About 225 attendees at the third annual Hosts Global Alliance Forum enjoyed a solid education program along with plenty of the creativity that destination management companies offer meeting planners. Knowing how challenging it is for a DMC to hos...

Noting the dearth of women at the mics of most technology conferences, Sandi MacPherson, founder of a professional network called Quibb, decided to do something about it. Starting with this tweet: Please add yourself and share!! I'm starting...

With so many tasks on the to-do list of a meeting professional the one I often hear complaints about is the speaker-booking process. Meeting managers complain that speakers get paid too much, are hard to connect with, and can be demanding. Speake...

Dale IrvinMy name is Dale, and I am The Professional Summarizer. My goal in life is to boil down the gigabits of information available in the world today to a few finely distilled comments. I do this for conferences all over the world and in this...

Our comedy group, Four Day Weekend, has had the honor and pleasure of performing at corporate awards banquets for more than a decade. Typically, we were hired to perform after the awards, which meant we were invariably met with a very challenging...

A new study from the Incentive Research Foundation explores the value proposition of destination management companies in today’s changing marketplace.

Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt being interviewed by one of those pesky women, Paloma Baytelman, who shared this photo on Flickr.While making sincere efforts to do away with all-male panels is a start (and kudos to The Event Manager Blog Founder Julius S...

If you want to take your employees or organization members off site for some bonding and teambuilding, or when your incentive qualifiers are booked into a warm-weather resort, why not treat them to the rolling green fairways and beautiful...

The sculptured wooden elephant in Atrium I represents a beloved Thai talisman, and a lovely backdrop for some Thai food.The Hilton Anatole, which is located in Dallas’ Design District and has close to 350,000 square feet of flexible meeting space...