A turbulent year for U.S.-Canada relations has seen Canadian cities come out ahead as conferences move north. | Continue reading
Vancouver’s loss is undeniably San Diego’s gain. After 12 years hosting TED, Vancouver will hand the baton to a city with a growing life sciences community and cross-border innovation that gives it room to grow. | Continue reading
As human trafficking advocacy leader Sandy Biback steps away from her role at MPAHT, the number of victims internationally is more than the entire population of her home country of Canada. | Continue reading
A flurry of late-year dealmaking shows growing confidence in the events sector, even as geopolitical and economic uncertainty lingers. Investors see a fragmented industry ripe for consolidation. | Continue reading
Today’s multi-ethnic, multi-generational workforce requires you to rethink the traditional Christmas party to make sure that everyone feels welcome. | Continue reading
Eventbrite’s sale to Bending Spoons removes a long-struggling ticketing platform from Wall Street pressure. Could the Italian tech company, known for overhauling tech companies, revive this event tech pioneer? | Continue reading
Encore’s second acquisition in less than two weeks expands its international reach, but this time focuses on event planning services. It sees FIRST’s embedded corporate campus model as complementary to its own strong hotel partnerships. | Continue reading
The merger underscores how mid-size agencies are joining forces to build global footprints. | Continue reading
Easyfairs, one of Europe’s largest privately-owned event companies, has made its first North American acquisition: the fast-growing Energy Projects Conference & Expo (EPC). With AI driving the need for energy-intensive data centers, this strategic move puts Easyfairs directly int … | Continue reading
Global exhibition organizers have announced more new shows along with office openings in Saudi Arabia, but Riyadh’s limited convention capacity remains a barrier to growth. | Continue reading
Attendees may travel thousands of miles and spend hundreds of dollars just to show up at your event. Finding a way to show appreciation for their attendance is not only required, it is expected. Yet, often we forget this very crucial element of planning successful events. | Continue reading
Planners grapple with the reasons why many attendees don’t honor their RSVPs — and try to keep it from happening again. | Continue reading
All too often, choosing a destination for incentive travel forces meeting planners to prioritize either a busy city or rural country, business or wellness, modern developments or rich cultural experiences. Here’s how planners get to have it all on the island of Ireland. | Continue reading
A long-running fraud scheme is cycling through new identities to stay ahead of detection, and independent planners remain the primary targets. | Continue reading
A long-running fraud scheme is cycling through new identities to stay ahead of detection, and independent planners remain the primary targets. | Continue reading
Building attendees’ commitment to your event and educating them on the implications of canceling feeds their “meeting-decline guilt” and keeps them from canceling. | Continue reading
Many meeting professionals struggle to plan more sustainable events. Caesars Entertainment’s company-wide waste reduction initiatives, along with its comprehensive event tracking tools, help planners address these challenges and build effective sustainability strategies for green … | Continue reading
Allegra Roccato's leadership journey has been shaped by personal resilience and a deep commitment to inclusion. She is living proof of the value of empathy, trust, and creative problem-solving. | Continue reading
Encore is using its new line of credit to expand internationally. With the acquisition of production company Eclipse, it expands its London footprint and gains a home advantage at some of the city’s top venues. | Continue reading
Contracts are a planner’s first line of defense against extra costs on everything from rates to F&B — and those annoying hidden fees. | Continue reading
Accessibility is often treated as a compliance task. A recent conference demonstrates what it looks like when inclusion becomes the operating system, not an afterthought. | Continue reading
here’s been a redrawing of the incentive travel map as companies wrestle with higher costs and shifting sentiments about international travel. | Continue reading
This power user of AI feels that the next wave of innovation will come from making meetings more human. | Continue reading
Trade shows have long relied on floor space as their financial backbone, but that foundation is changing faster than most executives admit. A new framework provides a consistent way to quantify that shift. | Continue reading
Growing scrutiny and increased expectations are forcing event organizers to go beyond token gestures and embed sustainability in every aspect of event design. TED has responded with a measurable, verifiable, and deeply integrated climate action plan. | Continue reading
