The planners and hospitality partners who gather at Financial & Insurance Conference Planners events could hardly be a more congenial group. Both sides are experienced and professional, they’re focused on the long term, they enjoy...

Meeting planners enjoy networking at industry meetings. They share ideas, commiserate about challenges, compare travel schedules. But it’s unusual when a senior executive and meeting owner takes the time to attend an industry conference to...

With more than 60 properties across the JW Marriott, Renaissance, Marriott, and Gaylord brands, as well as the Autograph Collection, Marriott’s Convention & Resort Network can be a revealing microcosm of the big-meeting universe, revealing trends...

Having kept a low profile for a bit, the Green Meeting Industry Council is striding back to life with new resources behind it and a new ability to spread its message and its impact across the meetings and events industry...

Meeting and travel planners have a lot of questions about the mosquito-borne Zika virus, and unfortunately some of those questions are unanswerable right now. For example, despite a dramatic increase in the cases of babies born with microcepha...

In the 2016 Winter Meetings Outlook from Meeting Professionals International, respondents predicted a little spending increase but a bigger pricing increase. MPI put those predictions together and what came out was a 2.5 percent decrease in...

There are a few ways to think about revenue management. One is that it gives hoteliers a formula for maximizing revenue per available room. Another is that it’s the “Moneyball” of hospitality—a triumph of data over judgment and experience. And th...

When Lisa Devlin, Esq., Devlin Law Firm, PC, Phoenix, and Barbara Dunn, Esq., Barnes & Thornburg LLP, in Chicago, present case studies from actual meeting contract disputes in education sessions, they sometimes conclude that the parties could...

Julie Coker Graham is the new president and CEO of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, replacing President and CEO Jack Ferguson, who retired on December 31, 2015. Coker Graham had been executive vice president at the Philadelphia C...