A veteran security consultant says that planners should implement many of the same protocols used for executive-level events across all their meetings.
For one association’s planning team that uses cameras to watch over event spaces during its annual meeting, an on-site incident suddenly changed the mission of the surveillance from quality control to crisis management.
The organization, formed in 1997 as a safety net for people in the events, meetings, and catering industries, continues to raise funds—and hopes—during tough times.
U.S. Travel estimates that the “embarrassingly long” wait times for first-time visa applicants from non-visa-waiver countries will keep 2.6 million people from visiting the U.S. in 2023.
SocialOffset.org helps organizations and their meeting attendees counter the effect of laws in a host destination that they oppose—without resorting to boycotts.
A new insurance product allows organizations to choose which costs and revenue streams are covered, and under which disruptive circumstances. The choices are wider than ever, but some circumstances remain uninsurable.
The organizer of two of the largest meetings-industry shows in the world will focus on content related to “our vulnerabilities and responsibilities as humans” as well as “all that’s good about being human, particularly human diversity.”