Smart Meetings
MARCH 21, 2025
Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. By negotiating F&B pricing upfront, planners can ensure a cost cap clause to avoid dramatic price hikes. When negotiating transportation contracts, look for fuel surcharges and make sure there is a liability.
Smart Meetings
MAY 3, 2021
“When you work in consulting, nobody likes you,” Alison Fragale begins the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “ How to Harness the Power of Negotiation to Master Your Post-Covid Events Career.”. Negotiation is a science and an art,” Fragale says. We’re more afraid of advocating for ourselves, negotiating for ourselves,” she says. “We’re
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Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
One of them, “Must Have Contract Clauses,” was led by attorney Joshua Grimes, who touched on the latest in contract negotiations, such as force majeure clause changes, F&B cost increases, security issues and new laws ahead. You can negotiate it back in, but what’s the difference? Let’s look at Covid. We want them to grow.
Smart Meetings
MARCH 7, 2025
With fewer daycare services available, many of the remaining providers are priced beyond affordability for hospitality employees. Hotels will likely give less room for discounts or concessions, and early contract negotiations will be crucial to locking in favorable rates.
Prestige Events Magazine
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Steve Jones, CEO,believes we will see further polarisation of offerings in sectors that are labour heavy, such as hospitality, with the size of the squeezed middle growing. Negotiations will continue to be complex and lengthy especially around rate and cancellation terms.
Smart Meetings
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
A near unanimous number of members from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, the largest labor union in Nevada, and the Bartenders Union Local 165 have voted to authorize a strike on the Las Vegas Strip, following tens of thousands of hospitality workers casting their votes at Thomas and Mack Center on the University of Nevada’s campus.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.
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