Association Conventions and Expos

If your business events team fills talent shortages and skill gaps with freelancers, or if you’re a freelancer yourself, weigh in on a new Temple University research study. Here’s how.

A marketing expert reveals how associations can leverage their proprietary information to engage sponsors and exhibitors beyond the annual meeting.

From a trove of meeting data, we pull out insights on cost per attendee, meeting formats, technology adoption, and challenges expected next year.

Planners and suppliers explain how meeting groups can influence thinking on controversial issues in a city while accomplishing their event goals and fulfilling their duty-of-care obligations.

The plan to make the facility about 40 percent larger also features the construction of an adjacent headquarters hotel with ample meeting space and dining options.

With the U.N.’s COP28 event on the horizon, the Net-Zero Carbon Events initiative readies new carbon measurement methodologies, reporting tools, and more.

PCMA and Gevme have launched a A.I. tool with built-in event related prompts. Here’s how it works.

Maritz released its Industry Trends Report at IMEX America with some eye-popping data on the rising cost of hotels, airfares, F&B, and other event-budget elements.

Amid contract negotiations, the Culinary Workers Union intensifies pressure on Strip hotel companies with plans for “informational” picket lines.

Association planners share how they’re balancing their efforts between the in-person and virtual versions of their annual meetings—or not.