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Your Event Goals Should Determine Your Venue Contract — Not The Other Way Around

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Newbie event planners will often pick a venue, negotiate a deal with them, and sign the venue’s provided contract. . Here’s how your event goals can (and should) change your venue contract in those areas. If they expect a big networking space and the venue doesn’t have an appropriate space for that, it could be a deal-breaker.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

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Since her mother was traveling in the 1990s, laws have changed to require hotels to contract for ADA rooms, guaranteeing they will be available when the person arrives, rather than making it upon request. DeWitt suggests checking out the free National Network Hospitality page. It’s a cultural fit.” Still have questions?

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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

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A Renewed Group Focus “Just hold the contracted meetings that are on the books and minimize the cancellations that have occurred in prior years due to the pandemic, economic uncertainty and a general reluctance to hold in-person meetings,” said Dan Piotrowski, senior vice president of operations for Omni Hotels.

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10 Best Tips to Make the Most of Your Event WiFi

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Know Your Audience . No different from anything else in event planning, to have the best event wifi you need to know your audience. All of these questions are important to answer and let your internet provider know about your audience to ensure you have the best connection possible for your event. .

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Price-Conscious Wow: How Meeting Planners Find More Value With AV Partners

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But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. By signing a contract with a venue, meeting planners can quickly lose their freedom to choose their AV provider. It’s about achieving intimacy with your audience.

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State of Virtual Meeting Tools

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A streaming option can serve larger, more geographically diverse and executive audiences, act as a flexible insurance policy in the event a new threat grounds attendees while providing valuable data about behavior. We need to be more intentional about networking and create more intimate introductions,” she said.

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The Mega Guide to Live Streaming Events

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Live streaming events is a great way to expand your reach and make your content and programming available to a new audience. There’s a lot of benefits to live streaming events, but truly successful live streamed events are more about audience engagement and less about technology. Do you want your remote audience to be able to network?

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