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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Houston’s south side, a life-sciences research complex for Texas Medical Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M Health, and UT Health Houston is set to open in Q4 2023 under the name TMC ...

Among the many things that are different about coordinating in-person meetings now compared to before the Covid pandemic is the frequent sticker shock among planners when it comes to audiovisual, ...

Just as the 2024 hurricane season began on June 1, a few meetings-focused hotels in South Florida, both on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, publicized promotions to the group market featuring especially ...

Demand is hot for speakers who address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. In fact, event professionals are just as eager to find DEI-focused speakers as those who address time-honored topics ...

As you look toward restarting your meetings and events, will virtual negotiations be harder or easier than in person? According to Leigh Thompson, professor at the Kellogg School of Management at ...

If your 2025 meeting budgets aren’t at least 4.3 percent over what you spent this year, there’s a good chance you’ll find yourself in the hole. That’s upshot of the meetings and events cost forecast ...