EVENTup, an online database of more than 10,000 event venues in the U.S., has launched EVENTup Curated Experiences, a collection of packaged corporate events at venues in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City. Events will continue to be...
From birth to our first formal education experience in pre-school or kindergarten, we learn mostly through observation, exploration, and experience. We watch our parents and siblings and learn how (or how not) to do something. We explore, using...
In 2012, I became my organization’s social media manager, combining my experience in meeting management with my studies in interactive media. To many, this seemed like a departure from a career path on which I’d traveled for more than...
A meeting planner’s site inspection is a hotel’s chance to show off its service, staff, facilities, responsiveness—or, as in our collection of stories here, a chance for a property to shoot itself in the foot. Have you experienced any of these...
"Frankly, I think the site visit is the most important part of the game plan for a successful program," says one longtime corporate meeting professional. In fact, it can make or break a hotel's prospects for booking a meeting, as we found out...
Take a deep breath and you can smell it in the air—it’s incentive season! Travel incentives are meant to give qualifiers an experience like no other. Planners work tirelessly to introduce their groups to the sights, smells, sounds...
The Web site Kapow Events wants to make your life easier and your plate less full. Browse the site’s ever-growing catalog of curated small-event packages, click to book, wait for confirmation of availability, type in your credit card...
Pacific World regularly checks in with its offices in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia to create a monthly Destination Index, showing the currently trending cities and countries for meetings and incentives. Now, the DMC and event...
Everyone wants to wow attendees with a cool reception or other special event at their conference, but what do people really want? Interactivity, cocktails, and food top the list, according to this cool infographic from Kapow Events. It also cover...
We’re well into the new year, and with so much to be grateful for, I thought I would pass along some suggestions for “random acts of kindness” I’ve seen that would be wonderful for more companies and meeting planners to do...
