Meeting Planners Make Slow Progress Toward Sustainability
Photo Credit: Attendees dining at a Cvent conference in 2019. Flickr / Cvent
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Reducing food waste and environmental impacts are proving to be difficult for meeting planners. The sector's antiquated way of doing business is holding up progress at a moment when widespread change is necessary.
There is a big push for events to become more sustainable and better reflect the values of attendees while reducing the environmental impact that events can have on a destination.
Meeting planners expect sustainability to be a top focus for venues in coming years, but ingrained event practices make progress slow.
The latest Meeting Room of the Future Report from the IACC (formerly known as International Association of Conference Centers) polled 250 meeting planners globally to gauge the direction of an evolving industry.
Nearly half of the respondents believed sustainable practices would be one of the most important elements for event sites by 2024, coming in only after access to interactive technol
