Meetings Management - Altogether Another Skill!

According to advocates, planning meetings with the same purchasing disciplines as corporate travel procurement can help companies save 10 to 30 percent, including incremental savings on group travel, and may introduce interesting synergies for the purchase of transient business. This session will tackle the complexity of meeting planning focusing on changes in the industry over the past 12 months; identifying and quantifying meeting spend, segmentation of meetings, ownership issues (decentralised vs centralised meeting planning), supplier relationship management, agency and 3rd-party fees, the balance between savings vs successful outcome, how to minimise cancellations, contractual pitfalls, security issues and tax implications related to product incentives and events.