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Hotels
Technology is augmenting face-to-face meetings rather than replacing it.
Joyce Manalo, Skift | 9 years ago
Meetings
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.
Skift | 9 years ago
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.
Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago
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.
Business Travel
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.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago
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.
Announcements
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.
Greg Oates, Skift | 10 years ago
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.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago
Tourism
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.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago
