Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2023

Force Majeure clause and employment classifications changes coming for MPs The legal nuances of meeting planning can be a bit overwhelming even for the seasoned planners. To offer some helpful insight in what areas to be on the lookout for, Smart Meetings sat down with Ty M. Force Majeure.

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2023 Meetings Contracts Government 244

GEVME

AUGUST 15, 2019

Strategic meeting management is introducing more and more organisations into their work. Having a skillful strategy helps to avoid overworking a week before the start of the event and becomes a negotiation advantage when talking with investors. The top 5 conference & meeting planning trends of 2019–2020.

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MPI

APRIL 11, 2023

As we get closer to GMID 2023, we’re honoring some of the MPI members in Canada who led volunteer efforts in the 1990s and understood before many others why the importance of our industry and its monetary and intrinsic value needed to be understood by governments and business. The energy in the room that day was palpable.

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Education Negotiating 2016 Government 87

SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The rigorous CMP exam was “developed and is maintained by meeting professionals from all over the world who volunteer their time to ensure that the program reflects the best practices in the meeting management field,” as it states on EIC’s website. In many organizations, the meeting planning function is viewed as administrative.

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Education Hospitality Telecommunications Negotiating 105

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future?

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Negotiating Site Selections 2014 Hotels 45

Endless Events

APRIL 7, 2020

“Again, as I said before, it depends on the law that governs your contract, which is usually where your meeting is going to be held. And groups are asking me, can we cancel today if a meeting is at the end of June? Many companies provide meeting plan services to clients in exchange for hotel commissions.

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Contracts Hotels Government Events 91

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

To see the results, whether I’m negotiating, conducting programs or leading a training session, it’s important to always do my best. to become a logistics expert with the government. Keys to my success: Success is just one meeting at a time and treating every client like they are the only client. I’m my biggest competitor.

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2017 Hospitality Hotels Sports 76