The amenity that most influences planners' booking decisions is discounted sleeping rooms, according to a Cvent survey of 800 U.S.-based meeting planners. Meanwhile, the most attractive amenity to their attendees is free Wi-Fi/Internet.
The surv...
Cvent has introduced the Promotions Hub, a new online service listing special offers on hotels and venues for meeting planners...
With hotel RevPAR expected to continue to grow through 2015, Michael Dominguez, senior vice president of corporate hotel sales for MGM Resorts International, offers advice to meeting planners on strategic negotiation practices.
16 Questions to Ask to Control Convention Center Costs
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A new company wants to improve your purchasing power by combining your spend on meeting and business services with that of other organizations.
Chicago-based Concord Strategic Partner Group is a group purchasing organization, or GPO, which works...
Our exclusive interview takes you behind the scenes as one meeting planner works to adapt his organization’s meeting in the aftermath of a crackdown on government employee travel
Over decades of experience with the entertainment industry, I've collected plenty of industry secrets and tips that I will share with you in my articles for MeetingsNet's IdeaXchange. Along the way I’ll drop some names: hot venues...
Savvy meeting professionals take note: a new infographic details how hotels can use group business to improve their bottom lines.
