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Managing Citywides/Attrition

A one-stop information source about planning large, citywide meetings.

Planning Citywides: Tips and Trends

Affordable Citywides

15 strategies for keeping citywide meeting costs down...

Convention Booking Crunch

What you need to know about booking a convention center nowadays...

What the Seller's Market Means for Planners

How to cope with a seller's market...

City Meetings: A Planner's Guide

Six tips for finding the downtown hotel rates you want...

Headquarters Hotels and Convention Centers

What's happening with headquarters hotels in major U.S. cities...

Centers of Contention

The controversy over convention centers: Are we overbuilding?...

IAEM's Response to the Brookings Report

Do we really need all these new and expanded convention centers?...

Risk Management Case Study

The American Academy of Family Physicians plans for a possible avian flu pandemic. ...

Citywide Contracts and Negotiations

John Foster’s Hotel Negotiating Tips

Good ideas and strategies for negotiating hotel contracts...

Tackling the RevPAR Equation

How to make RePAR work for you....

Negotiating Contracts

A one-stop information source about contracts and negotiations for meetings ...

Legal Ease: The Tangle of Hotel Ownership

How to figure out who's in charge now that nearly three-fourths of all hotels in the United States are operating as franchises and most hotel buildings owned by someone other than the hotel operator....

Cost-Saving Ideas for Citywides

20 Tips for Finding an Affordable Meeting Site

Deals for the Budget-minded Meeting Planner...

Cost Saving/Budget

A one-stop information source about budgeting and cost-saving strategies for meeting planners ...

Cost-Saving Tips for Meeting Planners: Transportation

Here are some tips on how meeting planners can save money on transportation...

Cost-Saving Tips for Meeting Planners: Hotel Guest Rooms and Meeting Space

Here are some tips on how meeting planners can save money on hotel guest rooms and meeting space. ...

Attrition Tips and Trends

Cornell Experts Propose Strategies for Hotels Challenged by Growing Internet Room Bookings

How hoteliers can avoid losing room share to third-party Internet competition...

Beating Attrition

Think about incentives for attendees...

Booking Around the Block

A list of some practical actions planners can take to avoid attrition...

List of more articles on attrition

collected by the Convention Industry Council...

Attrition Resources

Convention Industry Council’s Project Attrition

Includes -Event Organizer Timeline for Events with a Signed Contract -Event Organizer Timeline for Events Without a Signed Contract -Hotelier Timeline for Events -Convention & Visitors Bureau Timeline for Events -Decision-Making Matrix ...

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