Meeting and event online solutions company Cvent recently surveyed more than 2,000 of its clients to find out what makes meetings tick these days. Here's a sneak peek of some of the results unveiled at the Cvent Connect conference last week in in...

An expert panel dishes on availability, F&B, the seller’s market, and more.

As a meeting professional, you are in a position of choice each and every day. You choose the venue, meals, speakers, and how to allocate an event budget, among countless other tasks. Great meeting influencers do this unconsciously. But in your...

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John Foster, Esq., CHME, attorney and counsel whose firm Foster, Jensen Here are a few negotiating nuggets gleaned from attending industry event sessions led by John Foster, Esq., CHME, who serves as outside legal counsel for Meeting Professional...

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Can the electronic request for proposal process between meeting planners and hoteliers be improved? The answer was a resounding “yes” from the participants at a session I led at last month’s Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Co...

Global economic growth has been climbing steadily since 2013, a trend that will continue into 2016, according to data crunched by CWT for its 2015 Meetings & Events Forecast, a supplement to its 2015 Global Travel Price Index, which was this...

Global airline alliance oneworld has announced an upgrade to its meeting and convention program, oneworld events, dropping booking fees and allowing attendees to book through travel agencies. Oneworld, a 15-airline alliance that includes America...

Just when you thought you’d learned all about what revenue managers are thinking when your RFPs land on their desks, along comes an article titled "Sea Change" in the September issue of Hotels magazine that turns the topic on its...