Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. That prime hotel you want downtown will only work for your group if it’s well-staffed, well-maintained and provides the experience and environment you need to make your meeting a success. Here are some things to consider.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This could mean places with fun attractions such as theme parks, zoos or historic sites. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites. When completing site visits or going on a FAM trip, determine if the hotel provides a childcare service onsite or can offer a listing of sitters who can come to attendees’ rooms.

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Plan Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer. Here are a few simple things to do during your next hotel or venue selection. Next time, request that someone from hotel security go along with you for the stroll. 1) Ask about safety in your RFP.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A 7-Step Process A true process will go beyond RFP sourcing and site selection, contracting and negotiations. 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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EventMB

APRIL 20, 2023

Skift Take: As hoteliers and venue operators struggle to conduct quality post-pandemic site visits, planners are having to expend more time and effort to ensure successful site selection. Louise Felsher Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 5, 2024

Pioneering hospitality leaders forged new paths to top of LA hotel world The hospitality landscape in Los Angeles is filled with bold female leaders brave enough to break away from the Mad Men norm to bring their unique leadership styles forward for the benefit of their organizations, the industry and future hospitality professionals.

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Special Events

MARCH 30, 2022

Five tactics that put safety issues top of mind when you’re picking a hotel or venue.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 30, 2019

Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer. Here are a few simple things to do during your next hotel or venue inspection. . Next time, request someone from hotel security to go along for the stroll. We, as planners, can prepare for when bad things happen.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The conclusions of the Cvent report support the notion that site selection is much like pumpkin picking. In other words, prime hotel bookings for your group’s meeting may require signing on the dotted line sooner rather than later, before someone else beats you to it. Shorter Windows and Smaller Groups.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Rising hotel and airline costs , along with increasing demand for more and longer meetings is pressuring planners to make critical choices to stay in strict budgets, according to a new study by American Express Meetings & Events. Site selection often requires some give and take on both sides of the negotiating table.

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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. That language will then be shared with the hotel during the contracting process to come to a mutual agreement on terms. Now is not the time to skip a site visit.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 1, 2023

A significant percentage of meeting professionals say the NAACP’s advisory will be a factor in site selection. Another 46 percent believe that the advisories will not affect their site-selection decisions, while 14 percent of respondents are unsure. The advisories in Florida are likely to affect our choices : 24.3%

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

You’ll find more than 100 hotels and 18,000 hotel rooms in Fairfax County alone, ranging from economy lodging to 4-star luxury properties. These hotels are ready and waiting to be your home away from home, and you can also bank on many of these hotels offering free parking. Reason 3 ½: We work on your BeHALF.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This connection is evident in the fact that eight of ten meeting planners choose Tucson after a site visit. Site selection isn’t just a matter of who has rooms and where – it’s about culture and the opportunity to have a real experience. Revitalized Urban Core. Tucson’s Destination Downtown is heating up.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A meeting professional’s expertise can go in any number of directions: marketing, adult education, event design, site selection, contracting, event technology … It’s a dynamic role. If your hotel operates a regular maintenance procedure, then you will be much safer.”. Here are some resources to help you understand the basics.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2018

If you haven’t already, it’s time to get to the drawing board to book off-site activities and venues for next August 10 to 13. Smart Meetings recently went on a FAM trip hosted by Experience Columbus to scope out the area and make your site selection job that much easier. The hotel has 135 guest rooms, 5,464 sq.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 28, 2023

After all, a hotel that’s connected to a regional utility whose power is, say, 80 percent derived from fossil fuels produces significantly more carbon than a hotel whose regional utility uses 40 percent fossil fuels and 60 percent renewable sources such as solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This connection is evident in the fact that eight of ten meeting planners choose Tucson after a site visit. Site selection isn’t just a matter of who has rooms and where – it’s about culture and the opportunity to have a real experience. Revitalized Urban Core. Tucson’s Destination Downtown is heating up.

