Smart Meetings

AUGUST 25, 2023

As event managers, our goal at the end of a long-awaited event is to ensure meeting planners and their constituents are happy. This couldn’t be more true for our profession—especially when large events require months of planning and preparation. Be Transparent with Your Budget On that note, come prepared with a budget.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2025

Surprise Perks Leave a Lasting Impression Most meeting planners evaluate hotels based on predictable factors: space, facilities, amenities, and cost. A thoughtful upgradebe it a complimentary spa voucher, a room upgrade, or a personalized welcome packagesticks in a meeting planners mind long after their initial visit.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. DeWitt suggests checking out the free National Network Hospitality page.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

How has the Los Angeles hospitality industry fared during the fires? Los Angeles is well-equipped to host events of all sizes, with a proven ability to adapt and ensure a seamless experience for planners and attendees alike. Read More: Los Angeles, a Planner’s Paradise What should meeting professionals know?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

How liable are planners when disaster strikes? What can planners do to protect themselves? That is why he strongly recommends planners include indemnification clauses in their contacts, ensuring hotels and third parties take on as much of the risk as possible. Too many planners don’t adhere to a venue’s guidelines.

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Endless Events

JUNE 8, 2020

Because it’s no secret to anyone that event planners tend to use stress as a badge of honor, right? The extraordinary Lee Papa is an internationally recognized Mindfulness and Meditation speaker and trainer, specializing in the Meetings, Events, Hospitality, and Travel industries. How does it help professionals in the industry?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Planners meticulously manage the attendee experience , but often activity vendors also play a major role in influencing how someone remembers a trip. I always want to get the site visit representatives and event planners out on our activities to show them a good time,” he says. “If Billy Mosblech. “I Mike Murray. Mosleblech says. “Of

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Experts offer tips and ideas for meeting professionals As the year slowly comes to a close, many financial and insurance meeting planners may be thinking about what they should be keeping on their radar. That is the question planners could be asking themselves. of hospitality partners are expecting that many events.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Over the last year, Smart Meetings wrote about contract and budgeting tips and trends this year for the event planner who wants to keep on top of their financials, so they can keep creating memorable experiences. Time to Adopt a Barrister Pricing Model? “Meeting professional” is a relatively new career track.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

See in action how planners can amplify it to multiply ROI. Angela Minardi The event kicked off with a keynote from Angela Minardi, founder of Fit City Adventures , who redefined wellness and broke down how planners can better incorporate iteasily. Wellness is already in events DNA. Wellness] is not just 6 a.m. Brain Breaks.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 3, 2023

Switching careers to discover your passion There is a near endless list of jobs in the world but some people were just born for events and hospitality. Maybe It’s in the Blood Although she was born to parents who worked in hotels, Natasha Pereira chose a different route on her way to the hospitality world.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Wenks holds over 20 years of experience in executive hospitality leadership, most recently serving as vice president of the sales organization for Omni Hotels. He brings over 25 years of experience in Hawaii’s hospitality industry, plus thoughtful leadership skills and the expertise of a local.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

When she began attending college at San Jose State University, she was quick to join their Hospitality Management Program. Preparing for the Exam Nguyen was exposed to the CMP designation early on. “I Her organization and preparation for events support this success. I love the Bay Area,” she says. “It

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Smart Meetings

JULY 29, 2022

In addition to carefully selecting a venue for its sustainability policies, event planners are now enlisting the services of consultants that specialize in disaster response and mitigation. How Planners Can Beat the Heat. Read More: Code Red! Your Fix-It Guide for Today’s Event Emergencies.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2023

Thinking about how to bring restaurant quality and restaurant style of attention, creativity and welcoming hospitality into non-restaurant environments that range from a workplace to an outdoor space or similar setup,” Brunson said. that’s what we focus on, making sure that welcoming hospitality and personalization still comes through.”

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As meeting and event planners responsible for the safety of sometimes thousands of people, we cannot take anything for granted. 2: Always Have a Backup Plan (or Several) As a meeting planner, you know that not having a Plan B, C or Z, means you are doomed. Does the venue have specific protocols that event planners have to follow?

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Social Tables

JANUARY 4, 2018

Using a combination of research and survey data, we’ve rounded up the 18 most important trends set to hit planners, hotels and venues in 2018. The hospitality boom isn’t going anywhere. The more you can prepare your clients for the higher prices on the horizon, the less friction you’ll encounter when it comes time to close the deal.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 5, 2024

Preparing for the Exam She started by creating a study plan, broken down week by week. Not only is it a valuable study tool, but a study group is a community of planners who support one another through the process of earning an ambitious designation and share the passion for events that inspires a person to pursue it.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2022

Now, industry leaders are opening doors to encourage, engage with and invest in new faces in meetings and hospitality. In Tuesday’s webinar, Peckinpaugh addressed how to be a competitive and clued-in recruiter and leader, how to prepare the next generation for meetings and how to prepare the industry for the next generation of talent.

