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Are Family-friendly Conferences in Your Future?

Smart Meetings

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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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

And they assume that when attendees are not in sessions, we should ply them with food and drink and entertainment. Far more space is devoted to entertainment and food and beverage. And good event design is about how a conference works. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. No related posts.

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11 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a DMC

ADMEI

CVBs assist planners by providing information on local resources and services, site selection, and other pre-conference and post-convention services. For example, if the primary purpose of your event is entertainment, you should choose a DMC that’s well-versed in sourcing entertainment venues and partnering with AV companies.

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Where’s the Meeting Planner?

Convene by PCMA

convention centers used criteria generally understood as key to site selection: exhibition space, meeting rooms, total space, distance from the airport, hotel availability, meal price, arts/entertainment, food availability, and walkability. The Wall Street Journal ’s recent ranking of the top 30 U.S.

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2019 ASAE Preview: 8 Ways to Enjoy Columbus, Ohio

Smart Meetings

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. Get Touristy. Baseball will be in full swing in August.

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Benefits of Hiring a Professional Event Planner

Blue Spark Event Design

Meetings, conferences, trade shows and events are essential for a company’s improvement. Sure, you still need to make decisions, but by hiring an event planner you alleviate the time and money needed to endlessly research, procure, and confirm event elements such as venues, caterers, decorations, and entertainers, etc.

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The Inc. 5000 List Gives Insight into Meeting and Event Trends

MeetingsNet

5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies is out and some of the entries provide insights for meeting planners into what trends in travel and entertainment they should be paying attention to. With multiple locations in conference cities like Orlando, Fla., Gating level. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image.

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