Articles tagged “meetings”

Millennial meeting attendees value face-to-face networking at meetings and events just as much as previous generations. Recognizing this, forward thinking industry stakeholders are implementing next generation meeting design and event…

Millennial meeting attendees value face-to-face networking at meetings and events just as much as previous generations. Download this report for FREE to learn more.

In an increasingly competitive market with a lot of quality product and emerging destinations, European convention bureaus are tapping their local knowledge economies to drive new business.

North American DMOs are starting to shift content marketing efforts to the meeting side to align with the shift to more content-oriented, education-based group sales strategies.

By creating new networks between the bureau and local businesses—tourism and otherwise—the Vancouver "DMMO" is rewriting the rules of internal destination engagement.

Some industries are much slower to change than others, and the meetings and events industry is one of them despite strides made by some early adopters.

The convention of the future is a co-created hybrid mechanism of live and virtual engagement, fluidly connecting more people through more channels over longer periods of time to leverage the collective knowledge of the community.

Hotels, tourism bureaus, meeting planners and delegates are having challenges keeping up with advances in event technology due to so many new platforms and providers arriving on the scene.

There's a market opportunity in meetings and events -- a $500 billion one, according to DoubleDutch. Conferences need apps and data, and that's where DoubleDutch enters the arena.

Business travel is back on the rise meaning increased visitation and occupied hotel rooms in cities across the country. Meetings growth in these midwestern cities mirrors general tourism and economic growth in the region.