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 ...

Effective marketing plays a crucial role in boosting attendance and enhancing the attendee experience for your organization’s event, and a well-rounded marketing strategy can significantly impact the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

• Image Audiovisuals, the on-site audiovisual provider at the Colorado Convention Center, unveiled a virtual platform that replicates part of that facility for use in hybrid and virtual events. The ...

In her 12 years at event-technology firm Cvent, Allyson Keenan has risen from marketing intern to event planner to event-operations manager and event technologist. So, she has a broad and clear ...

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 ...

When Conrad Los Angeles opens in 2022, Hilton’s Conrad Hotels & Resorts luxury brand will have its first property in California. The 28-story hotel will be part of a mixed-use development called The ...