How well meeting planners listen to colleagues, management, suppliers, and others can be improved by practicing four things. In turn, planners can enhance their work performance—and their career path.

Asking the right questions and creating a clear policy will give you the ammunition to control firearms at your meetings.

Several major hotel firms have announced new partnerships and substantial financial contributions to combat trafficking on their premises.

If the two airlines combine operations under one flag as anticipated, there’s likely to be winners and losers among cities popular for business events.

Forget the post-event online survey. At least one show lets attendees step to the microphone on the final day to offer their unvarnished opinions to planners sitting on the stage.

Encore’s latest Planner Pulse report finds that transportation and food & beverage are the most hard-hit budget items, while large events are being planned more often on shorter notice.

The Event Leaders Exchange has virtual think tanks planned through the fall, along with a benchmarking study and in-person gathering.

Let’s move beyond simple checklists, one-time social initiatives, and basic measurements of landfill avoidance and recycling, and start thinking more systemically and longer term.

The Events Industry Council has bolstered the industry-wide program it took over in 2019.

Planners of academic and scientific conferences detail all the factors they must consider when planning a hybrid meeting, and it’s not pretty.