Andrea Doyle

The hospitality industry has struggled with a labor shortage since the Covid pandemic. Now, immigration enforcement and an anti-immigrant sentiment are adding a new layer of complexity.

Janet Traphagen has spent her career helping define what leadership looks like in the business events space, not just through her rise at Creative Group, but through the values she champions: emotional intelligence, authenticity, and culture as a performance driver.

The White House has proposed the largest single-year budget cut to NASA in U.S. history. As a result, space science and exploration are taking a hit — and so are the cornerstone conferences that support these efforts.

As scientific groups cancel or relocate their conferences, the U.S. is losing ground as a host for academic exchange, along with the economic impact that comes with it.

Event professionals are moving beyond traditional scheduling and focusing on energy management to design experiences that support how people process and retain information.

InCyber Forum’s postponement shows how political volatility is driving global conferences to rethink U.S. expansion plans.

Canadians balked at attending the NASSS’s conference in Seattle. The fix: add one in Vancouver as well as a virtual option. 

With the aim of transforming the standard 48-hour meetings business turnaround into real-time responses, Accor is partnering with MeetingPackage to automate group bookings and meeting space reservations.

Event organizers can’t control global crises, but they can control their contracts, which are now a critical first line of defense.

The long-awaited Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center has officially opened. It's a high-stakes investment in California’s competitive meetings market amid economic uncertainty.