Here's another golden nugget for ya! When you are contracting with a hotel, you want to make sure that the hotel contract includes the following 2 clauses:

INDEMNIFICATION

This clause outlines who will be held responsible for damages or costs arising from negligence or misconduct of the hotels agents and or the host agents. Agents are officers, directors, employees, members and even volunteers.

Force Majeure
Force Majeure is a French term that means “greater force”. This clause frees or releases BOTH parties from ANY liability or obligation when an Act of God or even war, crime, riot prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their contractual obligation. Say for instance, you contract with a hotel to host your Pastors and Leaders Conference and the hotel experiences a fire. If you have this clause in your contract, you have the right to go to the hotel and request your deposit be returned so that you may opt to use another hotel. If you don’t have this clause in your contract, the hotel could “release” you from your date BUT require you to honor your contract and hold this event on another date when their hotel is fixed. They also can retain your deposit and apply it for your future date.

In a nutshell, make sure that you are absolutely comfortable with all of the parts of the contract. I am available to work with you to negotiate your venue contract. YOU DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO NEGOTIATE EVERYTHING. There's no guarantee that the venue will agree to your terms but you'll never know if you fail to ask.

Remember, Excellence Matters!!!

RMW