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Hybrid Venue Checklist: Here’s What To Look For!

Endless Events

And in order to help you get things running, we compiled this hybrid venue checklist, complete with everything you should be looking for. Today, we start with a hybrid venue checklist. If the weather allows it, we highly recommend that you look into venues that offer both indoor and outside spaces. Indoor & Outdoor Spaces.

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Live? Virtual? Hybrid? There’s Only One Wrong Choice for Team Building

Smart Meetings

Local regulations: Regulations also vary considerably from place to place. The governor of Nevada recently announced , for example, that large venues can do away with mask mandates as long as attendees are fully vaccinated and raised the attendance limit to 4,000. . The venue also matters. The post Live?

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5 Questions for Your Next Site Inspection

Smart Meetings

With this and ever-changing rules and regulations about Covid-19 safety, what is a meeting professional to do? How Concerned with Safety Is the Venue? What are the venue’s safety standards? Find out how the venue managed during the height of Covid. What is the Venue’s Cancellation Policy? Where will lines begin?

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How to Secure Your Event in the Face of Rising Active Shooter Incidents

Smart Meetings

We asked Mark Herrera, director of safety and security for International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM), for strategies to improve security at events in light of these ominous statistics. An event in an open-carry state may need more security than an event where guns are strictly regulated. Assess Security Requirements.

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Surveys: Med/Pharma Meetings are Growing

Smart Meetings

While the content and quality of the speakers are first and foremost in attendees’ minds, it is clear that factors such as the food and destination, in addition to industry regulations, still play a pivotal role in shaping how planners tackle sourcing and agendas. Spas are often misconstrued as a bribe of sorts by regulators.

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What Event Planning Best Practices Are Here to Stay?

Smart Meetings

The most recent seasons have taught us that venues with the ability to quickly adapt to their environment and their experiential offerings were the most resilient in a time of peak uncertainty. Having a clean venue is an element that contributes to the atmosphere and attractiveness of an event. Superb Sanitation Measures.

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Responsibility In Events: What If Someone Gets Sick?

Endless Events

“And that’s one reason why we’ve always fought for more regulation and more systems and barriers to entry” The Blame. Or is it the venue? And I think second to that, the venue holds a big part of this because restrictions are restrictions. And that, of course, brings a lot of feelings to the table.

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