About 400 women and men (but mostly women) packed a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Orlando last summer for the second annual Women In Travel Summit, an event unique in the meetings and business travel world for both its mission and its price—free...

Conversations about professional growth and achievement

Women (and a few men, too) in the meetings industry share their insights. Add your two cents and grow our list!

You need more than excellent work to get ahead. At the senior-most levels, you need people with influence on your side.

As we head into 2016, face-to-face meetings are considered a high-priority investment by 82 percent of senior executives. Meetings ranked higher on the priority list than technology (79 percent) and customer research (66 percent)...

At an all-company meeting in mid-December, Creative Group’s 150 employees started the day at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee with plain white name badges and tent cards. But when they returned to their seats after lunch, the scene had changed. New na...

Each week, MeetingsNet invites readers to meet a member of WomenInTravel. WINiT is a nonprofit, volunteer-led organization founded in 2013 to support and empower women in the meeting, event, travel, and exhibition industries through access to car...

I'd love to be one of those people who are snoozing before the wheels lift off the tarmac. Unfortunately, I'm the other kind, the one who is surreptitiously trying to camouflage her reading light at 3 a.m. while everyone else on the plane is lite...