Meetings and Events Industry News

The new Meetings Mean Business ad campaign is timed to coincide with the national political conventions to impress upon governments that they should support hospitality and tourism's efforts to attract meetings and conventions.

The annual A.T. Kearney Global Cities Index shows destinations their competitive positioning on a worldwide basis to inform their strategy to attract more corporate investment and business events.

Planners must be knowledgeable and prepared to meet the special dietary needs of attendees. Our attendees often have dietary needs and restrictions, and food allergies are becoming increasingly common. Guests…

Many of the emerging lifestyle trends in meetings and events that we've been discussing are starting to enter mainstream conversation. Meetings are becoming cool, seriously.

There are a lot of things that Airbnb hosts can do to make solo female business travelers feel more safe and comfortable, but there are also many female travelers who will never book an Airbnb alone.

By focusing on the theme of user experience, the one-day Dive:Event conference could spur a movement among companies toward more customer-centric innovation.

The impact of modern events can reach far beyond convention centers' walls. How to measure that impact is a new challenge, but it also can provide a new metric of success.

By making its destination rankings more global in scope, Cvent hopes to expand its brand identity, exposure, and reach worldwide.

In a world with so many travel apps of suspect value and necessity, these three platforms deliver real improvements for users in each of the three travel categories.

The future of meetings and events will become the present when event planners get their teams actually focused on the future and on the same page, which these startups aim to do.