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An Outstanding Year for Venues of Excellence

Prestige Events Magazine

Mandy Jennings, CEO and Owner of Venues of Excellence reflects on 2024 and the power of the sales and marketing consortium for independent venues. As 2024 draws to a close, Mandy Jennings, CEO, reflects on the incredible progress and achievements of the past 12 months for the consortium and its member venues.

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Foxhills Inspires Colleagues with International Women’s Day Event 

Prestige Events Magazine

The panel included Alessandra Antonelli, Head of Marketing at Addison Lee, Alison King, CIPD, MD and Founder of Bespoke HR, Danielle Fletcher, Transactional Banking and Liquidity Director at Santander, and Raelene Antao, Global Head of Compliance and Governance at DVA Group, who offered practical advice and inspiration to the Foxhills team.

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The Smart Meetings Incentive Experience Modeled Positive Behavior

Smart Meetings

Author, TEDx programmer, adventure seeker, speaker and proud father Joshua M. Instead of being governed by our preconceptions, we need to be open to the realities of others, he advised. Read More: Meet the 2024 Platinum Choice Award Winners Meeting on Purpose Joshua M. Evans proposed focusing on perception.

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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

Read More: Sustainability as a Practice Defining Sustainability The discussion began with a broad overview of what sustainability means to each speaker. Action Plan With so much to consider, as the speakers addressed, deciding where to get started is the most difficult part. She is also an FICP board member. What’s in your RFP?

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

Smart Meetings

Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. Warner also advised using force majeure clauses to deal with any issues arising from government funding cuts. Ask the venue to provide a breakdown of all fees.

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Meetings Recovery Continues Upward Trajectory, According to New Report

Smart Meetings

In the report of 98 global venue operators, Europe (including Sweden, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands) and the Americas are showing encouraging signs of a meetings industry increasingly seeing itself in a better place as the weeks pass by. Hybrid Is Down. Social Responsibility and Sustainability.

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Contingency Plans Save the Day for Events, Again and Again

Smart Meetings

Hargrove sets an example for planning events that go off without a hitch through their government shutdown contingency plan After the venue booking, event design, attendee lists, emails, emails and more emails, your event is all ready to go—finally! government may face a shutdown on Oct 1, the final day of the festival.