Meetings and Events Moving Full Steam Ahead Toward Full Recovery
The meetings and events industry continues to signal that it’s moving full steam ahead toward full recovery.
The Newest Trends for Delivering Impactful Virtual Events
While in-person events are making a comeback, live attendance is up for both virtual events and webinars, with an increase in attendee engagement.
Hotel Industry Working with Job Corps to Staff Up
In an effort to ignite the hospitality workforce, attract more hotel employees and dampen the impact of the workforce shortage across services, the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation is partnering with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps.
Will You Flip the Event Script for a More Sustainable World?
If you’re not talking about sustainability, climate or the environment, more than mere buzzwords, you’re already late in the meetings industry.
Business Spending Is Coming Back, but More Slowly than Predicted
Unfortunately, the travel industry isn’t escaping the same issues that are plaguing many industries across the globe right now— inflation, energy prices, supply chain challenges, labor shortages and more.
A Greener Future for the U.S. Travel Industry
To help coordinate disparate efforts, this summer, the U.S. Travel Association launched a new Sustainable Travel Coalition to help align the travel, transportation and technology sectors in developing and advancing strategies to enable a more sustainable future for the broader U.S. travel industry.
Forgive Your Forgetful Brain and Focus to Improve Memory
Daniel Schacter, author of “The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers,” believes our memory system, for all its foibles, is highly adaptive.
How to Avoid Drowning in a Sea of Data
Digital and hybrid events can collect a vast sea of data. If not careful, planners can quickly find themselves awash in information without a measurable way to use it.
Three Mistakes Novice Event Planners Often Overlook
If you are a planner who is organizing your first major event, avoid the following often-overlooked mistakes so you can take your guests’ experience to the next level.
Contingency Planning for In-Person Events: What to Do Now
As someone who runs a virtual and hybrid event tech company, I work with meeting planners all day long. Here’s what I’m advising them.