Negotiating & Contracts

A good request for proposal gets to the heart of what’s most important to the virtual-conference organizer.

The GroupSync Engage platform from Groups360 allows planners to view and book guest-room and meeting-space inventory in real time without submitting an RFP. Other hotel firms will soon have the technology as well.

Could Covid-specific clauses in 2021 contracts narrow a meeting host’s rights rather than expand them? That’s the concern of industry attorney Barbara Dunn.

A comprehensive budgeting breakdown for online events

Industry attorney Joshua Grimes provides perspective on clauses that must change in future meeting agreements.

Republicans refuse social-distancing advice, throwing their convention into unknown territory. Two political convention veterans weigh in on what planners are coping with.

Bye, bye sellers’ market—planners need hotel contracts that won’t keep them up at night.