Articles tagged “meetings”

How are planners and other meeting professionals preparing for a potential recession? They are tightening contracts, establishing advance payments, exploring new skills, and keeping up with their networks.

Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, is not only an enchanting place to visit, but it is also a hub of innovation and collaboration in the fast-moving field of advanced manufacturing, particularly in applying next-generation technologies to biomechanics.

The rate of recovery for meetings and events has sped up fueled by smaller meetings and events of 200 attendees or less.

In-person meetings and events are back, and attendees are gravitating toward personalized experiences that foster human connection. Driven by a commitment to innovation, The Venetian Resort partners with meeting planners to deliver memorable moments that can’t be created by virtual events.

The use of multilingual interpretation is rising as companies seek to run more inclusive meetings and events that suit the needs of increasingly global workforces.

With the return of in-person events, industry professionals may have overlooked one factor in their desire to nurture diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts — the event space itself

A weeklong event in Buenos Aires acted as the unofficial relaunch of the meetings sector after the pandemic slump. But recovering lost ground — just 20 percent of the business is back — while dealing with new hybrid models could take about two years, tourism officials admit.

Humans are meant to be together, especially when it comes to conducting business. We yearn to see each other’s faces in person. And we want to touch and shake hands.

On Prince Edward Island, Mary Robinson, president of The Canadian Federation of Agriculture, is helping the island cement its role as a thriving hub for Canada’s agribusiness sector and a world leader in addressing climate change.

Strong pricing power combined with buoyant U.S. and European markets are helping IHG Hotels & Resorts edge closer to a full recovery, a first-quarter trading update reveals. But colleagues in its Shanghai office have a different outlook in their region.