INN CROWD: Linda Naiss, director of marketing for the Bristol Harbor Inn, says that small venues are dependent on last-minute bookings. /
The trend for business meetings in 2009 can be summed up as fewer, shorter, smaller, less frilly, more self-conscious and budgeted so tightly that every nickel squeaks. To cope with these times of corporate austerity, small, low-profile meeting venues in the region are becoming more thrifty, flexible and creative at marketing. So far, proprietors of…