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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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Meetings

Intellectual Capital Is the New Draw for Smart Meetings Destinations

This survey is the first real evidence that North America is catching up with the trend in Europe to align destination marketing with knowledge leaders in the destination.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

Salt Lake City Wants to Show Meeting Planners a Good Time With Its New Website

The Visit Salt Lake tourism bureau is smart to aggressively show the city's fun factor for meetings and conventions to combat the Mormon organization's bizarre legacy.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

Millennial Travel Habits Force Tourism Bureaus to Shift Strategy

Millennials are making their biggest impact at tourism bureaus by pushing for more innovation in digital marketing campaigns and experiential sales strategy.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

5 Millennials Explain What’s Wrong With Traditional Hotel Meetings

The gap between what Millennial-age conference attendees want and what hotels are offering is huge, and it's way beyond time for the hospitality industry to wake up to its very real challenges and opportunities.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

The Persian Gulf Will Be the World’s Next Big Convention Destination

While there's significant interest among U.S. associations to organize conventions in the Arabian Middle East, only one third have done so due to a young regional industry in the Gulf still learning how to engage Western convention planners.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Business Travel

Conference Attendees Get Relief as FCC Fines Wi-Fi Provider for Blocking Personal Hotspots

This is another step on the road toward Wi-Fi access becoming a free and open utility, and a right. Until the laws catch up with the times it appears we can expect more battles like this for the foreseeable future.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

Visit Anaheim Uses Consumer Marketing Strategies To Sway Business Stakeholders

It is surprising that more tourism bureaus don't leverage the power of video to illustrate their economic impact.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

Tourism Vancouver’s Ongoing Effort to Use Video to Convince Meeting Planners

The level of thought leadership and production values in these videos creates an impressive package that positions Vancouver as a convention city of brains and beauty.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Announcements

Why the Meetings Industry Doesn’t Understand Millennial or Modern Needs

There's a huge gap today in the meetings industry between ideation and implementation when it comes to next generation meeting design and event technology.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Meetings

This Week in Travel Startup Funding: DoubleDutch, Oasis and More

Year after year the same run-of-the-mill conferences seem to get even more massive and the player that can help event organizers understand the analytics behind these large gatherings is destined for the hands of every conference attendee of the future.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 9 years ago