Failure to plan for disaster can create dire consequences
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Brad A. Goldberg
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For meeting planners who don’t have a contingency or safety plan in place—or for those who need to update an old plan—creating such a document can seem overwhelming. But industry experts say that meeting buyers who ask lots of questions, do research and simply think through what’s needed will easily pull it off. And yes, it’s vital to have a plan in place.
But there’s no need to panic when starting to generate a plan, says Brad A. Goldberg, owner and CEO of TriGold Consulting, who teaches this issue to meetings industry students and professionals.
The first step is trying to envision what types of problems might occur.
“Everything that could arise falls into four areas,” Goldberg says. “There are natural disasters, such as storms; accidental issues, like something medical; technological; or an incident of human frailty, such as crime, terrorism or a privacy issue.”
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Contracts: Covering Your Assets, Part 2
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Now that you are fully aware of the potential legal and financial liability issues associated with contracts for your meeting, do you know how to effectively address them in meeting contracts? And how do indemnification provisions and release and waivers work?
Join Meetings Focus and hospitality industry attorney Barbara Dunn of Howe & Hutton, Ltd. as she facilitates Part 2 of an informative and interactive webinar on liability issues and risk management techniques.
Participants will learn the following:
- Identify risk management techniques such as indemnification and release/waivers
- Understand the key language to include in various risk management contract provisions
- Learn how to effectively implement release and waiver agreements with meeting attendees
- Discuss methods of resolving liability disputes when they arise.
Earn CEUs: This webinar is worth 1 clock hour of continuing education toward the initial CMP application and recertification through the Convention Industry Council.
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Contracts: Covering Your Assets, Part 1
Original Air Date:
November 14, 2012
When it comes to protecting your organization from legal and financial responsibility, how have you handled such critical issues in contracts for your meetings? What requirements have you built into contracts to ensure that suppliers for your meetings will act in the best interest of your organization?
Join Meetings Focus and hospitality industry attorney Barbara Dunn of Howe & Hutton, Ltd. as she facilitates Part 1 of an informative and interactive webinar on liability issues and how to effectively address them in contracts.
Participants will learn the following:
- Identify types of liability such as tort, contract and statutory
- Discuss the various types of vendor contracts and the associated liability concerns
- List the different types of insurance and coverage amounts you require of vendors
Earn CEUs: This webinar is worth 1 clock hour of continuing education toward the initial CMP application and recertification through the Convention Industry Council.
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A wise person once said: “If we don’t change, we don’t grow.” Last month Kelso & Company announced the acquisition of Swank Audio Visuals, as well as plans to merge Swank with PSAV Presentation Services. Today, the organizations made it known that Kelso’s acquisition of Swank has been completed, that the merged company will be led by Greg Diekemper, Swank’s President and CEO, and that it will adopt the PSAV name.
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If the U.S. economy falls over the "fiscal cliff," it would have an immediate and severe impact on U.S. business travel, according to new research from the Global Business Travel Association Foundation.
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In the continuation of the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Future of Meetings Research Series, the MPI Foundation released a second supplement to its white paper, "From The Outside In" on the future of meeting design and individual needs.
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JW Marriott Austin hosted a ceremony to commemorate the official groundbreaking of Austin's largest hotel, and JW Marriott's largest U.S. hotel to date.
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A new survey from Concur reveals the most stressful airports across the country: topping the list is Chicago O’Hare, followed closely by Los Angeles International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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The U.S. travel market remains strong despite a murky economic outlook for 2013. Aided by rising prices and corporate travel demand, the industry will grow 8% in 2012 to reach a record $303 billion, according to travel industry research authority PhoCusWright, in the new report "PhoCusWright's U.S. Online Travel Overview Twelfth Edition."
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