Smart Meetings

MARCH 29, 2024

Brennan Bastyovansky Brennan Bastyovansky, WTP Bastyovansky will serve as general manager of sales and marketing for World Travel Protection (WTP). He brings an extensive background in travel risk management, with experience in business growth, strategic development and building lasting relationships with customers and partners.

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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 additional resources are deployed to address activities that could happen right outside the hotel’s doors.

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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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MeetingsNet

MAY 9, 2023

In an ironic twist, the Risk Management Society had the final evening of its 2023 Riskworld convention in Atlanta cut short last week due to an active-shooter situation that, while more than two miles away from the convention center, affected the shuttle-bus routes between the center and several hotels in the room block.

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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 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 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

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

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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MeetingsNet

APRIL 16, 2018

Here are the steps he recommends to create a proactive medical risk management plan. Identify all of the health risks that could be associated with your program. Coordinate with your hotel security, and your corporate security team if you will have one on site with you. You are not alone.”.

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Risk Management Management Food and Beverage Travel 62

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. After moving to the United States, she earned a meeting management and MBA while working full-time in sales departments of various hotels.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She presented a special session at Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals’ (FICP) 2022 Annual Conference titled, “Event Risk management: 2022 Risk Categories.”. Defining Risk. Any interruption to pre-planning or on-site execution that disrupts an event is a risk,” Warwick said.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The answer is two words: risk management. Event organizers and hosts are responsible for the safety and well-being of their guests and the risks associated with events, in particular the serving of alcohol can be especially daunting. How can a holiday party planner be responsible for saving Christmas?

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Eventinterface

JUNE 20, 2017

Mark Deane, CEO with ETS Risk Management brings years of experience to this conversation. Mark is a risk management specialist whose experience stems from his career working as an Operational Officer for the British Government. Hotel security teams are generally not executive protection specialists.

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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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But for the day-to-day, bread-and-butter meetings and events, planners don’t always bring the risk discussion into the picture. This is what I want them to start paying attention to—whether it’s a small meeting at a local hotel or a medium-sized one, risk should be considered. KC : Absolutely, JT. They won’t always be there.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Cartotto is complex director of security and risk management for Caribe Royal Orlando in Florida. This practice has been implemented by most—if not all—hotels, but using VMS could help hoteliers identify high-touch areas not previously thought about. What Meeting Planners Should Ask Hotels.

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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. What if a hotel cancels due to bankruptcy?

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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. Nevertheless, risk remains.

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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.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

To best be prepared and aligned with the hotel, it is important to address so you establish a shared agreement as it relates to the pandemic and its impact on a program. We advise working with your legal and risk management to establish acceptable approaches to what could be problematic, what solutions will be explored and the timing.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 16, 2024

Read More : Risk Management: Events are Risky Business Extra costs could also show up indirectly in hotels showing less flexibility for what can be charged to the bill post-program, or just overall less “wiggle room” because the venues are trying to cover their own higher costs. Be an early bird. Don’t skip the site visit.

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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

JUNE 30, 2020

MD: We’re at a crossroads because everything is changing quickly, and the reality is different in different areas of the country and different types of hotels. That includes the airplane and how you get from the airport to the hotel. Hotels have always done a good job of cleaning. All the paper in the room is gone.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2021

Foster from Foster, Jensen & Gulley has suggested in the past that hotel protocols and policies for Covid-19 prevention be included in contract clauses, the fact that “prevention” is impossible made following stringent regulations even more pressing. Or is it location based, and a mutual understanding between venue and planner?

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SmartMeetings

MAY 5, 2017

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. Since event planners are always tasked with managing a million moving parts, their brains are definitely getting a workout.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

Blanca Ferreris, CMP, CMM, works in Woodhaven, New York, as a s enior business events manager at RIMS, Risk Management Society. What I do: I am responsible for contracting more than 75 hotel agreements per year. I manage our exhibitor housing and hospitality processes (more than 31,000 peak room nights).

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

This component includes everything – right from hotels, motels, hostels or any other setup which can provide sleeping rooms to the attendees. When it comes to food and beverages, the restaurant, hotel or the independent caterer, each one of these falls into this category. . Are there various hotels around this particular place?

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Hans Ritten Loews Hotels & Co announces Hans Ritten as the new general manager of Loews Chicago O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois. He blew over from another Windy City property, Omni Hotel Chicago, where he was general manager.

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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?

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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?

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Airlines Risk Management Travel Speakers 100

SmartMeetings

JULY 10, 2017

This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. Don’t worry if you have to stay an extra night to fit in your day of fun; Orlando comes in first in affordable hotel prices. Meeting space: 600,000 sq. Meeting space: 600,000 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

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?

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Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

SmartMeetings

APRIL 20, 2021

How can meeting professionals assure them—and their risk managers—that it is safe? We will motivate these leaders to act by unapologetically reinforcing the value that our industry brings to people, businesses and communities. A new APCO Insight survey shows that business travelers are eager to return to face-to-face meetings again.

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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