Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Across the hospitality industry, meetings and large-scale events play a significant role in the success of hotels, restaurants, clubs—really any venue. Top Tips for Large-Scale Event Planning Anyone who has ever planned or led an event knows it can be a substantial undertaking.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2022

The summer of 2023 will herald a new era of meetings in South Lake Tahoe with the arrival of the over $100-million Tahoe South Events Center. The site of the events center, currently under construction at Stateline, Nevada, is conveniently located near major hotels and casinos including Harveys Lake Tahoe, Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and others.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2025

To better support planners in 2025, Smart Meetings chatted with Tyra Warner , associate professor and chair of the Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts at College of Coastal Georgia, to learn what they should consider when entering the contract negotiation phase of their event planning. Who is in charge of it?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Shaffer has also been association and corporate sales manager at The DeSoto Savannah in Georgia, sales manager for Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Airport Hotel & Convention Center and more. Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Tiffany Alves Hafer. Steve Maritz and David Peckinpaugh.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The mentors and investors are business executives internationally established from Google to Hilton Hotels. Read More : Smart Chat: Julius Robinson On Winning the War for Talent At the end of the three months, participants will take part in the Tisch Center Incubator 2023 “Pitch Your Passion & Seal the Deal” event in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

And even though innovative event technology solutions help automate many of the event planning processes, certain tasks remain unchanged. Let’s take the skill of hotel contract negotiations ; novice planners tend to feel overwhelmed by the nitty-gritty details of hotel contracts and often learn as they go.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 9, 2024

And, if you opt for a buyout for a private event, that prize desk can be transformed for gifting your lucky attendees, and that ambient lighting throughout the golf course can be customized to your branding, too! I don’t think you’ll find in any hotel in Ireland plastic bottles anymore. Where’s the Plastic? “I

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Timely responses from hotels? As corporate and association event planners gear up for the first full year since 2019 without Covid-related meeting restrictions—but with a choppy economic outlook too—they harbor a mix of positive and negative expectations about how they’ll coordinate and execute their upcoming events.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Since pop-up events can be face to face with target audiences directly engaging or virtual with video calling, or even a hybrid of them both, it’s important to hold these events at locations that have basic amenities. They can be held in hotels, resorts, parking lots, unused retail offices, shopping malls or even in empty buildings.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 10, 2021

Hotel sales, banquet and private event managers know what it’s like to work under pressure. Whether they’re responding to new prospects, following up with them for contract signatures or chasing down clients for payments or vital input for their event, there is rarely any free time in their schedule. Planning Pod can help.

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Guidebook

APRIL 23, 2025

With the right venue, its easy to make a lasting impression on attendees, making it more likely that theyll return for future events (and also tell others about the event). At Guidebook, weve supported thousands of event organizers through the event planning process, and we know it can feel overwhelming.

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Social Tables

MAY 30, 2019

Your party planning checklist Whether it’s for a graduation or sales goal celebration, parties require the same event planning skills required to host any other type of group gathering. Depending on the size or complexity of your party, you may want to brush up on best practices or party planning articles to prepare yourself.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 5, 2023

The report surveys meeting planners from all over the world on their priorities for venue selection in a wealth of categories, including meeting space design, technology, food and beverage and social impact at small to midsize business events—the largest part of the industry overall, but also the most underreported.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Casino & Hotel Maryland in Hanover. Cofelice is director of sales at Vail, Colorado’s Sonnenalp Hotel. A long-time resident of the Vail valley, Cofelice joins the hotel team with more than 10 years of sales management experience. D’Angelo has an extensive 20 years of hospitality management experience with Hyatt Hotels.

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GEVME

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Knowing how to prepare a venue for an event is one of the key points in event planning. Choosing a venue for an event is also one of the first negotiation points as well. If you’re lucky, the event market will offer a variety of good venues. How to prepare an event venue. Food and beverage.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why we pioneered Hilton EventReady with CleanStay , designed to provide curated solutions for every step of the event planning process. Inspired, Innovative Food & Beverage Solutions.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why we pioneered Hilton EventReady with CleanStay , designed to provide curated solutions for every step of the event planning process. Inspired, Innovative Food & Beverage Solutions.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Palli has joined Omni Hotels & Resorts in Dallas as chief commercial officer. With 25 years of experience in hospitality management, Palli has held multiple leadership positions with Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, including night manager, duty manager, front of house manager, revenue manager and more. Peter Palli. Jennifer Walker.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

1 – Planning Pod. When we built Planning Pod, we set out to solve a big problem that many event venues, restaurants and hotels face … juggling too many applications, emails, documents, spreadsheets and even notes, folders and whiteboards to manage their event bookings. Primary Focus. Which leads right into….

