Virtual events might avoid costs around hotel rooms, F&B, and travel, but using technology platforms, recording speakers, and editing presentations still require a significant investment. Here’s a ...

Stats, news, and more in our profiles of the top independent meeting-planning companies doing business with the corporate market in North America On Tap: Whiplash, By the Numbers — New data ...

Breaks tend to be a time when attendees scour their email, return calls, and hit the restroom before running back into the next session. They are on information overload, feeling fatigued, and ...

Welcome to MeetingsNet’s 2024 CMI 25 list, a select directory of the biggest independent meeting-planning companies working with the U.S. corporate market. To compile the list, MeetingsNet compares ...

Let’s start with this statistic: On average in 2023, 45 percent of conference attendees delayed registering until four weeks or less before an event. That’s among the eye-popping findings in a new ...

With its topping-out ceremony set for mid-July, the newest hospitality addition to the Shreveport-Bossier City area is on track to debut in Q1 2025. Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana will be a 545-room ...

With so many educational sessions and poster presentations at the typical medical conference, it is surely a challenge to get healthcare professionals to walk the trade-show floor for any length of ...

Here’s some good news: Fully 45 percent of responding healthcare professionals said they registered for a medical congress in 2020 specifically because it was offered online and they would not have ...

Sustainability consultant Julia Spangler sees opportunities and challenges that must be addressed when large meetings and events return. Single use is not safer. “One of the areas where we have made ...

The Regent brand hasn’t had a property in the U.S. since the Regent Beverly Wilshire closed more than 30 years ago. That’s changed with the mid-October opening of the Regent Santa Monica Beach. The ...

While the Covid-19 pandemic has affected every industry to some degree, those who are educators in elementary and secondary schools seem to have had the most difficult transition to the new ...

The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Fla., presently part of the Curio Collection by Hilton, will soon become the Signia by Hilton Diplomat Resort, reinforcing the property’s focus on serving ...