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THERE WAS A TIME when Elizabeth Halleron had no problem booking a meeting involving up to 400 executives just six months in advance.
"I could coordinate all the pieces, and I would even have some bargaining power when it came to deciding the location," says Ms. Halleron, coordinator of support services in the New York office of Ernst &Young.
Today, with corporate travel and the demand for meeting space rising in step with-if not ahead of-the economy, planners are finding that the days of last-minute deals are over. Planners report that they must now book large events at least a year in advance if they expect to have any negotiating power.
That has certainly been the experience of jenny Harris, vice president of event management at CRG Events in...