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Meetings and Events Industry News

News, interviews, and coverage of the meetings and events industry, from in-person events to hybrid events to online events.

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Business Travel

Hilton Wants to Change Your Mind About Airport Hotels

Although many travelers fear and loathe airport hotels, Hilton is providing data that suggests hotel companies can change people's perceptions by promoting airport properties designed on par with city hotels.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Hilton Wants to Change Your Mind About Airport Hotels

Business Travel

Philadelphia’s New Conventions CEO on Reinventing Old Meetings Ideas

Convention bureaus are shifting their priorities to connect more people from disparate backgrounds, cultures and industries in an effort to drive new business development, competitive advantage, and knowledge sharing.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Philadelphia’s New Conventions CEO on Reinventing Old Meetings Ideas
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Airlines

Düsseldorf Airport’s Innovation Hub Wants a Bit of Startup Magic

Aviation is taking advantage of outsider perspectives and capabilities to push innovation forward. With proper management, these programs could prove fruitful both for the industry and passengers. We’re maintaining healthy skepticism, but the solution to systemic problems is often fresh thinking.

Marisa Garcia, Skift | 8 years ago

Düsseldorf Airport’s Innovation Hub Wants a Bit of Startup Magic

Business Travel

The Rise of Food Sharing Experiences at Meetings and Events

There's a lot of work that goes into matching hundreds of conference attendees with hundreds of local residents who want to cook for them. But as international food-sharing platforms fine-tune their systems, this could be something that scales significantly based simply on growing attendee awareness and demand.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

The Rise of Food Sharing Experiences at Meetings and Events

Business Travel

The Future of Business Technology Conferences — Skift MeetingsIQ

We're seeing a rise of conference programming around digital technology designed to engage mass audiences beyond the business tech crowd. This is redefining how meeting planners should design their own meeting and event content, and how they should identify their attendees.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

The Future of Business Technology Conferences — Skift MeetingsIQ

Business Travel

Vancouver Summit Rethinks the Modern Tech Conference

BC Tech Summit is illustrative of a growing number of conferences worldwide that showcase advances in business technology by using simple language and interactive exhibits to engage next generation citizens and consumers.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Vancouver Summit Rethinks the Modern Tech Conference

Meetings

New Tahiti Tourism Campaign Ditches Scenery for Spiritual Harmony

Tahiti Tourisme's new video and marketing campaign deliver a solid impact, but it needs to ramp up the online experience as well to really sell the message to leisure travelers and corporate incentive travel planners.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

New Tahiti Tourism Campaign Ditches Scenery for Spiritual Harmony

Business Travel

How the Sharing Economy Is Impacting Events — Skift MeetingsIQ

2016 is going to be the hump year when sharing companies move from the cheap seats of the meetings industry to center stage.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

How the Sharing Economy Is Impacting Events — Skift MeetingsIQ

Hotels

How Airbnb is Quietly Positioning Itself to Disrupt the Meetings Industry

More meeting planners are considering Airbnb as a viable accommodation option, based on new partnerships and programs that dramatically increase the value proposition for themselves, their clients, and their attendees.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

How Airbnb is Quietly Positioning Itself to Disrupt the Meetings Industry

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Interview: San Francisco Tourism CEO on Getting in Bed With Airbnb

San Francisco is at the forefront of showing how tourism bureaus, which rely on hotel bed taxes for funding, can collaborate with room-sharing companies that are in direct competition with hotels.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Interview: San Francisco Tourism CEO on Getting in Bed With Airbnb