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How Planners Can Manage The “Easy Button” in Events

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Read more: Helpful Budget Tips for Event Planners in a Post-Covid World Working with Third-Party Agencies Many third parties provide sourcing only, meaning they will find the destination, and other will assist in sourcing as well as contract negotiations. We’ve traveled, we’ve seen what hotels are coming up, we’ve connected with the CVBs.

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Helpful Budget Tips for Event Planners in a Post-Covid World

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“Room rentals used to be something that you would have to pay if you had a really low food and beverage minimum or if you were coming in within like 60 or 30 days at a hotel,” Pilcher reflected, “Now, you’re coming in and saying, ‘I’m bringing a thousand people to your hotel. Also, negotiate gracefully.

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Nine Ways to Make First-time Conference Attendees Feel at Home

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Whether you’re paying to travel and attend, or you’re attending from your home office for free, either way, we’re trying to drive that value for everybody. Ultimately, the experts agreed that attracting, and catering, to first-time attendees is non-negotiable.

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All-Inclusive Incentives: Stormy Waters or Smooth Sailing?

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Properties have realized this is a great market for them will work with you on how you package your food and beverage. “It’s It’s not just the standard all-inclusive package; they’re willing to stretch that boundary with you and I think that’s made a huge difference because the food part was a big detractor.”

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Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business

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While companies are segueing back to in-person, they also realize there may be some attendees are not able to travel yet. 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. He is also not seeing a lot or protracted negotiations.

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Share the Brand Love with Five Activation Ideas for Valentine’s Day

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Fun fact: Resy negotiated with its restaurant partners to hold the reservations for dates two weeks out—something that could help out last-minute planners or forgetful partners ahead of Valentine’s Day. The only people who were allowed to attend were wedding crashers.

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Budget, Innovation and Engagement Ideas Were Centerstage at Global DMC Partners Annual

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This reduces travel, housing and F&B costs. Other factors to consider: In addition to survey feedback, mapping where attendees are located and researching flight options can help to narrow down a location almost everyone can reach with the fewest travel delays. Like most things in life, timing makes a difference.