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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...

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....

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 Savings/Budget

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

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. ...

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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Creating Green-Meetings Standards

An industrywide effort to produce achievable, voluntary standards for greener meetings and events is under way. The Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX), an initiative of the Convention Industry Council, is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and ASTM International Standards to create baseline guidelines that both meeting managers and the hospitality community can embrace. Join us for a free webinar.


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What Meeting Planners Need to Know to Manage E-Meetings

Virtual meetings save time and money, get a thumbs-up from the “green” crowd, and offer new ways for companies and organizations to communicate, market, and sell. It’s time for meeting managers to start booking and managing them.
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CVB Supplement 2008

The Changing Face of CVBs

Featuring:
*Changing Face of CVB's
*CVB's Go Green

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