The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

Recently, our events team sat down to discuss the top challenges facing our industry today and how to address them. With the inflation rate currently reaching 8.5%, food, travel, shipping, hotel and labor costs are all escalating. Can the agenda be adjusted to fewer days or sessions, thus reducing hotel and food and beverage costs?

Meeting Planning 52

Meeting Planning Meetings Food and Beverage Travel 52

Event Leadership Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Most event planners today are self-taught and learn on the job. This apprenticeship model is pretty much how any trade is learned, from being a blacksmith in the middle ages, to today’s event planner, until the educational system creates a curriculum for teaching the trade in a uniform way. How to sell your event vision to the client.

Management 40

Management Event Management Food and Beverage Site Selections 40

Master the Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

We’ve been event planning and hosting face-to-face meetings for a dog’s age and in dog lingo that’s a long time. I of course am biased (extremely biased) when it comes to the event and meeting planning industry. Event, meeting and conference planners are responsible to organize and manage all parts of events, meetings and conferences.

Event Planning 40

Event Planning Food and Beverage Site Selections Negotiating 40

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

In participating in the nominating process for our Best in Show awards program this year, DeBolt, director of meetings and events for PLM World, singled out Roberta Tisdul, CMP, senior convention services manager for Visit Indy, in our Convention Services/CVB category. Senior Event Manager, Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), Philadelphia.

2017 76

2017 Trade Shows Insurance Food and Beverage 76

All Seated

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Event planners and event attendees both want instant access to information – whether that’s through audio assistants in the rooms (Hello, Google and Alexa), touch screen venue wayfinding, or even chatbots. Other AI-powered technologies are already redefining event check-in experiences and likely to trickle into meeting venues soon too.

Venues 34

Venues Meetings Food and Beverage Site Selections 34

Eventinterface

APRIL 5, 2017

Planning a corporate event brings its own challenges. Karen Shackman, Founder of Shackman Associates New York, shares top tips you need to keep in mind when planning your corporate event. Site selection can make or break a meeting. Historically, a venue’s location and reputation can be a strong draw for an event.

Corporate Events 100

Corporate Events Food and Beverage Site Selections Insurance 100

PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

A 30-percent drop in revenue will be devastating to the thousands of independent planners who serve association and corporate clients in the site-selection and event-planning process. On one side, site-selection companies allow hotels to run leaner. A Closer Look at the Hotel Commission Model.

Site Selections 67

Site Selections Food and Beverage Contracts Negotiating 67

Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. H: Meeting or event design.

Meetings 62

Meetings Food and Beverage Risk Management Contracts 62