Global Events Planning

A global view of trending vulnerabilities for travel in the year ahead.

2020’s last-minute online conferences are behind us. Take a more strategic approach to driving digital revenue.

The program starts January 5 at the five Gaylord properties and will expand to other event-focused Marriott hotels shortly thereafter.

The U.S. is celebrating the rollout of the Pfizer vaccine. As welcome as it is, the news delivers yet another challenge for meeting professionals.

Several industry players have released YouTube videos from their recent in-person meetings to demonstrate the cleaning, social-distancing, and other design measures needed to get live events happening again.

With mask-wearing mandated at in-person events, planners should be ready for conversations with people who are opposed to the rule.

Enter 14 event variables to get an estimate of the Covid risk at your next in-person event.

New research finds that meetings and exhibitions should eventually return to pre-Covid levels. But a potentially permanent reduction in other business travel could create cost and capacity issues for those flying to events.

A preview of the annual report looks at the effects of Covid on incentive travel’s ability to motivate, companies’ willingness to invest in travel rewards, and how programs will look going forward.