The Corporate Event Group LLC

28/08/2019

Whee! Our Owner & Senior Event Director, Maralynn Adams, had the honor of being interviewed about last-minute changes for an article in Corporate & Incentive Travel Magazine.

BTW...those never happen in event planning or film production. NEVER. 🤪

22/04/2019

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You'se that wanna learn more about how to market yourselves to meeting planners!

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If you answered yes to any of those questions, you need to join this webinar! All four authors of the book will be LIVE, sharing their six insider secrets to help you get more bookings, and more referrals. You DON'T want to miss this!

22/03/2018

Now, THIS is interesting...

It’s the same bot, DoNotPay, that helped users protest parking tickets and even sue Equifax for small sums of money.

16/03/2018

New interview is out for Successful Meetings Magazine! Yayyy!
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06/03/2018

Here's a good laugh for you. :)

Welcome to our Team Building Meeting! Meet us in the lobby for an excruciating half-hour of mingling with people you have nothing in common with!

25/09/2017

Join us tonight at the Wi******er Mystery House for a great program!

17/07/2017

Get ready for the group Star Wars experience, y'all!
(in 3-4 years, when they finish building it)

Company confirms a Star Wars-themed hotel will be built at Walt Disney World.

28/04/2017

Oh, snap. Here's a GINORMOUS example of poor planning. Ouch!
https://news.vice.com/story/rich-millennials-paid-thousands-for-ja-rules-fyre-fest-and-are-now-stranded-on-an-island-in-disaster-relief-tents

Fyre Fest was supposed to be the most luxurious music festival ever. That’s not what happened.

30/01/2017

Wow!

Edit...fortunately not true. Apologies for the misinformation!
This one wasn't easy to spot...there was even an article in the New York Times, which is why we thought it was legit. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/world/europe/hotel-austria-bitcoin-ransom.html?_r=0&referer=https://duckduckgo.com/

Nothing on Snopes yet, but we were able to find this one disputing it...https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/hacked-off-austrian-hotel-boss-160942100.html

A luxury hotel in Austria found itself in a bizarre hostage situation recently when hackers managed to access its electronic key system and lock all the hotel guests in their rooms until the hotel agreed to pay a ransom to get its systems back. According to The Local , the cyber lock-in...

14/12/2016

We're gonna use this idea the next time a client needs to hold an event at an undesirable time of year. ;)

24/10/2016

I don't know that this will stop the bleeding...

The new hotels will be called “Scion.”

24/06/2016

It looks like all of us can now help to fight human trafficking with this easy peasy app...such a great idea!

(KTVI) Snapping a picture inside your hotel room could help protect children across the globe. The TraffickCam app enables travelers to submit pictures of hotel rooms around the world. The images a…

10/03/2016

Truth.

Leave the event planning to the pros.

10/02/2016

New Napa location for groups...coming in 2018!

The new Four Seasons property in Napa Valley, called Calistoga Resort, will open in 2018.

29/01/2016

Something to consider when taking groups out of the country...
"CDC has issued a travel alert (Level 2-Practice Enhanced Precautions) for people traveling to regions and certain countries where Zika virus transmission is ongoing: Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico."

Officials from the group announced that they would convene a meeting on Monday to decide whether to declare a public health emergency.

04/01/2016

Happy New Year, y'all! :)

Photo thanks to Mister John L. Hall of John Hall Portraits!

15/12/2015

Check out this great article in Incentive Magazine that I was honored to contribute to!
- Maralynn

THE INCENTIVE TRAVEL BUYER'S HANDBOOK
What's the Spend: BUDGET ALLOCATION
By Karen Gines

29/10/2015

Ha! We have a feeling that a few folks we know have been HERE before...

23/10/2015

A sign like this with "Corporate Event" replacing "Wedding" might be a good call at some events. :)

28/09/2015

Contributed to an MPI Magazine article recently...short lead times are really tough in this seller's market!

Educating the Client The first step in navigating the challenges of short lead times involves educating decision makers about the realities of the seller’s market. While planners are all too aware of how tight the hotel situation is, particularly in key business cities and resort destinations, other…

23/09/2015

Who's attending the Administrative Professionals Conference in Dallas??
Join me for a session...only two weeks away!

18/08/2015

Who ever figured that hotel rooms in New York would be a HUGE bargain compared to the Bay Area??

From Smart Meetings Magazine (August 2015):
"High Hotel Rates in S.F. -
According to a new Bloomberg Business report, San Francisco has the most expensive hotel rates in the world. The average price for a night jumped 88 percent from last year to $397—the largest increase among 100 of the world’s top financial centers. The report suggests that a shortage in hotel construction, along with an influx of tech companies, have been driving factors behind rising hotel rates.
The City by the Bay has pulled ahead of Geneva, where rooms average $292 a night. The third most costly city is Milan, at $271. Chicago and Miami tied as the second priciest U.S. cities, with going rates of $240 per night.
Some cities reported lower hotel room rates. In New York City, hotel prices dropped by 13 percent to an average of $202 per night. Paris hotel rates dropped by 37 percent to $146 per night, and Budapest prices fell by more than half to $85. The cheapest
city to rent a hotel is Hanoi, Vietnam, where rooms average $62 per night."

06/08/2015

Something to be aware of when booking beach destinations in Mexico and the Caribbean...

A report on the thick seaweed that is inundating the Caribbean and Mexico and refuses to go away.

10/07/2015

Rampant butt touching...? No, thank you.

Viewed from above, a sitting human being looks like a T-block from Tetris. The shoulders jut to the sides, and the legs protrude forward in a narrow line. It's not the most efficient shape in...

10/07/2015

Ooohhh...this sounds very promising!

We loved everything about the new Virgin Hotel in Chicago. Everything.

08/07/2015

We just ran across an MPI article that our Owner & Senior Director, Maralynn Adams, was interviewed for last year that was published... unbeknownst to us!

For many destinations, the meeting planner familiarization (FAM) trip remains a sales and marketing tool that showcases their attributes beyond what other methods can match. But it is a tool that is being sharpened to fit the realities of a time-squeezed business environment that frowns on frills.

24/06/2015

This is some super cool awesomeness that my friend and colleague, Shawna Mulay Suckow, teamed up to create!
We want allllll of our clients to do it immediately!

A new CSR concept co-founded by one of Prevue's editors and aptly named the Empty Suitcase Campaign has attendees fill their duffle bags with needed items and go—it’s that simple!

16/04/2015

Had a chat with Successful Meetings Magazine about "The Art of Today's Deal" and they wrote a great article. :)

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