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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

Endless Events

Event profs can plan conventions, exhibitions, corporate events, meetings, fundraisers, weddings, and other events. Event planning is a viable career for those who study: Marketing, PR or mass communications, Hospitality or hotel management, Business administration, Human resource management. Event planning is an umbrella term.

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Hospitality Strike Votes Could Increase with Arrival of High-Tech Hotels, Minimum Wage Increases

Smart Meetings

The union’s members voted August 15 to walk off the job at month’s end if a new contract deal isn’t reached. Although employees in the city did vote to authorize a strike, this is a common tactic in the course of contract negotiations and does not mean that employees will actually strike,” the spokesperson noted. An August 31 Deadline.

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How Event Professionals Are Feeling About Their Jobs

Convene by PCMA

The responses event professionals wrote to open-ended questions in our 30th Meetings Market Survey, conducted in late summer, illuminate what they have on their minds in a different way than their answers to multiple-choice questions. I don’t think my organization fully embraces the importance of meetings and events.”

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Travel Managers Dish on Salaries, Structure, and Satisfaction

MeetingsNet

GBTA/Cvent survey respondents, the majority of whom have some meeting responsibilities, cite moderate pay raises in 2023 as well as high job satisfaction—but also an inclination towards finding a similar role in another organization. Canada, and Europe, 61 percent of whom have meetings management as part of their jobs.

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People on the Move

Convene by PCMA

She will be responsible for events hosted in any of the resort’s indoor and outdoor meeting spaces. She has served as director of finance and human resources for a decade and has been instrumental in overseeing numerous vender contracts as well as elevating the bureau’s budgeting, financial reporting, and human resources functions.

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Bookmark These Top 30 Websites for Event Planners

Bizzaboo

Skift Meetings (formerly EventMB) Formerly known as EventMB, Skift Meetings was founded in 2007 as one of the first blogs for event professionals. Over the last three years, Skift Meetings has hosted more than 80,000 attendees at 26 webinars and events, published 27 reports, written more than 500 articles, and more.

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Considerations for Deciding When to Return to Live Events

ITA Group

As we embark on 2021 with the hope of a vaccine, it’s getting easier to envision a future where we meet again. When determining the risk of your event, there is a lot to consider from the first go/no go decision through contracting and up until the weeks before the event takes place. Contracting. Risk Assessment.