Meetings and Events Industry News

After years of defending itself as a serious business destination for meetings and conventions during the recession, Las Vegas has a little fun with its new ad campaign now that group numbers are trending north again.

DMAI's report shows how and why destination sales and marketing organizations need to evolve beyond sales and marketing.

As Europe's largest urban redevelopment project, HafenCity is attracting top architects and planners, but will it attract tourists?

While the United Arab Emirates diversifies its economy by leveraging its location as a global air axis, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are aggressively preparing for visitor numbers that will dwarf those of today.

By focusing as much on the conference user experience and content delivery platforms as the content itself, C2MTL is rewriting the rules of conference management and having a lot of fun in the process.

Manchester is poised to lead a new era of global cities positioning themselves as thought leaders integrating business, tech, academia and culture as a unified travel package for business, leisure and group market segments.

The push for more high-tech, design-conscious convention centers is becoming a competitive advantage for cities going after high-tech, design-conscious delegations.

Larger health-wellness-adventure trends are driving the move towards more outdoors events and meetings in the hospitality industry.

There's no longer a one-size-fits-all method to meetings. Smart hotels are looking to new ideas -- even if they're very old ideas like yoga -- to offer better options for planners and guests.

Are the meeting planners and hospitality executives jumping on these trends fast enough? Understand the trends, get the report.