Meetings and Events Industry News

The right speaker can make or break your event. Considering the makeup of your audience and your meeting’s objectives will guide you toward the best decision. 

With tariff-driven inflation and hidden fees on the rise, event planners are forced to rethink budgets and sourcing strategies. 

Soaring tariffs on Chinese imports are impacting the U.S. promotional products industry, with ripple effects on meetings and conferences. One promotional products company said the U.S.-China trade war is driving small businesses like his into the ground.  

​Trump administration policies are reverberating throughout the scientific and medical meetings space. 

The recent wave of event news suggests that the sector is in a period of strategic execution. Companies are tightening their focus, refining core tools, expanding reach, and layering in AI where it makes tangible impact.

As tariffs upend global trade dynamics, event organizers must quickly pivot toward emerging markets and new trade alliances or risk being left behind.

Event sponsorship is one of those things that every event professional wants to master, but few truly enjoy.

Tax expert Steve Hoffman offers some advice for independent planners facing their least-favorite task — filing their taxes.

Featuring Nicola Kastner, CEO of Event Leaders Exchange (ELX), and Kevin Hinton, managing director, group travel, at U.S. Travel Association, this week’s Skift Meetings webinar had one overriding theme — uncertainty.

As U.S.-Canada tariffs take hold and cross-border meeting attendance dips, one veteran planner is helping associations rethink U.S.-Canada event strategies.