Take 10: Budget Questions & Answers

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Corbin Ball’s 11 Essential Event Tech Tips for Global Business Travelers

As more and more meetings go global, U.S.-based meeting planners need to familiarize themselves with the technology landscape abroad.While navigating

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5 Event Design Tips That Will Spark Your Creativity

Great event design gets its inspiration from a multitude of sources. Maybe that inspiration comes from

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5 Tips to Handle Room Poachers for Your Meetings

Room poaching is one of those stubborn meetings and events industry problems that deftly avoids even the best efforts to snuff it out.It’s the

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8 Tips and Trends for Well-Being During Group Business Travel

According to a recent global survey conducted by Hilton and Ipsos as part of the

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A Transgender Event Planner Shares His Journey and Inclusion Tips

While transgender meeting and event planner Chase Brunson is very comfortable in the industry he’s in, he also realizes that meetings and events can

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Global planners discuss international tips and trends

While organizing a conference close to home can be challenging enough, the task of planning one thousands of miles away in a foreign-speaking

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Southwest Airlines Changes Baggage Policy: Here’s What You Need to Know

Southwest Airlines announced a major change to its baggage policy that has caused confusion and headaches for many customers of the budget-friendly

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Essential De-Stressing Tips for Meeting Planners

It’s no shocker that the job of planning meetings and events can be quite stressful. We have to manage everything from speakers and hotel

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10 Meetings Industry Advocacy Tips

It seems it’s always open-season on the meetings industry, with politicians tossing the issue of face-to-face government meetings around like a

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Tips for Managing Connectivity

Free isn't free. There's still no “free lunch” in life, and this holds true for internet connectivity, even in coffee

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19 Event Planning Tips From SMERF Meeting Experts

Meeting planners operating in the SMERF—social, military, education, religious and fraternal—segment often have to stretch budgets and get creative

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6 Tips for Working With a Convention Services Team

Meeting and event planners working with a facility’s convention services team can help ensure their program is a success by providing some very basic

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7 Tips to Keep Meetings and Events F&B Safe and Sustainable

Food and beverage is typically the most expensive line item on a meeting budget, and the growing list of attendee dietary needs is one of the driving

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9 F&B Tips to Reach Your Meeting Sustainability Goals

Meetings and events F&B is undergoing a revolution on many fronts, with sustainability and healthy options perhaps being at the fore.In my 30-

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Tips for Organizing a Hotel-Based CSR Program

Jo Licata, community projects manager with the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, shares some actionable tips for planners looking to add a

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Tips for Organizing a Hotel-Based CSR Program

Jo Licata, community projects manager with the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, shares some actionable tips for planners looking to add a

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Veteran Planners Share F&B Tips and Sound Off on Frustrations

I’ve been in this industry for more than 45 years; 38 of those with my own company. In all those years, a month hasn’t gone by that the cost of

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