Visit Denver is the first destination marketing organization to earn EIC’s highest sustainability status. So, what did it take to make the grade and what does that status mean or groups? Here’s a sampling of the criteria.

A selection of open-air and historic venues in Arizona, California, Utah, and Nevada can only be booked through the new Open Venues site.

The Joule, an independent hotel in downtown Dallas, has invested in a major renovation of its 10,200 square feet of meeting space.

A block from the city’s convention center, a non-gaming Hard Rock Hotel with more than 400 guest rooms has set its sights on a mid-2027 opening.

A Trump-branded luxury resort will reflag as a Hilton LXR property early next year, with property-wide upgrades to follow.

A former estate, the family-owned Hotel Hartness opened earlier this year in Greenville, S.C., with 16,000 square feet of indoor meeting space, a former airfield that’s now a huge events lawn, and its own farm.

Four new small-group meeting rooms have opened at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club

The 17 Caesars and MGM Resorts properties on the Strip faced a Friday strike threat by 35,000 culinary-union members, with the Formula 1 Grand Prix race set to happen late next week.

In the northwest corner of Georgia, a mountaintop golfing community will soon have a new hotel and a second championship course.

The fifth Kalahari Resorts and Conventions property is reprising its two-pronged strategy, with plans for both a huge convention center and a giant water park.