Global Events Planning

The U.S. is celebrating the rollout of the Pfizer vaccine. As welcome as it is, the news delivers yet another challenge for meeting professionals.

Several industry players have released YouTube videos from their recent in-person meetings to demonstrate the cleaning, social-distancing, and other design measures needed to get live events happening again.

With mask-wearing mandated at in-person events, planners should be ready for conversations with people who are opposed to the rule.

Enter 14 event variables to get an estimate of the Covid risk at your next in-person event.

New research finds that meetings and exhibitions should eventually return to pre-Covid levels. But a potentially permanent reduction in other business travel could create cost and capacity issues for those flying to events.

A preview of the annual report looks at the effects of Covid on incentive travel’s ability to motivate, companies’ willingness to invest in travel rewards, and how programs will look going forward.

Infection specialists are now more concerned about airborne spread of coronavirus than surface-based spread, and advising venues to adapt their efforts accordingly.

The latest content from the APEX Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force focuses on convention-bureau communications.

Lessons for safe and healthy in-person events from a certified Covid compliance officer.

New event-attendance protocols from Ticketmaster could become a blueprint for the meetings industry.