The September 12-14 event for more than 40,000 Salesforce customers continued its “national park” theme inside and outside of Moscone Center, while CEO Marc Benioff praised the city’s preparation—but offered no future guarantees.

After a devasting earthquake, is now the time to bring more than 10,000 people to a meeting in Marrakech? The IMF and World Bank are working with Morocco to make the call.

The David L. Lawrence Convention Center has joined a short list of convention facilities around the country with resources and training aimed at helping attendees with sensory issues.

A veteran planner discusses how she nudges hotels to act on her requests for proposal: She gives to get.

Reduce the maximum attendance by a lot. Eliminate the call for proposals. No, we’re not kidding. One association did those things and it worked.

Improve your meetings’ productivity by leveraging the effects color can have on attendees’ mood and engagement.

An early-September convention in Los Angeles might see just a fraction of its 6,000 registered attendees after pressure from the hotel workers’ union failed to persuade the group to cancel the event.

As with recent hotel-labor agreements around the country plus a new contract for UPS workers, fresh contracts for more than 45,000 airline pilots may well affect costs around business events.

After the pandemic and in the remote-work environment, it’s not enough to simply plan a meeting and have people show up. Many employees’ social skills have suffered in recent years—something that planners can proactively address.

Hyatt now faces a class-action suit alleging misleading pricing, and federal legislation has been proposed to drive hotel-cost transparency industry-wide.