Contract Negotiation Strategies for 2025

Presenter: Tyra Warner

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How can you cover the possible and emerging risks that could derail your future event? We will go clause-by-clause, to leave you with a list of items you might want to bring up at the negotiating table.

You will learn:

  • What fees to look out for and what you might be able to get waived
  • How to defines roles and responsibilities for data protection
  • How to leverage your economic power in the negotiation process

Tyra Warner is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts at College of Coastal Georgia. She is a practicing attorney, has her CMP designation and has worked as an event planner, a catering manager, a convention and visitor’s bureau sales manager and has a hospitality Ph.D.

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