Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Hotels have storm preparation plans and protocols for severe weather in place, and our staff is well trained to implement these plans,” said Hector Mastrapa, senior vice president of risk management with Marriott. “We One of the newest entries to the risk response list is the company’s Covid-response plan.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

He will implement innovative strategies to garner business from meetings, events and leisure clientele while driving growth and greater awareness to the hotel. He has worked in the hospitality industry since graduating from high school and has held positions at Loews Chicago Hotel, Loews Hotels & co.,

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 28, 2020

Yesterday, the Events Industry Council issued the Health and Safety for Hotels Accepted Practices Guide. The task force’s hotel work group used the various guides issued by hotel companies as well as resources such as the AHLA Stay Safe program, and other global resources, as a starting point to develop a baseline.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can also be effectively used by meeting and event teams of all sized to deliver better end products. Effective procurement strategies not only ensure that companies get the best value for their money but also play a role in risk management, innovation and corporate social responsibility.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 9, 2023

A veteran security consultant says that planners should implement many of the same protocols used for executive-level events across all their meetings. Everybody in the convention center and in our hotels are all safe.” Then, planners must communicate that information to the audience at the start of the meeting.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Greg Sparrow, senior vice president and general manager at CompliancePoint, an Atlanta-area consultant for cybersecurity and risk management, bemoans the fact that repeated occurrences of data theft at major companies in recent years has led to a “desensitization” of public reaction. Try to silo your risk,” he begins.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The definition of “risk” has grown beyond the traditional definitions of financial, operational, reputational and security issues meeting professionals checked off their list as they prepared to bring people together in days of old. Defining Risk. Risk categories include financial, operational, reputational and security/safety.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 14, 2023

is a travel planner who often finds herself in unfamiliar cities in the US and abroad on hotel site inspections and destination FAMs. “I On one occasion, however, the hotel had booked her on the ground floor of a hotel which was also near the garage, a security no-go because of its easy proximity to possible bad actors.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

a Smart Meetings podcast, host JT Long, vice president and content director of Smart Meetings, explores essential strategies for ensuring safety in an increasingly risky world. Kevin Coffey : Kevin Coffey is our travel security and meeting risk advisor and trainer. In this episode of What One Thing? ,

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 16, 2018

While recent events have most meeting professionals focused on preparing for active shooters and weather catastrophes, it’s infinitely more likely—probable, even—that someone at your event will have a medical issue. Here are the steps he recommends to create a proactive medical risk management plan.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2021

Meeting professionals leading the way back to the convention center are increasingly finding themselves between a pandemic and a hard decision. Read about the 25 Hospitality Trends waiting for meeting profs on the other side of the pandemic. . We have created a safety pledge regarding our events and meetings. TheEventVaxDebate.

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Eventinterface

JUNE 20, 2017

Meeting and event professionals are very much aware of the security challenges generated by bringing people together. In recent days, we have been confronted once again by televised images of terror being inflicted on participants at events, walking a bridge or attending a meeting.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 30, 2020

The group is addressing health and safety, community, global ecosystems, reskilling the industry , innovation, digital transformation , advocacy and risk mitigation. Destinations International’s “We’re Here to Help” recovery campaign was designed to unify the meetings, events and travel industry. Preparing for Return to Meeting.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Cartotto is complex director of security and risk management for Caribe Royal Orlando in Florida. Smart Meetings spoke with Cartotto about what new security trends next year may have in store. Managing the Physical Space. What Meeting Planners Should Ask Hotels.

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EventMB

JUNE 16, 2022

Whether you participate in corporate event planning, association event planning or agency planning, you will have to consider how much risk you are willing or able to take. Maybe your risk management protocols prevent you from holding an event in a neighbouring country to Ukraine even if you wanted to.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Being the person that speaks up at a holiday event planning meeting and addresses tough, valid and scary concerns around the safety and well-being of your guests, could earn you the nickname Ebenezer Scrooge, but rest assured you will soar to the top of the “nice” list when you save Christmas! The answer is two words: risk management.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 25, 2021

Meeting professionals today are risk managers. Pandemic-era contracts now require contract clauses that include Hotel Protocols and Policies for Covid-19 prevention. The planner can get dinged if attendees are able to get lower rates at the same hotel, so focus on room nights. Reasonable Care. Key Clauses.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The beginning of a new year brings the promise of new events, incentives and meetings. Though lockdowns similar to what we experienced at the beginning of the pandemic aren’t likely, meeting destinations may be impacted by ever-changing local restrictions or ordinances around vaccinations, testing requirements, etc. Build in More Time.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While some hotels are doing the right thing by taking Covid safety protocol seriously, even offering on-site testing, it’s especially important to have contracts squared away. Meeting professionals today are risk managers.” —Ty Sheaks. State laws are varied. Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era. Anthony Capuano.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 1, 2024

Electronic hotel-room keycards with a security vulnerability puts a new risk-management issue on planners’ plates. A meeting professional’s responsibilities are far reaching, but they haven’t typically required knowledge of the host hotel’s guest-room door keycard system. That’s changed. Grimes asks.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 16, 2024

Even if that more adventurous perspective doesn’t make you any happier about them, they’re a necessary part of the meetings and events industry. Another reflection of the higher costs resorts and meeting facilities are facing is showing in the amount of the deposit. The post 2024 Contracts Playbook appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 6, 2017

It used to be, planners could focus their efforts solely on the success of the meeting or event. Severe weather, earthquakes, protest demonstrations and, yes, acts of terrorism or mass violence must concern every meeting planner now. This applies to all venues, whether it’s an aquarium or high-rise hotel or a tent.”

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

However, APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Event Standards or ASTM Green Meeting Standards (the short form) was conceptualized in order to help other event planners to understand the kind of practices that should be put to use to organize a sustainable meeting and reduce event waste. Meeting Venue. Accommodation.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 5, 2017

It can be challenging for those in the meeting planning profession, but looking on the bright side really does pay off. Event planners are no strangers to airport terminals and hotel check-ins. Most of their time on the road will be spent in hotel rooms, airports and attending to business-related obligations.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The study, which delved into top safety concerns women business travelers face, found that almost 69 percent of United States travel buyers believe females face greater risk than males and 61 percent feel it’s imperative to consider female safety when implementing risk-management programs.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 5, 2018

Business owners must budget for risk management even when there is no sign of trouble ahead. Drafting an effective plan requires you address three main priorities when organizing your initial meeting: Who is coming. The office is obviously the most budget-friendly location to hold your meeting, but is it the best option?

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SmartMeetings

MAY 16, 2017

As professional event planners grapple with security concerns at meetings , emergency preparedness has become a hot issue. Questions arise about who is responsible for ensuring that business meetings and association events are safe and secure environments (see “ Zeroing In on Security ” from the April issue of Smart Meetings magazine).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Airlines 100

Airlines Risk Management Travel Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

SmartMeetings

JULY 10, 2017

Finding a host city for a key meeting can be a geographic Rubik’s cube of schedules and locations that can seem impossible to solve. This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. Meeting space: 4.2 million sq.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Scheduled participants included 100-plus top travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines, hotels, coach, rail, tour operators and others. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100