With rising costs and tighter budgets, Choice Hotels International offers smart solutions for planners to maximize their spend and enhance the guest experience. The company’s expansive portfolio includes over 7,500 properties across 22 brands, offering the breadth, flexibility, a … | Continue reading
Adding thoughtful touches that stimulate the senses can transform an event experience. Here are 10 ideas. | Continue reading
The dopamine culture, built on short-burst stimulation and positive reinforcement, has infiltrated B2B events, especially trade shows. But has it gone too far? | Continue reading
Despite significant infrastructure investment, Panama remains under the radar for meetings and conventions. A new incentive program combined with a U.S. tax advantage may give the country the competitive edge it has been seeking. | Continue reading
Hospitality businesses and meeting industry charities have jumped in to help unemployed government workers and families whose SNAP benefits are on hold — including some in their own industries. | Continue reading
A year after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, the region has secured a new PGA TOUR tournament event on a four-year agreement. | Continue reading
Attendees want to do more than see an organization write a check. From repairing books for school children to harvesting pears in someone’s backyard, Portland sets the gold standard for what it means to incorporate a more meaningful CSR component into a meeting. | Continue reading
Treating every interaction as an opportunity to make people feel seen and valued, a tenet of the bestselling book by Will Guidara, applies as much to meetings and incentives as it does to restaurants and hotels. | Continue reading
The IRF’s annual survey of top-performing companies was full of surprises, like the discovery that the perceived value of an incentive reward is more important than the cost. | Continue reading
AI continues to reshape event technology, with innovation now focused less on novelty and more on meaningful automation. The latest wave of launches points to a maturing ecosystem where smarter tools are becoming standard, not optional. | Continue reading
Questex’s latest deal sees it considerably expand its reach into life sciences, both in terms of content-led events and a database of qualified attendees. | Continue reading
Experiential marketing is often associated with jaw-dropping installations, celebrity appearances, and multimillion-dollar budgets. But what if you’re a mid-sized brand, a destination marketing team, or an independent event producer with a fraction of that funding? | Continue reading
The losses to the meetings business and broader travel and industry keep mounting — and have industry leaders speaking up. | Continue reading
One of the world's largest event businesses invited preferred hotel partners to meet with its top buyers. But rather than make the experience transactional, it banned sales pitches altogether. | Continue reading
A relentless scammer continues to prey on planners, this time under a new alias. Tens of thousands of dollars have already been stolen as the scheme evolves. | Continue reading
Hannah DeMaio, vice president of Skift’s Women Leading Travel, says that women in our industry have made incredible strides — but some critical challenges still exist. | Continue reading
The ongoing U.S. government shutdown is disrupting conferences and trade shows nationwide. Attendance is dropping, travel is delayed, and events, especially those involving government participation, are being canceled or scaled back. | Continue reading
At a time when DEI is increasingly politicized, HR association SHRM’s live debate between ideological opposites demonstrates how conferences are the ideal platform for essential, and sometimes uncomfortable, dialogue that digital platforms cannot replicate. | Continue reading
Ruud Janssen wants the tool he co-created to be so impactful it becomes anonymous, and synonyms with encoding great event design. He believes true innovation is about simplifying complexity and getting people to work together and urges all event designers to leave their ego at th … | Continue reading
This boutique event venue in Detroit is a unique arrangement for Marriott which, until now, has focused on combined convention space-hotel room bookings. | Continue reading
AI is everywhere in events, but the smart move is human-led. Use AI to automate the admin, not the judgment — and stay well clear of the creepy line. | Continue reading
The new ballroom being constructed at the White House has ignited widespread controversy over historical preservation, private funding, and the project's escalating costs amid a government shutdown. | Continue reading
As head of global rewards & recognition at Rubrik and a long-time leader at the Incentive Research Foundation, Morgan Crain has learned that one of her strongest assets is her authenticity. | Continue reading