Meeting Planning Toolbox

Hotels that aren’t resorts are now catching onto the add-a-mandatory-fee-to-the-base-rate trend—they just give it a new name.

The three experiences that you should add to your next conference are: 1.  Hosted-buyer appointments 2.  A start-up pavilion and Shark Tank theater on your show floor 3.  Roundtable discussions during your day-one lunch ...

For too many requests for proposals, it’s a GIGO situation. That’s “garbage in, garbage out,” explained independent planner Meghan Palm, CMP, HMCC, at the 2018 Pharma Forum in Philadelphia. Her breakout session on improving...

Having a social media component in your crisis communications plan will help you inform and protect your audience should something bad happen.

Follow these guidelines when searching for the right entertainment to make your event a delight instead of a disaster.

With international attendees getting more skittish about coming to the U.S., international meeting planners need to prepare for reduced attendance, or even cancellations.

How one association is reinvigorating its speaker lineup—and blowing up its registration and housing—by leveraging the wisdom of its membership.

In today’s #MeToo environment, event organizers are drawing up codes of conduct, stat. Why one legal expert says that actually may not be in your best interest.

The first step to a great event is understanding how to meet these four categories of attendee needs.

The newest study from Oxford Economics on the economic significance of the meetings industry is out, illustrating the size and impact of meetings, conferences, incentive travel programs, and trade shows...