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Endless Events

APRIL 6, 2018

Meetingsbooker.com, one such platform, has opened up their statistics so event planners can understand current trends in the space. There are also legal regulations already in place that we as event planners need to be aware of so that your audience’s data is protected. So does the hospitality business, and the corporate world.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whether planning private celebrations, non-profit fundraisers, or corporate conferences, the goal of the event planner is to visualize their client’s idea and then bring that vision to life. But how do event planners accomplish this task? What does an event planner do, exactly? So what does an event planner do?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Across the hospitality industry, meetings and large-scale events play a significant role in the success of hotels, restaurants, clubs—really any venue. Meeting planners can save both time and budget by leveraging the hotel’s suggested menu rather than outsourcing food and beverage.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Career aptitude tests pointed her towards hospitality. “I With a hospitality management background, I was aware of the certification but wasn’t sure where my career would lead me and if I would actually need it,” she says. “It She joined a virtual study group to prepare. By high school, she wasn’t sure.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s a dream come true for me, as it allows me to combine my passion for hospitality and my heart for ministry,” she says. She says, “I have always been interested in learning and growing both personally and professionally and discovered quickly that experience holds a lot of value in the hospitality industry.” It’s truly a calling!”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In a post-pandemic events setting, experienced and credentialed event service professionals can help meeting planners, who face new audiences in different places through hybrid technology, attendance building challenges, expanded safety needs and city-wide labor shortages. What ESPC Proves.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Event professionals know no matter how well prepared you are for an event, the possibility of something going wrong is always there (a la Murphy’s law). Not only can this be inconvenient for planners and attendees, but factor in traffic and the general complications of travel that can happen, and the potential for issues multiply.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2023

After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Hospitality Business at Michigan State University, Howell worked in numerous hotels across New York City before relocating to Utah, where he served as director of learning and development and later director of rooms at Waldorf Astoria Park City.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

See in action how planners can amplify it to multiply ROI. Angela Minardi The event kicked off with a keynote from Angela Minardi, founder of Fit City Adventures , who redefined wellness and broke down how planners can better incorporate iteasily. Wellness is already in events DNA. Wellness] is not just 6 a.m. Brain Breaks.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In the meantime, many destinations have been readying, renovating and innovating to prepare for the return of tourism and group travel. A relatively new arrival to the Cabos San Lucas hotel scene is The Cape, A Thompson Hotel —an alluring event space for business planners that opened in 2015. Here’s an update. At 2,155 sq.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

“With a state-of-the-art convention center, an abundance of hotel rooms, ease of accessibility, award-winning dining and world-class entertainment, Orlando offers everything meeting planners need to create memorable experiences for their attendees,” she said. “We We invite meeting planners to build the agenda, and we’ll bring the excitement.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

This week marks a year since the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas , which reminded meeting planners and the hospitality world in the worst possible way of the need to prepare for the possibility of a live shooter situation as part of every pre-event planning. Should you add an MTS to your planner emergency kit?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Meanwhile, Visit Houston worked with Hotel & Lodging Association of Greater Houston and Greater Houston Restaurant Association to create a Houston Hospitality Employee Relief Fund to provide supplemental support to anyone who may have incurred losses because of vacancies. “We Hospitality Strong Won Day.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 5, 2024

Yotel Geneva YOTEL Geneva In Geneva, Switzerland, YOTEL—a global hospitality brand known and celebrated for subverting the status quo—opens its first Switzerland location and 22 nd property. Planners can custom configure the venue’s seven total meeting spaces to accommodate the unique needs of their meeting.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But what really stood out to me is how the story demonstrated once again the invisibility of the meeting planner role. Three professors from different schools of hospitality management weighed in, but no conference organizer — as in the professionals who actually decide on the convention centers to host events — was quoted.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2019

Instead of a single breakout session to plant trees or build a bike, meeting planners are expanding CSR elements into the everyday programming. I’ve seen groups work together to prepare extra meals at a welcome reception which are then donated to a local food bank. Utilizing the Destination. Timeless Tips for Building Bonds.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The real magic behind the process is how everything is prepared in advance, starting June of the year before. A veteran audio technician takes us through the entire process, this is a thorough example that preparation is everything in events. Preparation is everything in events. Click To Tweet.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Imagine crafting an event like preparing a Thanksgiving dinner, where every ingredient, every dish, and every seat at the table has been considered with intention and care. Inspired by Burning Man’s “Net Positive” approach, planners are designing events that don’t just minimize waste but actively leave a positive impact.

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