Millennials guru Chelsea Krost gives advice to event pros

Baby Boomers and Millennials in the working world share a need to travel for business, but how they go about it can vary, according to a study of 521 business travelers called, “Booking Behaviors: Helping Business Travelers Book Smarter.” Conduct...

VIsitors to the Pennsylvania Convention Center this week will see this replica of Michelangelo’s The Pietà.The Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia is going all out to welcome more than 30,000 anticipated religious visitors coming to to...

Who is the meetings industry's next Bill McDermott?

You know that the show floor at IMEX America, coming to Las Vegas October 13–15, is wall to wall with every meeting destination you can imagine—including some notable newcomers this year, such as Paraguay and Cuba. But if you haven...

CWT Meetings & Events is out with its 2016 Meeting and Events Forecast, and the outlook for meeting planners in North America in the next 12 months is tough! Extremely high demand (the highest in more than 30 years) is still so far ahead of...

The 2015 Convention Industry Council Hall of Leaders and Pacesetter Awards Celebration is being revamped from a formal multicourse meal affair to one that instead will offer “artistic” appetizers, cocktails, lounge-style seating, and entertainmen...

There are meetings, and then there are meetings—about 11 million every day, by some estimates! Workers spend an average of about six hours a week in meetings (my, that seems low according to personal experience!). And participants say about...

There are meetings, and then there are meetings—about 11 million every day, by some estimates! Workers spend an average of about six hours a week in meetings (my, that seems low according to personal experience!). And participants say about...