February Education Program - Planner/Supplier Roundtable

Pricing:

• Members - $45 until 2/14 | $55 2/15 to onsite
• Non-Members - $55 until 2/14 | $65 2/15 to onsite

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Join us for supplier/planner roundtable discussions.  Table discussions will include - 

1. Sourcing and Proposals
   • Do you like to be prospected by hotels?  How do planners find hotels to source?
   • Bookings and proposals – what makes a proposal stand out?  How to best receive proposals?  What are hotels looking for vs what planners want.  Concessions?  Are hotel sales people becoming less responsive to RFPs?
   • Rates/ Budgets/Outlook for 2024 - Are you predicting more or less?  Are you looking for group to fill leisure holes?  Planners - what is your booking window? Are your expenses increased or decreased from last year?
2. Hospitality  Trends
   
   • What’s in and what’s out? How are you adapting?
   • Service Charges – what are you calling them?  What are you charging? Are you disclosing where they are going?
   • Resort Fees
   • Event Attrition - how to manage?  Last-minute cancellations?  Hotels - do you charge attrition?
   • Increasing Pricing/Fees and Inconsistent Service from Suppliers
   • Airlines Cancellations and Delays
   • Staffing  - is this still a thing?  Are you asking for staff-to-attendee ratios?  Are planners still asking about this?  IS everything operational at your hotel?
   • Dietary Requests - Best Practices from planners in collecting these items and suppliers on how to execute.
     
3.  What is your biggest day-to-day challenge at this time?  What advice do you have for fellow planners/suppliers?