Posted in Event Marketing, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged aaa, Event, event planning, Gather, hotel, Housing, meeting, mobil, planning, rating, travel, venue on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
When you go on vacation, do you check the hotel website to see whether or not they have a pool? Or, find out if they received three diamonds or four stars?
If so, you know how important those things are when making a hotel selection. Do your attendees a favor, and include some detail on the [...]
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Posted in Green, Housing, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged element, environment, Event, event planning, Gather, Green, hotel, LEED, meeting, starwood, venue on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Starwood is fighting the good fight when it comes to the “green movement”. They have pledged that their new line of hotels, Element, based on the Westin concept, will all be built to the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED-Certification standards.
Hospitality Net has a great article with lots of detail about the concept, including how Element [...]
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Posted in Meeting Planning, Onsite, Tools, Venues, tagged boston, chicago, Event, event planning, Gather, hopstop, long island, meeting, new jersey, new york, planning, san francisco, transportation, travel, washington dc on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently returned from a meeting in Los Angeles, where I was the sole planner and on my own in a strange, new city. It was my first trip to LA. My dilemma? What should I do with the single, solitary hour I’d have all to myself? Luckily, I have friends who’ve been to LA many times, [...]
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Posted in Contracts, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged contract, Event, event management, event planning, Gather, meeting, meetingsnet, negotiating, planning on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Ask for what you want. That is the best advice you will ever get regarding negotiating. No, really - I mean it! So many people try to compromise even before the negotiating begins and they never find out what the other side is willing to offer!
I’m not saying that you should never compromise, or that [...]
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Posted in Event Marketing, Green, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged environment, Event, event planning, Gather, greenwashing, marketing, meeting, planning, venue on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you ever noticed that when you stay in a hotel, even if you give all the right cues during your stay, your towels still get washed every day? Or that the cleaning crew in your office tosses all of the refuse from the trash cans and the recycle bins into the same dumpster?
Nancy Wilson, [...]
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Posted in Event Marketing, Housing, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged Event, event planning, Gather, hotel, internet, meeting, planning, travel, venue, web on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Omni Hotels has rolled out the coolest thing since web check-in for flights. Web check-in for your hotel room! They’ve taken it one step further, too - you can check in using your web-equipped mobile device.
We all know that the smallest details can have a major impact on how attendees perceive the success of an [...]
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Posted in Green, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged environment, Event, event planning, Gather, Green, meeting, planning, venue on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
More on Green Meetings:
Whenever possible, use a LEED-Certified venue. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a system that the U.S. Green Building Council uses to rate buildings by the number of points achieved in sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, indoor environmental quality and innovation.
There are a number of LEED-Certified [...]
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