The Bath Pavilion, one of the venues available for rent through BetterVenues.comIt may still be sunny outside, but the holiday season is just around the corner. For event professionals, now’s the time we start to look at our budgets and dive into...

Advito has released its 2017 Industry Forecast, and on just about every page is a note about the difficulty of projecting business travel and meeting demand because of uncertainty surrounding the U.S. presidential election. The report acknowledges...

The MeetingsNet content team has been telecommuting for at least two decades, so back in the spring of 2007 when former Editorial Director Betsy Bair and I had a meeting to discuss a potential new project, it was over coffee and muffins in a subu...

Dallas-based Freeman, which annually produces more than 4,300 expositions and 11,000 corporate and special events, has earned the international Event Sustainability Management certification, ISO 20121...

In my last article, I talked about creating a solid sponsorship strategy. Now let’s focus on the next step: acquiring your sponsors. We know why sponsors are important. They drive revenue and thereby help you increase the value of the event...

The Atlantis, Paradise Island, resort in The Bahamas has launched phase one of a $20 million transformation at what is currently known as the Coral Towers. Once all renovations are complete, the 694-room hotel will reopen as The Corals...

On September 8, the 50th anniversary of International Literacy Day (designated by UNESCO in 1966), Rosewood Hotel Group announced its partnership with Room to Read, a global organization that aims to transform lives in low-income countries by foc...

People no longer come to your meetings to get information. They come to make sense of the deluge of information they already have. They also attend face-to-face meetings to feel something, whether it’s to be transported to the moon by your keynot...