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Are Family-friendly Conferences in Your Future?

Smart Meetings

If that is the case for your attendees, here is a checklist of things to look for from a venue and the benefits of traveling this way. This will help narrow down the venue. This could mean places with fun attractions such as theme parks, zoos or historic sites. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites.

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11 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a DMC

ADMEI

You want a company that knows its city well and has built excellent relationships with venues and vendors in the area. Partner with a company that’s taken the time to form positive relationships with venues and vendors of all kinds. And that’s not all you can expect from ADMCs! How long has the DMC been open?

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

As I prepared to review the venue’s meeting spaces, room set options, and traffic patterns, I thought about how, today, competent logistics are the new meeting minimum. And they assume that when attendees are not in sessions, we should ply them with food and drink and entertainment.

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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. Get Your Party On.

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Remote-Work Movement Changing Downtown Atmospheres

MeetingsNet

With office-occupancy rates below 60 percent in many cities, there are fewer dining, entertainment, and other service options than before Covid. Should planners add this factor to their site-selection research? The reason? cities; New York is at 46 percent, says this Wall Street Journal article.

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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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Benefits of Hiring a Professional Event Planner

Blue Spark Event Design

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. Venue Management. because you can leave these tasks to the event planner.