Tips & Tools

Tips & Tools

Meeting budget, meeting savings, cost savings, event savings

How to Trim Your Meeting Budget

By keeping branding generic—no specific date, venue or hash tag, for instance—that means that banners, staff uniforms and other signage can be used year after year without having to be replaced.
Facebook, online marketing, event marketing, social media, marketing

5 Online Marketing Tips to Reel in Attendees

Your event hashtag needs to be short and memorable so that it’s easy for people to use before, during and after the event.
San Francisco, destination marketing, selling destinations, meeting destinations

5 Ways CVBs Can Help Planners Market the Destination

Most CVBs and DMOs have downloadable information and interactive maps for meeting planners to provide to their clients and conference attendees.
LILT Lounge, EPIC Hotel, Miami, cocktails, F&B

LILT Lounge Mixes Up Summer Offerings with Cocktail Series

“We want to show guests that the art of cocktailing is not only fun, but easy."
Shangri-La Hotel Paris, Paris, hotel-room costs, meetings budget

5 Ways to Cut Hotel Room Costs

Hotel brands such as Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts offer loyalty programs for meeting planners to be able to earn and redeem points for groups, meetings conferences and events.
Meditation, Mindfulness, Workplace Mindfulness

5 Ways to Incorporate Mindfulness in the Workplace

Set aside a couple minutes by yourself or with coworkers to be mindful before walking into a business meeting.
Big Data, geolocation, data meetings

4 Ways Big Data Can Drive Your Events

Meeting planners can give attendees access to specific information, prizes and downloadable materials to help draw them into a specific trade-show booth or presentation located just a few feet away.
meeting app, event

4 Tips for Boosting App Adoption

Educate not just attendees, but also speakers, exhibitors and sponsors who have a lot to gain from using the app.
Capella Marigot Bay Resort and Marina, Saint Lucia, Caribbean, ancient shipwrecks, diving

Shipwreck Dive in Saint Lucia

Six diving excursions over three days are available and will take attendees to nearby diving spots where they will swim amidst diverse coral reefs.
New York Visionary Summit, Langham Place, Agnes Canonica, CMP, AHM, international travel

6 Travel Reminders for Meetings Abroad

As meeting planners take attendees to more exotic destinations, it’s important to know the specifics of what’s required to travel abroad before signing a contract.
New York Visionary Summit, AMEX, Global Meetings Forecast, Linda McNairy

4 Meeting Trends From Prevue’s New York Visionary Summit

Four rising meeting trends are positively impacting meetings productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. Do you know what they are?
New York Visionary Summit, meeting, risk management, meetings safety, traveling abroad

7 Health & Safety Risk-Management Tips for Global Events

For meeting planners who didn’t attend our NY Visionary Summit, here are seven reminders and words of advice about health and safety risk management to consider when organizing a global event.
event, negotiating

It’s All in the Details When Negotiating With Venues

When negotiating with venues, consider that new venues are often hungrier than established ones, and they are often more willing to negotiate and provide discounts.
Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort, Jimmy Buffett, Hollywood Beach, Florida

Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Offers Group Perks

Attendees meeting here will be able to relax under a beach umbrella or participate in body surfing, paddle boarding and surfing on the FlowRider ride.