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 ...

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 ...

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In Kauai, Hawaii, the Coco Palms Resort, once host to celebrity guests such as Elvis Presley, Rita Hayworth, and Frank Sinatra, never reopened after Hurricane Iniki struck the island in 1992. Now, ...

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 ...

It can be hard to talk to stakeholders and suppliers about sustainability when the terms are confusing or poorly defined. Here is a handy primer explaining 14 of the most common sustainability terms ...

On Thursday, April 8, Global Meetings Industry Day featured several in-person and virtual events that highlighted the importance of the meeting, incentive, convention, and trade-show industry, while ...

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 ...

Taxes “A lot of the tax policies that were passed in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will be expiring by the end of 2025, and that creates what we here in Washington, D.C., call a ‘tax cliff,’” said ...

To determine the right questions to measure meeting effectiveness, we did a deep dive into our meeting survey response databases containing thousands of different post-meeting evaluation surveys. Our ...

Five blocks from the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Sheraton at the Capitol is in the final phase of a multimillion-dollar transformation to become Downright Austin, a Renaissance Hotel. Mixing ...

In 2022, Orlando and Chicago will host more of the country’s largest conventions than other U.S. cities, and there’s a good chance that those conventions will focus on health, medical, or ...