Meetings and Events Industry News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.