If there’s a hot topic for hotel and ground transportation companies today, it’s how to embrace—or repel—the “sharing economy,” that is, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, and others. Business travelers have shown that they are clearly in the “embrace” camp, so...
Today’s guest post is by Matthew Pavli, a digital marketer for Display Wizard.
Event marketing is rapidly evolving. To keep up, event organisers need to be innovative in how they reach out to businesses and event attendees—without losing sight...
A C-level panel and lots of accomplished, inspiring, and dedicated women were among the on-stage highlights at the 2nd Annual Women in Travel Summit, attended by some 400 women (and men!) at the Hyatt Regency Orlando July 25, all exemplifying the...
Velvet Chainsaw Consulting’s Jeff Hurt, always a thought-provoking guy, once again really got me thinking, this time about meeting industry certifications, with his post, Dangerous Assumptions About Your Conference Education Part I. Among those a...
Although the heads of corporate travel departments and the heads of meeting departments within companies have many of the same strategic goals and work with many of the same suppliers, they commonly work independently of one another. But this may...
Today's guest post is by Andrew Taffin, CEO of Tallen Technology Rentals.
If you want your event to be truly memorable, infuse it with the host city’s local flavor. Here’s how audiovisual technology can help imbue a meeting with a real “sen...
MeetingsNet asked Carina Bauer, CEO of IMEX Group, to identify five major global meeting trends and discuss how they played into the design of the education and activities at IMEX Frankfurt 2015, and how they will be integrated at IMEX America...
Sunset over St. Thomas on our last evening before flying homeTime for my annual post-vacation post about how meeting planning is a lot like sailing (really!). I know I’ve written several times about the sailing/planning parallels that have occurr...
I was so excited when I saw a press release come through earlier today from event app producer myQaa on its new initiative to recognize the women who are rising to the top of the male-dominated event technology field. These are no doubt some seri...
Even meeting planners—especially meeting planners—often are guilty of these conference etiquette infractions. Are you one of them?
