Articles tagged “meetings and events”

This year's list of 100 top meeting hotels revealed a slight shift away from major hotel brands and traditional conventional cities, mirroring a larger trend towards independent hotels and emerging destinations in the hospitality industry.

The frequency of and attendance at international business meetings will continue to grow thanks to companies' renewed confidence in an improving economy. But the meeting market is moving from Europe towards Asia meaning that the degree of growth for individual cities depends on their location.

The list, even though one-company specific, shows the meetings and conventions industry is coming out of recession as the broader economy improves. Cities with airports near city centers are doing a lot better.

A great annual list from BizBash which honors the not-so-usual suspects in an industry that drives a huge amount of revenues directly into the hospitality and travel sector.

Businesses are still being cautious about their travel budgets for meetings and conventions. The economic recovery is patchy, at best.

The Canadians have won this battle hands-down with nicer hotels and meetings and conventions facilities. Niagara Falls, New York, will have to swim upstream with resolve to catch up with the other side.

Like all current travel trends, the international meetings market is moving from Europe towards Asia signaling both the need for Asian cities to prepare to accommodate the growing sector and for the rest of the world to more aggressively market themselves as suitable locations.

This is an interesting idea from SkyTeam, but it's doubtful this would be the first option that meeting planners would turn to.

It's fierce competition for the lucrative convention market, and Las Vegas had better be on top of its game because business travelers sometimes long for something different as opposed to repeat visits to Vegas.

Reaching far back into history for a branding message is a bit of a stretch that provides ample opportunity for the impact to get lost in translation. They should go with the simpler: "Yokohama: It's Close to Haneda Airport."