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Managing Citywides/Attrition
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Planning Citywides: Tips and Trends
Planning Tips and Trends
Commentary: End of the Room Block or End of an Era?
Let's consider what might be lost to the rampant commoditization sweeping the hospitality side of the industry....
After the Flood: Moving a Meeting in Six Weeks
The Healthcare Financial Management Association relocated a 5,000-person meeting across country with great success...
A Think Tank To Meetings in 2010 and Beyond
As we enter the second half of the second year of the worst recession the travel industry has ever experienced, we know that associations-and their meetings-may never be the same...
Supply-Side View: Association Meetings in 2010 and Beyond
Site selection is tremendously important to the success of an association meeting. Who better than hotels and destination marketing organizations to give us an overall view of trends...
How the American Volleyball Coaches Association Made its Convention a Must-attend Event
Kathy DeBoer calls it the big-tent strategy. It's the broad principle that has helped her association, the American Volleyball Coaches Association, experience a 56 percent spike in attendance in the past three years, including a jump of nearly 20 percent in 2009...
Citywide Contracts and Negotiations
Attrition and Force Majeure: Your Questions Answered
Attorney James Goldberg addresses readers' questions ...
Best Practices for Reducing Attrition Liability
When it comes to room-block attrition fees, hope for the best, plan for the worst...
Have You Been Hit with Attrition Penalties Lately?
We asked religious meeting planners about what they’re doing to contain attrition penalties...
Your Contract Negotiation Wish List
A panel of planners and hospitality partners at the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners 2010 Northeast Region Summer Meeting recently shared their biggest wishes for the negotiation process. Can we all find common ground? Check out the conversation...
Here Comes the Sun?: State of the Industry 2010
As the lyrics of the famous Beatles song proclaim, is the that is to say, a better economic climate coming? If so, what will that sun mean to group meetings?...
Understanding a Hotel’s RevPAR Equation
Revenue Per Available Room, or RevPAR, is the measurement that controls whether the hotel sales department accepts or rejects a piece of group business....
Cost-Saving Ideas for Citywides
20 Ways to Save on Your Next Association Meeting
Tips for working with CVBs and shaving food and beverage costs...
How to Save Money on Guest Rooms
DON'T GET STUCK ON RATE. Hotels can be very reluctant to budge on the room rate. If you can't get them to move, work to gain concessions in other areas:...
How to Save on Transportation
Here are some tips on how meeting planners can save money on transportation...
How to Save on Hotel Guest Rooms and Meeting Space
Here are some tips on how meeting planners can save money on hotel guest rooms and meeting space. ...
Affordable Citywides
15 strategies for keeping citywide meeting costs down...
20 Tips for Finding an Affordable Meeting Site
Deals for the Budget-minded Meeting Planner...
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