot Trend for 2021

Eventmobi

Whether you run association events or corporate meetings, year-round access to your event platform can mean more opportunities for both member engagement and revenue generation. Recommended Reading: Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) Achieves 100% Attendance at Virtual Conference.

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Professional Event Planning Guide: Download the Free eBook!

Guidebook

In this guide, five event pros from all ends of the spectrum — corporate meetings, boutique conferences, high-end agencies, and association events — weigh in on running an event from start to finish. Get your event permits and insurance. What’s in the Professional Event Planning Guide? What should you choose?

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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

Antaya Calder, corporate meeting planner at Restive Events & Development, for example, typically offers three tickets for wine or beer and two for hard liquor. Insurance : Require the hotel or catering company to have its own alcohol liability insurance. Buy your own coverage as well.

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How to Create a Long-Term Event Planning Timeline

Social Tables

Consider it your event planning insurance for one of your most scarce resources: time. If you’ve never made a long-term event planning timeline before or just need a refresher, here are some tasks you can include when scheduling your most corporate and private events. While we hope none of these things happen, they sometimes do.

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How to Choose Event Technology, Should Cost be the Main Factor?

Endless Events

So medical meetings have a different set of standards and requirements than say an internal corporate meeting sales meeting for somebody that sells widgets, or an insurance meeting is going to have different requirements than that medical meeting.”.