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For most meeting planners, planning for a main event often involves food and beverage. And, as most meeting planners will also tell you, when planning an event with food and beverage you can chew up a large portion of your budget. Nowadays most hotels have outstanding banquet facilities.

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EventSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Great food, great wine, and the greatest people. ” – Melissa, Lustre Events. Fab Fête Event Planning Boutique. “Carmela and Gilad’s gorgeous, lakeside cottage wedding was definitely one of our favourite events from last season! ” – Tamara and Michelle, Fab Fête Event Planning Boutique.

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Social Tables

APRIL 13, 2021

Want to learn how to plan an outdoor event that attendees will love? Below, we cover all the essentials of how to plan an outdoor event. We include tips, tricks, expert advice, and some of the top event planning tools needed to make everything go off without a hitch. Find a great outdoor event venue.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 13, 2023

On April 1, Hyatt Hotels unveiled a revised version of its event-planning program called Together by Hyatt, adding new elements that address sustainability practices, meeting-space layouts, technology applications, food-and-beverage services, and more for each of its U.S. sometime in 2024.

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EventMB

AUGUST 15, 2024

The 2024 categories were once again split across three distinct criteria groups: Hotels Other suppliers Tech Providers Following a scoring review by our independent judging panel , the winners of the 2024 Skift Meetings Awards have now been confirmed. More Information HOTELS Category: Best Hotel Chain (Outside the U.S.)

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If you’re planning an event, do you keep it on-site (say the hotel ballroom, for example) or do you take a group off-site for a unique venue? That’s a common question that meeting planners address during the planning stages. The planner wants to ensure that each meeting that he or she plans is original.

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

Events and gatherings happen in all sizes, at all kinds of social and commercial environments — whether it is a Christmas party, a large scale conference or a business event. While people love spending their time in such places, the organizers do not really place sustainability as the anchor of organizing such events.

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Event Farm

JULY 8, 2022

To ensure that your attendees return to your conference year after year delivering a memorable event experience is key. Cost buy-in certainly helps (if you’ve bought a plane ticket, registered and booked the hotel you’re far less likely to flake out), but some sort of emotional or personal buy-in helps lock people in for the long run. “If

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Spinning slowly in a grandiose ballroom or stepping inside a hotel suite, the ocean view through the doors to the balcony—the next generation of virtual reality (VR) can deliver so much more than pretty worlds through clunky goggles. Wouldn’t you rather forget where you are for a moment and feel like you’re there?

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GEVME

JUNE 27, 2018

Lodging: You’ll find many venues that offer accommodation or provide some discounts on lodging in nearby hotels. Through partnerships with hotels, conference venue hosts gain a competitive edge that makes it a popular practice. Inquire where the food and beverages are coming from. Conclusion.

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Event Marketer

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the omicron variant dashed some organizations’ event plans at the eleventh hour, the brands that were fortunate enough to activate this season delivered creative work that just might spark inspiration for your 2022 events. Over the summer, KFC invited brand fans to “chick-in” to its House of Harland pop-up hotel.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Predictably, big trends impact all industries—including event planning. These are some of the hottest event-planning buzzwords of 2017. Virtual reality (VR) can be used during the course of event planning. These events also tend to be smaller, more relevant and therefore more engaging to the individual.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

IACC currently has ambitious plans for growth, as it continues to strive to represents the top 1% of small to midsize conference and meeting venues globally. In addition, the membership community will welcome shared workspace meeting venues and small specialist boutique venues.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

That’s why we pioneered Hilton EventReady with CleanStay , designed to provide curated solutions for every step of the event planning process. Inspired, Innovative Food & Beverage Solutions.

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Social Tables

AUGUST 31, 2017

Some of the best sources of revenues for hotels are events, meetings, and conventions. hotel marketing tactics you can start using today that will impress event planners and make your hotel an easy choice for future events. Create an Event Planner Package to price out rack rates and offer a bundled price.

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Floktu

JANUARY 15, 2018

We’re here to show you how to get those little details and quantities right for the food and drink at your first event! Food Preparation. As an event planner you should always have food on hand especially if people will also be consuming alcoholic beverages at your event.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 24, 2019

One of the key challenges for planners is to ensure that you carefully manage expenses and revenues to achieve the financial goals that have been established by your organization and accurately measure your event success. The chart below shows an overview of the most common expenses for meetings and events. Vendor commissions (hotels).

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Since pop-up events can be face to face with target audiences directly engaging or virtual with video calling, or even a hybrid of them both, it’s important to hold these events at locations that have basic amenities. They can be held in hotels, resorts, parking lots, unused retail offices, shopping malls or even in empty buildings.

Food and Beverage 150

Food and Beverage Retail Social Media Technology 150