Executives from GBTA’s Meetings & Events Europe Committee weigh in on top meeting trends that, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse, just won’t quit.
Freight carrier Yellow Corp. is shutting down its large operation as early as next week. Coupled with rising gas prices, this could mean notably higher shipping costs for event organizers and exhibitors.
Room blocks at Radisson, Cambria, Comfort Inns & Suites, Clarion, and Quality Inn properties will soon be bookable without RFPs, aiding corporate-event planners and perhaps association-convention planners.
The union representing 340,000 UPS workers is threatening a strike when its contract expires on July 31, risking delays and higher costs for event organizers, exhibitors, and others who must ship materials to host properties.
Bloggers and marketers have been using artificial intelligence to create brief videos from text, still images, and moving graphics. Now, A.I.-led video editing of speakers’ presentations can help event hosts generate robust social-media content as...
Morgan Stanley’s newly minted employee-meetings division ramped up to doing more than 350 meetings in short order with leadership from Changemaker Fatina Coleman.