Timing Is Everything When It Comes to Event Planning — Meetings Innovation Report
Photo Credit: An attendee is shown at the registration desk at EuroPython 2017, a programming conference held in Italy this summer. This week's newsletter looks at how planners are dealing with last-minute registrations to their events. Flickr / Alessia Peviani
Skift Take
Will there ever be a day when last-minute event or meeting RSVPs are a thing of the past? Probably not.
The Future of Meetings & Events
"Better late than never?" Never utter such blasphemy to a meeting or events planner. At a time when so many things can be ordered or delivered on demand, or at the very last minute, more and more planners are finding that this type of behavior is finding its way into how event attendees are thinking about meetings and events. Instead of signing up months in advance, some attendees are waiting until the very last milliseconds to register for an event. And while it's always great to have a healthy attendance record, the headaches caused by last-minute registrations can be pretty terrible for event organizers.
That's what writer Jaimie Seaton looked into for us this week, as well as the available solutions planners have to handle — a
