Will You Flip the Event Script for a More Sustainable World?
If you’re not talking about climate or a sustainable environment, more than mere buzzwords, you’re already late in the meetings industry.
If you’re not talking about climate or a sustainable environment, more than mere buzzwords, you’re already late in the meetings industry.

If you’re not talking about sustainability, climate or the environment, more than mere buzzwords, you’re already late in the meetings industry.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
Planning and successfully executing events requires a delicate balancing act of long checklists, hard and fast deadlines, keeping stakeholders updated, making sure the right people are in the right place at the right time and more. Luckily, there are plenty of tools and platforms available to planners to ensure that the planning and event management processes run efficiently, and events go off without a hitch. If you’re looking for options for collaboration, planning and event management, here are six tools to consider.
As a virtual and hybrid event tech company, I work with meeting planners all day long. Here’s what I’m advising for contingency planning.