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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

It was a big contract, which took six months of negotiations to come to an agreement. Before having my new company, I already had a one-year contract signed for our first project for a hotel company. You had an event management agency during the 2008 crisis and lost 50% of your business in one week. How did you feel?

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The Ongoing Hotel, Boeing Strikes: What Planners Need to Know

Smart Meetings

For future events, the site also offers “model protective language [to] stay in control of your options by including these key clauses in your event contract.” The labor action underscores the importance for planners of doing due diligence on issues such as potential labor actions when negotiating contracts with suppliers, Jonathan T.

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Global Hotel Pipeline Stalled in 2021

Business Traveler USA

“During the previous recession, construction declines persisted from 2008 through 2010,” Hoyt said. percent and the total number of rooms under contract fall 3.5 percent from 2020, and over 236,000 rooms are under contract, nearly a 5 percent year over year decline. percent to just over 544,000. str.com.

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Risk360: Communications Policy

MeetingsNet

In 2008, a terror group attacked a hotel in Mumbai and held hostages for three days. Also read: Risk360: Do One Thing Risk360: Choosing a Location or Venue Risk360: The Contract Risk360: Developing an Emergency Plan Risk360: On-Site Safety. . • Define crisis levels requiring a communication response. (See graphic below.).

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EIBTM stays in Barcelona till 2013

Travel Daily Media

The new contract will start running in 2009 until 2013. ” EIBTM 2008 will take place from December 2-4. Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) has extended its agreement with Turisme de Barcelona and the Fira de Barcelona to make Barcelona the host city and venue for EIBTM for another five years.

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What’s Old is New, Again: Short Hotel Lead Times Lead to Problems

Brightspot Incentive Events

In 2015, we experienced an economic plateau after seven years of straight growth out of the 2008-2009 recession. Hold your internal stakeholders to a suspense date on their decision to move to contract. The contracting ‘supply chain’ has become a bottleneck as both sides (buyers and hoteliers) have become more risk-averse.

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Bye bye group bookings? Marriott cuts strategic meetings and corporate travel commissions in North America

Travel Daily Media

In the letter, Marriott said that it would honour the 10% commission fee for all contracts signed prior to that date. King added that Marriott continues to invest in improving groups and meetings, like its centralised group support desk and its group intermediary website which launched in 2008.

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