Meeting planners are experts at orchestrating how content is presented. They know how to provide the production values needed to create a great experience around the content. But not all planners are specialists themselves in the topics their mee...

When is the last time you looked at your LinkedIn profile? And the privacy settings on your Facebook account? What about your password for your favorite online retailer—is it the same one you set up when it launched its website in 2001? With 2...

In what could be a shot across the bow of destination management companies and online experience companies like IfOnly, homesharing giant Airbnb has launched Trips, which extends the sharing economy model from housing to local excursions and adve...

Meeting and travel professionals weigh in on keeping out the welcome mat for foreign travelers.

What’s wrong with the traditional Quarterly Business Review between meeting suppliers and clients? Maybe nothing—if the best use of your time is reviewing a mind-numbing PowerPoint. I’m convinced it’s time to rethink how we...

Colorado is joined by Nevada, California, Massachusetts, and Maine

Treat your sponsors like customers. These valuable relationships can take months or even years to form. Don’t blow it with poor execution.

FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is that feeling that everyone is having more fun than you are. You know it—it’s how you feel when you scroll through your social media feeds and see all those shiny, happy people doing shiny, happy...

These days we’re all overwhelmed with distractions, deadlines, expectations, technology, media, and messages. We want to do it all, be it all, see it all—all the time. Meeting planners in particular tend to have that 24/7, always on the go, prepa...

Airport hotels are always convenient, but they’re not always meeting-ready. An extensive renovation at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott has meetings in mind with event space now expanded to 27,000 square feet and guest r...