Articles tagged “meetings and events”

Some 4,000 new hotel rooms are coming to HomeAway headquarters' city, Austin, Texas. With more rooms, Austin would become a more attractive host for meetings and conventions.

Anyone whose been to Austin for its massive festivals knows the room crunch, and even services such as Airbnb and Homeaway can't fit all the people.

This tax increase won't have much effect on casual vacationers, but does come into play for larger conventions when meeting planners are comparison shopping across cities, hence this worry.

Ridiculous that the city is held hostage to a billionaire's whims about an NFL team. While LAX is finally being upgraded with a $4 billion investment, time a meetings and convention center comes up to match that.

Convention attendees spend more than domestic business travelers and foreign leisure tourists, making them and the expensive meetings they attend Abu Dhabi’s best bet for increasing tourism GDP.

Asia on the up, Europe on the rise, North America flatlines: that's a litany across many industries, not just meetings and business travel. And for meetings, that means effects on hotel industry as a result.

High room rates and airfares are expected to increase worldwide, but only Asia’s growing business economy is expected to take the price hikes in stride and continue growing meeting opportunities.

A startup doesn't have to be the next Expedia, TripAdvisor or Kayak to become a good business, but finding one sure would be like manna from heaven.

QuickMobile is addressing a huge market opportunity with its mobile solutions for meetings and conventions.

The bot could be used within corporations for employee management, but would fall short in recreating the intangible benefits that come from meeting face-to-face with clients and customers.