Greg Oates

This Tourism Australia project is a mashup of next-gen destination video marketing using GoPros, projection mapping, user-generated content, and social media influencers — and it didn't cost a lot to produce.

Although Manhattan continues to market successfully to meeting planners by promoting the city's iconic selling points, the most exciting spirit of innovation to create memorable events is in Brooklyn.

In a forty or even four hundred room hotel, in-room tablets are nice, but almost always feel like overkill. When you're talking thousands of rooms they may be the best way to communicate with the modern hotel guest.

Driven in part by new research from Destination Marketing Association International this year, tourism bureau CEOs are shifting their emphasis toward better digital communications, data and research collection, and local neighborhood promotion.

Dramatic socio-economic and political events over the last 15 years have formed the priorities for Millennials more than the advent of digital technology.

The Smart Hotel of the future adapts to any building, and it's plugged into a city's open data platform to provide a new and untapped hospitality user experience that prioritizes efficiency, connectivity and mobility.

As 2015 comes to a close, here are some of the most disruptive trends that have impacted destination meetings and event technology development over the year.

Glasgow is drawing record numbers of convention attendees by continually expanding and engaging its local knowledge base to strategically add value to business events.