If you think negotiating event contracts is only getting harder with each passing year, you are spot on.According to Meetings Today’s survey of 70

Proper meeting contract clauses are critical to protecting all stakeholders—and just may save your organization epic legal headaches. In today’s

Event professionals increasingly need to negotiate explicit

While producing engaging in-person events that feature the latest high-concept design and content elements is certainly something to aspire to, the

Meeting professionals are living in interesting times, as economic and political uncertainty have resulted in a general malaise in the industry.We

After a tumultuous half-decade, with the in-person meetings and events pandemic shutdown followed by unprecedented supplier-chain, inflation and

Every event contract is unique and so is every contract negotiation. But most groups, most events and most contracts share a few basics. We’re

Contracts are important to meetings and events in that they ensure both parties understand the terms of an agreement and have apportioned risk in an

Take 10: Contracts, Part 1 (basic)1. How do you defend the planner's position that liquidated damages should be

For those meeting planners who thought food and beverage prices were alarmingly high coming into 2026, it’s possible the news could get worse for

1. Are hotels liable to keep confidential the names of other groups? I send them a list of our competitors, but if I ask outright who else is

1-Develop Your Own Contract The ideal starting point for contract negotiations is to write your own version of

We sat down for a discussion with Therese Jardine, DES, instructor of

I reached out to two hospitality industry attorneys—Kelly Franklin Bagnall (KB), who works on the supplier side of our

Joan Eisenstodt answers additional questions from

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Include this cybersecurity clause in your contracts to protect yourself from potential lawsuits.

Include this cybersecurity clause in your contracts to protect yourself from potential lawsuits.  

Earlier this year, the issue of destination boycotts once again made the news, when

So much of my work during the 35 years of my business has been “crisis contract management”—that is, organizations discover that a