Incentive organizers should take their increasing budgets and positive outlook and focus on attracting and retaining high-performing employees to help their organizations through the coming talent shortage. Venues should abandon the wellness...

Hold a meeting at an Omni property, use the hotel company’s technology partner, Encore Event Technologies, a Freeman Company, and get a free event app. Encore, which is on site at more than three dozen properties in the Omni portfolio and is...

Planners who attended the recent Omni Hotels & Resorts Be Collaborative education and networking event in Boston are now designated Omni Meetings Specialists, having taken the Omni Meetings University online course and passed the multiple...

I participated on an enlightening, inspiring, and informative panel at this month’s Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference in Hawaii, sharing a behind the scenes look at booking entertainment for events...

The U.S. Travel Association calls it the “annual stress test” for airports. It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and if you’re a traveler who avoids these peak travel days at all costs, you might want to stop reading now...

In previous pieces I have written about how important I think strategic meetings management is, and what I think should be included in an SMM program. And yet, it seems to me that the spread of SMM has stalled. For the purposes of this discussion...

Global economic growth has been climbing steadily since 2013, a trend that will continue into 2016, according to data crunched by CWT for its 2015 Meetings & Events Forecast, a supplement to its 2015 Global Travel Price Index, which was this...

The solo traveler knows it’s sometimes a bit lonely on the road. Meeting planners understand this better than most; when your attendees go home and the last box is shipped, there’s often empty time to fill. I’d resolved in the...