Ninety percent of hotels surveyed expect a continued increase in their average daily room rate this year, according to Washington-based Krisam Group, 30-year-old national sales group for independent and unique hotels. The increase is expected thr...
No matter how they charge for their services--a flat fee, cost of elements plus a markup percentage, or itemizing everything--independent event professionals are facing increasing pressure to justify the value of every event dollar. This was the ...
LOOKING for flexible event space can be a challenge. Hotel ballrooms land convention center spaces offer many amenities, yet often come with restrictions such as existing decorative features, rigging, high costs for accessing power, and catering ...
MY phone has been ringing lately with plenty of media calls. They range from the serious — a business reporter from USA Today asking about the size of the special event market — to the frivolous — a “reality show” producer looking for outrageous ...
TIP: When space is sparse, small fireworks can make a big impression.
Alysha DiGiorgio, pyrotechnician and director of sales and marketing at Digital Lightning in Kensington, Md., notes that the most important factor in determining the type of f...
LUXURY-car dealers are hard to impress. Their stock in trade is high-performance cars, they are regular guests at high-octane parties. But when was the last time they saw a car drive on water? For dealers at the BMW 3 Series launch in Ireland, it...
ALONG with athletes giving it their all at the Winter Olympic Games in February, a catering team was also striving to show off its best — Culinary Capers Catering, a 20-year-old company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. President Debr...
WEDDINGS are one occasion when the right location is a requisite. In the current event market, that often means taking the festivities out of traditional wedding locations such as hotels and private clubs. But with the move into unconventional ve...
DESIGNING and constructing a venue to hold 5,300 corporate event attendees on scant notice would have been challenge enough for the team at Calgary, Alberta-based XV-Experiential Events. Add to that an 11th-hour entertainment emergency, and one c...