Meetings and Events Industry News

By focusing on the theme of user experience, the one-day Dive:Event conference could spur a movement among companies toward more customer-centric innovation.

The impact of modern events can reach far beyond convention centers' walls. How to measure that impact is a new challenge, but it also can provide a new metric of success.

By making its destination rankings more global in scope, Cvent hopes to expand its brand identity, exposure, and reach worldwide.

In a world with so many travel apps of suspect value and necessity, these three platforms deliver real improvements for users in each of the three travel categories.

The future of meetings and events will become the present when event planners get their teams actually focused on the future and on the same page, which these startups aim to do.

While a range of destinations from Manchester to Melbourne have developed their own road maps toward the future of business events, there is no overarching vision steering the larger meetings and events industry forward.

The meetings industry doesn't really have a cohesive vision moving forward. All of the individual pieces are there, so we designed a framework to bring everything together in a succinct unifying theory.

Destinations have traditionally undervalued the ability of meetings-specific website content to drive convention attendance, but Las Vegas is attempting to do just that with an integrated, high-tech content delivery platform.

The trade association sector needs something like the Xperience Design Project to pivot how organizations develop new business and engage their members better at industry events.

The big trade associations are realizing they need to dramatically shake things up at their live events if they want to remain relevant to Millennials, or anyone for that matter.