In her 12 years at event-technology firm Cvent, Allyson Keenan has risen from marketing intern to event planner to event-operations manager and event technologist. So, she has a broad and clear ...

In less than 18 months with the Calgary Real Estate Board, the “graciously audacious” Jennifer Hadley has revamped the logistics, agendas, and sponsorship programs for CREB’s big events. A lot has ...

increase in overall meeting and event costs for 2025 comes with a caveat from Maritz: You could pay more depending on the location. “If you’re looking at a major commerce hub that’s also trendy with ...

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 ...

With many organizations in the midst of setting their travel and event budgets for 2025, the recently released Global Business Travel Forecast from business-travel and meetings agency CWT and the ...

As a group, the organizations on this year’s CMI 25 list executed nearly 150,000 corporate meetings and more than 1,400 incentive-travel programs. In total, those events used more than 7 million room ...

As a coalition of professional, industry, and labor associations within the business-event industry, the Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance engages state and federal officials to encourage them to ...

In Kauai, Hawaii, the Coco Palms Resort, once host to celebrity guests such as Elvis Presley, Rita Hayworth, and Frank Sinatra, never reopened after Hurricane Iniki struck the island in 1992. Now, ...

If a meeting venue labels its banquet options with sustainability data, would that impact your meal choices? That question has become more relevant to planners as food-environmental data experts such ...

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 ...

According to the March 2024 Cvent Source Snapshot Report, which analyzes data from tens of thousands of event requests for proposal sent through the company’s system, meeting volume is creeping up ...

New Report: Women’s Career AdvancementOne significant hurdle the study found is the lack of formal networking and mentoring programs. Just 31 percent said their organizations provided formal ...