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Webinar Wrap - Hotel and Contract Negotiations

Meetings Focus Webinars
A wrap-up of our March 26th webinar, now available FREE on-demand!
Robyn Mietkiewicz

Strategic Hotel & Contract Negotiations, Part 2

Speaker: Robyn Mietkiewicz

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Join Meetings Focus and Robyn Mietkiewicz, director of global meeting management services at Meeting Sites Resource, an award-winning speaker and past president of MPI's Orange County chapter, to discover how to up your game when it comes to meetings and events contract negotiations.

As a result of participating in this session, you will:
Review key hotel contract clauses and risk-mitigation tips
Know how to reduce, or eliminate, hotel fees and surcharges
Discuss dispute resolution methods/hotel audit process
Understand why hotel contract risk reduction/cost containment has become an important value metric
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Take 10

Negotiation

Are there any differences that you could note in negotiating with European hotels? I've found that they are less likely to have the same attrition clauses as U.S. hotels. Would you say this is common or not?
Clearly there are many unique challenges to planning, negotiating and executing international meetings. Typically, attrition and cancellation clauses vary by both country and hotel, and generally are in the 10 percent room reduction range...
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