Requests for proposal, a vestige of the old economy, have been used for decades to secure event space. For those of you who haven’t had the joy of dealing with RFPs, this is how it works: Event hosts fill out a lengthy form encapsulating their me...
Jamie Murdock, vice president of sales, Experient, told the crowd that the most important thing is to communicate early and often.Meeting professionals tend to have a love/hate relationship with their housing room blocks. Love because a good room...
Image by thanawong on Thinkstock by Getty ImagesThat sound you hear? It may just be shouts of joy from meeting planners greeting the latest corporate hotel rate negotiations forecast. As the fall corporate buying season kicks off, Bjorn Hanson, P...
Today’s planner has to deal with housing poachers who prey on exhibitors and attendees to get them to book in their block—whether they actually have a block or not. And then there are the attendees who’d rather book their rooms...
While having more qualifiers than expected for an incentive trip is great for a company’s sales reports, it can make a planner break into a cold sweat. That was the situation Lacey Hein, CMP, senior event marketing manager with travel and expense...
Planners may be reluctant to include Airbnb and other short-term home rental services in their official room blocks, but there’s no denying that they are becoming increasingly popular with attendees and exhibitors. So what happens if something go...
Jean-Michel Petit was a venture capitalist vacationing with his son in Peru when they left their high-end hotel one day and spent the night with a local family, sharing lunch, dinner, and breakfast with them. At the end of the trip, Petit thought...
Hilton is doing a test run on instituting a $50 cancellation fee at 24 of its U.S. Hilton, Embassy Suites, and Doubletree hotels, according to published reports. The company introduced the program in mid-November, which is scheduled to run for 60...
