Articles tagged “meetings and events”

The future of conferences and live events places a priority on bringing together thought leaders and influencers from more diverse segments, because creative audiences today want a mashup of tech, arts, and educational experiences.

A lot of hotel groups are providing healthy food options for their meeting groups, but attendees are still dozing off in the afternoon. So Hilton is pairing its meals with fitness and team-building experiences to try and inject greater energy and focus into meeting sessions. More research needs to be done on this.

The new Hainan Airlines service will help boost Las Vegas' gambling operations and drive higher convention attendance from Asia.

Destination Cleveland raised the bar on integrated web and social media content to promote the city to visiting delegates and convention planners around the globe.

Corporate events planners have been slow to use automated event venue booking sites, but Kapow hopes to change that by embedding 3D video and fun group experiences into the mix.

Airbnb can't compete directly with hotels for meetings business in terms of product, but it will be able to grab market share in the future by offering a degree of personalization that hotels can't match.

The city and convention of the future are international, interdisciplinary knowledge sharing machines marrying live and virtual engagement.

Offline Summit is interesting in the events industry vertical because it has a very specific mission focused on examining business outcomes versus experiential-meeting design bells and whistles.

The CitizenLab platform fills the need in conventions today for an affordable, scalable community engagement tool connecting conference delegates and exhibitors with local citizens and policy makers.

The annual A.T. Kearney Global Cities Index shows destinations their competitive positioning on a worldwide basis to inform their strategy to attract more corporate investment and business events.