You can’t always predict when storms or unforeseen events will affect your meetings, but you can protect yourself with a good force majeure clause.
Force majeure, meaning a superior or irresistible power, is the name of a contract provisi...
Tech whiz Brandt Krueger at one of the #IMEX15 campfire sessionsMeeting and event technology consultant Brandt Krueger was a fountain of information on all things audiovisual during several sessions he led at IMEX America in Las Vegas. Here are j...
Where kids are present, companies must be sensitive to three legal issues: liability, liability, and liability. Some will decide that the most prudent approach to kids is to provide no programs or services for them. If no programs or services are...
CWT Meetings & Events is out with its 2016 Meeting and Events Forecast, and the outlook for meeting planners in North America in the next 12 months is tough! Extremely high demand (the highest in more than 30 years) is still so far ahead of...
Heads up! Association planners should keep their eyes—and their contracts—on potentially disruptive developments that could put their meetings' viability at risk. Photo: Thinkstock by Getty ImagesWith associations typicall...
Meeting and event online solutions company Cvent recently surveyed more than 2,000 of its clients to find out what makes meetings tick these days. Here's a sneak peek of some of the results unveiled at the Cvent Connect conference last week in in...
As a meeting professional, you are in a position of choice each and every day. You choose the venue, meals, speakers, and how to allocate an event budget, among countless other tasks. Great meeting influencers do this unconsciously. But in your...
John Foster, Esq., CHME, attorney and counsel whose firm Foster, Jensen Here are a few negotiating nuggets gleaned from attending industry event sessions led by John Foster, Esq., CHME, who serves as outside legal counsel for Meeting Professional...
