MeetingsNet – September/October 2023Cover Story — Top Planning Companies: CMI 25 2023 Stats, news, and more in our profiles of the top independent meeting-planning companies doing business with the ...

As a group, the organizations on this year’s CMI 25 list executed nearly 150,000 corporate meetings and more than 1,400 incentive-travel programs. In total, those events used more than 7 million room ...

How to Plan a Zero Waste Event: A Primer 1. Choose a venue that understands your needs. Begin by selecting a venue that already practices sustainability or is open to collaborating on your event’s ...

As the growing interest in workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion expands, meeting professionals are considering how events can be more inclusive for neurodiverse attendees, including those with ...

Raffles Hotels & Resorts, the luxury AccorHotels brand, will open its first U.S. property in Boston in 2022. The $400 million Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences is under construction on Stuart ...

of the event or those attending the show for the first time. The researchers also found variations by industry. Food and restaurant conferences are one example of a late-registering sector, with 54 ...

Khris Baizen Senior Director of Production Sales Encore “I’ve embraced a mindset where change is not a one-time occurrence but a continuous cycle of improvement.” Read Baizen’s change story. Jennifer ...

A dude ranch in Montana. A jungle resort in Costa Rica. A mountainside chalet colony in Norway. These are not the sites of your parents’ corporate retreats. Heck, they aren’t even the sites of your ...

With its topping-out ceremony set for mid-July, the newest hospitality addition to the Shreveport-Bossier City area is on track to debut in Q1 2025. Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana will be a 545-room ...

Warning: Please note that the generated output is not legal advice. You are advised to consult a lawyer. That’s the small print on the legal prompts in Spark, the meetings-specific generative-A.I.

an upscale restaurant, a gourmet café, a lobby bar, and a rooftop pool bar with a terrace. Additional amenities include a full-service spa and wellness center. With a location that’s four blocks from ...

As the association community comes out of the Covid pandemic with a desire—and a financial need—to have their annual meetings be essential to their members, things will have to be different than ...