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Endless Events

JUNE 2, 2020

In fact, she’s meeting planners’ go-to expert in Canadian hotel site selection, helping hotel sales connect better with planners. Joining our incredible host Alex Plaxen is the wonderful Leanne Calderwood. Leanne is a self-proclaimed introvert and an icon of the events industry.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 29, 2017

Location and venue play an important part in the site selection process for a conference or event. Most hotels will require a Fire Safety Permit to be submitted before the commencement of the conference set up. GRANTS AND INCENTIVES.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A 7-Step Process A true process will go beyond RFP sourcing and site selection, contracting and negotiations. 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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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2017

For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. Brett Sterenson, Hotel Lobbyists. “In-house

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2019

One respondent actually was hoping for a slowdown, mentioning this wish-list item for 2019: “A downturn in the market so hotels become more flexible in their revenue-management practices.”. Increasing prices from hotels is killing me!!!” The economic verdict in Davos, according to Bloomberg ? One respondent commented: “BUDGET!!!!!!

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 13, 2017

The 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey collected information about the number, size, revenue, and budgets for meetings industry during 2015, as well as information about site visits, booking windows, housing, and other topics: .

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Connect Your Meetings

MAY 23, 2017

The lack of turnover made the move to HelmsBriscoe an easy sell for Malark after spending most of his career with hotel brands like Promus Hotel Corp. It’s also the hallmark of a company celebrating its 25th anniversary this year as one of the industry’s leading site-selection agencies. and Doubletree.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

So if a convention hotel says they had a great June, that means they had a lot of events occur in June, all of which were likely booked months or years prior. Leisure travel will return first, and when air and hotel numbers start going up in decent numbers, that’s a strong indicator. Hotels will be converted to apartments.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 19, 2024

Rhanee Palma Rising global temperatures impact not only the health and safety of participants, but meeting design and site-selection strategies, said Rhanee Palma, CDME, operations and events manager for the Davis, California–based UC Davis Air Quality Research Center (AQRC).

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In the restaurant and hotel sector, in particular, this can result in more employees with only a basic level of training working at meetings, receptions and meals, or a lower ratio of staffers to guests. Ask to See Hotels’ Customer-Satisfaction Surveys. Provide the Hotel with Details ASAP.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

It wasn’t COVID-19 that kept Sandra Geiger, a global account executive with ConferenceDirect, from visiting Hotel Effie, a 250-room hotel in Sandestin, Florida, before she signed a contract for an association group meeting in July — it was because the hotel was still under construction. Virtual Site Visits.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A new toolkit for employees at hotels, convention centers, and special-event venues can provide planners with deeper perspective on what to ask during site selection. The most recent toolkit touches on those areas as well as others that have come to the fore since that first resource was released.

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Connect Your Meetings

JUNE 6, 2019

Most recently, he was a third-party operator for a housing and site selection company. Back in my hotel days, I lived out west in the Rocky Mountains and I missed that. He spent nearly two decades as a hotelier before bringing that perspective to Connect (then Collinson Media & Events). It’s a metro-mountain mix.

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Eventsforce

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A: If a planner is just starting a search, the CVB and DMO can provide support when looking for a venue or hotel by consolidating and bridging communication with these properties. Q: How should meeting and event professionals utilise CVBs and DMOs to enhance their planning capabilities?

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Chances are, numerous other planners will be vying for the same space and this issue is compounded by hotels with reduced staffing being forced to host fewer events. Safety needs to be considered before, during and after site selection.

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Connect Your Meetings

JUNE 7, 2019

The second would concentrate on event operations, including site selection, site visits and day-of drama. Hotels, destinations and vendors have the potential to spotlight their properties and services—and especially with the influencer program, spread the word quickly.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 9, 2021

With that in mind, Smith co-founded Tourism Declares Climate Emergency to unite tour operators, DMCs, hotels, and every type of business in the travel industry to do its part to cut carbon emissions. We may go and stay in a massive hotel, but we go and have dinner at the tiny, neighborhood restaurant. … On the Program.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We’ve spent nearly thirty years building relationships with the most iconic hotels, brilliant spaces, and creative venues around the globe. Our hotel and venue relationships give us access to locations that deliver the right attendee experiences from moment to moment and provide the perfect backdrop for important brand events.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 17, 2018

The cuts on hotel commissions are making site selection an inadequate revenue stream for many third-party planners. This is despite the steady increase in hotel bookings for business groups and events. Are you one of those who made wage with hotel commissions? Click To Tweet. Tips for Growing Your Event Revenue.

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