Making Meetings and Events Healthier Goes Beyond Tight Budgets
Photo Credit: People at a yoga event at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Flickr / Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
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Reading between the lines, it seems many events are making modest tweaks to ensure attendees aren't sitting in their chairs feeling miserable all day. You don't need yoga and hikes to make an event slightly healthier.
Health and wellness have become more important for events in recent years, as business travelers and organizations alike embrace bringing healthy lifestyle elements into the mainstream.
Meeting planners, however, don't consider the events they coordinate to be entirely healthy, according to new research from the Incentive Research Foundation. The IRF 2019 Wellness in Meetings and Incentive Travel Study polled 329 event professionals on the role of wellness in their events and the elements of meetings that involve wellness.
A majority of planners said their events are somewhat health
