Meeting Planning Toolbox

A new podcast looks at what meeting planners and suppliers can learn from the U.N. Climate Change Conference and what they can do to help achieve the conference’s goals.

Starting with a pledge made for an upcoming U.N. emissions-reduction conference, the Joint Meetings Industry Council has developed goals and strategies for drastically reducing carbon from events in the coming years.

Next week, Maui and Kauai add their own levy on top of state hotel taxes. Oahu has moved closer to doing so by early 2022, and the Big Island might do the same.

Shifting trends are found in how planners are measuring sustainability as well as overall event success, plus technology, budgets, and staffing.

Hiring and job hunting is often an extracurricular activity of the conference experience. With in-person meetings heating up, IMEX America could be buzzing with interviews. Are you ready?

Many meeting pros want to take their sustainability initiatives to the next level, and the educational lineup at the Las Vegas event is ready to help.

Remaking a building that’s an architectural-design landmark, Hotel Marcel New Haven will be an environmental-design landmark too.

Communication quality can be diminished along with trust in the messages being delivered. But there are ways to remedy the downsides to speaking through a mask.