How to Slim Down Your Meetings and Events Food and Beverage Spend

Food and beverage costs can eat up a significant amount of a meeting or event budget and are typically the biggest or second-biggest expense item

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Bonnie Wallsh's Meetings Budget Musts

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Meetings food waste reduction tips

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10 Risk Management Tips for the In-Person Meetings Ramp-Up 

Resiliency means being prepared for tomorrow.   To thrive in the “next normal,” the meetings and events industry needs a complete mindset

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Take 10 questions from Budget Tips: Making More and Spending Less, Part 1, with Bonnie Wallsh

  Does Bonnie have a sample comprehensive budget template she can share? PCMA’s Professional Meeting Management has a

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Airport Travel Tips During the Government Shutdown

Sarah Kloepple and Christoph Trappe discuss recent airport travel experiences during

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Airport Travel Tips During the Government Shutdown

Sarah Kloepple and Christoph Trappe discuss recent airport travel experiences during

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4 Tips to Plan Unforgettable Events Infused With Hawaiian Culture, Wellness

At Queen Kapi‘olani Hotel, where

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5 Ideas to Make Flat Budgets Zing!

F&B expectations are up, F&B budgets are flat. What’s a planner to do? Plenty!Start by discarding all your notions of what is

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10 Ways an Events Services Professional Can Maximize Your Meetings Budget

As everything that goes into a organizing a meeting starts to add up, budget dollars can disappear pretty quickly.

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Sustainable Serving Tips: MeetGreen Special Edition

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Strategic Negotiating Tips

The only thing constant in our industry is change, so this workshop will arm you with tactical strategies that will help you negotiate and defend

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Take 10: F&B: Creating Impressions on a Budget

1. With some of the outrageous prices for coffee, what do you suggest doing in order to save on beverages and beverage breaks?To

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Essential Legal Tips for Event Cancellation and Postponement

Editor's note: This information was accurate at the time of publishing, March 12, 2020. We are monitoring and updating as

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A Budget Itinerary

Competitive hotel rates, easily accessible, economically priced meeting facilities, a variety of dining options and free or affordably priced

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Wolfgang Puck Catering’s 10 Tips for Creating a Safe, Socially Distanced F&B Program

The unforgettable 2020 is drawing to an end with the pandemic continuing into 2021, yet live, in-person events are slowly resuming

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Essential Travel Wellness Tips From Naturopath John Ayo

Traditional naturopath John Ayo has made his living on the road, first for IBM for more than 30 years—including as a meeting planner—and

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7 Tips for Staying Safe AND Sustainable As We Resume In-Person Events

In-person events are starting to come back, it’s time to start thinking about

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5 Tips for Incorporating Spa Services Into Meetings

It’s not hard to surmise the correlation between the pandemic and the rising demand for spa services. Since they were able to reopen, resort spas

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Visit Florida Funding Cut in Budget Outline

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.It appears that Visit Florida has been unable to catch a break

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