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Mastering Event Contracts: Essential Negotiation Strategies for Meeting Planners in 2025

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Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. “I think it goes to the wisdom of making sure you lock in food and beverage prices as early as you can, Warner offered. This helps to demonstrate consistent room block fulfillment and possibly negotiate better terms.

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Contract Clauses Planners Need in 2024

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Cohen, a partner at Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen LLC, who specializes in entertainment, criminal defense and hospitality law, to chat about what planners should consider adding to their contracts in 2024. Gratuities Minimums for food and beverage. Smart Meetings sat down with Darryl B. How many comp rooms are available?

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Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business

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Room setups are still requested to be socially distanced and we are offering food and beverage in a separate space with more room to spread out. Larger meetings of more than 100 are conventional meetings in execution, but with Covid safety protocols being followed (spacing, sanitation, food presentations). of meeting space.

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Contract Clauses You Need in 2025

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Tyra Warner, assistant professor and department chair of Hospitality and Tourism Management at College of Coastal Georgia, has seen hotel negotiations from every angle. in hospitality. in hospitality. You don’t want inferior food product, but you need to manage prices, so it is difficult, she says.

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A Breakdown of Post-Pandemic Contract Clauses

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Sheaks, who deals with law in the restaurant and hospitality division, breaks down the force majeure process and points out the risks and legalities event planners and producers should be aware of when booking an event in a world recovering from Covid—where last-minute changes have become a regular, anticipated occurrence.

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You Can Negotiate Away Annoying Hotel Fees

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billion for all manner of fees and surcharges, according to Bjorn Hanson of New York University Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism. I have heard of planners negotiating out this fee,” says Lauren Wolfe, a lawyer who publishes the website killresortfees.com. Last year, the U.S.

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Event Contracts: What to Watch in 2025

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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.