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      Simple Meetings: Everything Planners Need to Know

      Everything you need to know about simple meetings and your role in planning them.

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      TROOP Reveals Latest Insights in State of In-Person Meeting Planning

      Administrative Professionals play a pivotal role in the success of a meeting, spending more than 25% of their time planning meetings. MINNEA...
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      Offsite Planning For EAs: How To Avoid These Common Mistakes

      Common mistakes meeting planners make when planning offsites and how to avoid them.
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      How to Support Low-Cost, Sustainable Travel and Meetings When Budgets are Tight

      Sustainability is everyone’s responsibility, particularly when it comes to advocating for low-budget sustainable business travel. For today’...
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      The Vital Role of Efficient In-Person Meeting Planning Tools in International Business Travel

      International travel is vital for business growth, and effective corporate travel planners are key to ensuring that global meeting planning ...
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      3 Reasons Meetings Costs are Slipping through the Cracks of Procurement

      Procurement leaders are well-versed at cutting every possible cent from a managed travel program, particularly during periods where cost sav...
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      Small Meetings, Big Expense: Why Procurement Needs a New Approach

      If 2021 and 2022 were the years for reopening and returning to “normal” for corporate travel and meetings, then 2023 is the year of cost-cut...
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