Meetings and Events Industry News

The ease and availability of booking creative meeting venues online is shifting how and where companies host their internal meetings.

Is research the new content marketing for convention bureaus? We hope so because it's a good way for cities to differentiate themselves, and it provides new inspiration for event programming and education.

When convention and visitor bureaus produce extensive research papers and trend reports, they're showing their commitment to embrace Millennial consumers.

Albuquerque has a great opportunity to take advantage of New Mexico's high-tech knowledge base and the glam appeal of Virgin Galactic, but it needs to separate its messaging between the leisure and group markets.

Here's a handful of big name events and event marketers creating a more inspired user experience with next generation meeting design and technology.

Destination Cleveland raised the bar on integrated web and social media content to promote the city to visiting delegates and convention planners around the globe.

Large events like the national political conventions and South by Southwest provide baseline case studies about how to drive passionate engagement between brands and attendees.

For almost any kind of conference to evolve significantly in the future, it needs to leverage the collective knowledge of the community using modern technology to create a more inclusive programming schedule.

The collaboration between Visit Denver and one of Chicago's economic development agencies shows how tourism bureaus can create dynamic experiences to engage conference planners in their source markets.

It’s often been asked “can video conferencing replace the need for in-person meetings?" In short, the answer is “no.” Simply nothing can replace certain in-person meetings, but the meetings space has clearly evolved past being reliant solely on face-to-face meetings—and corporate travel managers and IT departments can (and in many cases must) work together to make “meetings,” as a whole, productive.