Articles tagged “meetings and events”

Our latest report dives into how hoteliers are embracing digital transformation to create direct relationships with meeting planners, optimize the group sales and marketing process, and lower the overall cost of group acquisition. Download the report to learn more!

How digital transformation is revolutionizing the meetings industry, and helping hotels to foster a more direct customer relationship How hoteliers and planners are striving to optimize different parts of the…

Roll up, roll up, roll up! No, that's not a lyric from a song by either The Struts or Fitz and the Tantrums. That's instead the call of Blackstone, which has bought events tech provider PSAV with a likely plan of creating more roll-up mergers with similar vendors.

Can Marriott hold onto hotel owners and SPG elites? That was the underlying question on many analysts' minds during Marriott's second quarter earnings call. After all, the bigger you are, the harder you have to fall, right? But the world's largest hotel company, not surprisingly, doesn't see things that way.

During our recent webinar, we discussed disruptions within the meetings and events industry that are forcing hoteliers to rethink how they attract planners. Register to get the recording!

PCMA CEO Sherrif Karamat is guiding the meetings and events industry toward a future where conventions are better leveraged as platforms for long-term economic development and inclusive social progress.

An arms race is on in the event technology sector as established players look to take on Cvent while embracing emerging technologies. This is good news for meeting planners and other event professionals, bringing an array of choices to a sector that is consolidated at the top.

When someone says “event design,” a lot of meeting planners still think about table centerpieces and drapery. But event design is actually about how we structure events at every step of the creative process to achieve specific objectives. Download the report to learn more.

As we have seen in recent years, new multi-use developments can have transformative effects on under-utilized sections of major cities. Zurich is banking on The Circle to create a new reason for tourists to visit the city.

A look at what design thinking is and how and why IDEO developed the concept Case studies from IBM, CES, Freeman, Meeting Professionals International, C2, and IMEX Interviews with executives…