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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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Hotels

Top Three U.S. Cities for Meetings are Orlando, Chicago and Las Vegas

Technology is augmenting face-to-face meetings rather than replacing it.

Joyce Manalo, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

How One Convention Industry Association is Developing the Future of Conference Design

The move toward open-learning meeting space, where attendees can roam among casual “campfire” sessions, is helping Millennials personalize their educational journey in a more spontaneous and organic process.

MMBC | 9 years ago

Meetings

Free Skift Report: What Millennials Want in Meetings

Millennial meeting attendees value face-to-face networking at meetings and events just as much as previous generations. Download this report for FREE to learn more.

Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

The Video Tech That Connects Travelers Virtually With Destinations in Real Time

Georama is unique because meeting attendees can now interact with any other group moving around in a non-static environment, via both HD video feed and social media chat in real time.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

Why Convention Bureaus Are Marketing Their Local Industry and Intellectual Capital

In an increasingly competitive market with a lot of quality product and emerging destinations, European convention bureaus are tapping their local knowledge economies to drive new business.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

The Meetings Industry Turns to Content Marketing to Get Ahead

North American DMOs are starting to shift content marketing efforts to the meeting side to align with the shift to more content-oriented, education-based group sales strategies.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

Dubai Constructs a Conference and Events Hub for the Future

Dubai might not offer meetings and convention attendees the culture of Tokyo or the cuisine of New York, but its location, growing room and space inventory, and desire to bring in more events will drive its growth beyond the 2020 Expo.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago

Announcements

Megatrends 2015: The Events Industry Is Going Through a Creative Renaissance

The event of the future is a co-created hybrid mechanism of live and virtual engagement, fluidly connecting more people through more channels over longer periods of time to leverage the collective knowledge of the community.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

Vancouver Tries to Change the Tourism Bureau Model by Thinking Green and Local

By creating new networks between the bureau and local businesses—tourism and otherwise—the Vancouver "DMMO" is rewriting the rules of internal destination engagement.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

17 European Countries Band Together to Create Meetings-Themed Marketing Organization

By pooling resources, the national DMOs can build on each others' strengths and expand Europe's exposure for corporate travelers and meeting attendees beyond the traditional first-tier countries.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago