Contracts & Negotiating

Among the assorted new hotel fees, planners report being asked to pay for things that they never would have dreamed of being asked to pay for in the past.

Marriott has launched a simplified way for planners to search, source and book sleeping rooms and meeting space for small groups.

Check out these contract tips for 2023 from Kimberly A. Pendo, a founding member of Chicago Law Partners and recent speaker at FICP's Annual Conference.

Even as hotel rates are already up more than 18% in 2022 and are predicted to increase another 8% in 2023, hotel fees and surcharges appear to be on the rise as well.

The annual meeting of Prevue Advisors, held Monday at Delano Las Vegas, revealed a past year fraught with frustration but also some solutions for dealing with the new normal.

Planners report that fees, surcharges and mandatory gratuities appear to be making a comeback in 2022.

Here are three meeting industry lawyers event planners can turn to for top-notch legal advice.

Whether it's to review a contract or settle a dispute, these 5 meeting industry lawyers are top picks among meeting planners.

Force majeure clauses just got trickier: Attorney Kimberly Pendo provided some contract tips to help meeting planners manage risk in today’s uncertain COVID-19 environment. Contracts, including Force majeure clauses, must be top of mind, even...

In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, force majeure has taken on added importance and issues related to the pandemic should be included in your contracts.

If Accor and InterContinental Hotels Group do merge as reports predict, will this create one of many monopolies and what will this mean to the industry?

In these times of COVID-19 uncertainty, planners are becoming more reluctant to commit to long-term hotel contracts due to the chance of cancellation.

COVID-19 has resulted in a virtual world where we meet, conduct business, socialize, and undertake contract negotiation online.

During a recent Prevue webinar and in an accompanying white paper, Katie Muck of Meeting Sites Resource shared hotel contracting tips.