Meetings and Events Industry News

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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