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Hospitality Education Must Change to Include All Life Events

When planning life-cycle events, including end-of-life events, we need to learn to ask better, deeper questions that are not able to be answered with “yes” or “no.” We need to broaden what hospitality and meetings courses and programs teach to broaden the opportunities to support others in life events and to provide new opportunities for employment.

Why Reading Is Fundamental to Professional Success

I’m always finding new and interesting things to read and I truly believe it is an easy way to benefit your career and sharpen your mind—and maybe even unwind, depending on what you choose to read. Staying current on the news can certainly help you in your event planning. Though my preferred method of reading is in print, on paper, I do also read digitally. I know regardless of what and how you read, it will be of benefit.

Where Life, Death, Grief and Hospitality Connect

Now or next week, at a meeting or event where we are to network and enjoy ourselves—or perhaps in your office—someone, maybe you, are or will be grieving. Perhaps you have been asked, as I was, to help plan a life celebration for a co-worker or a friend or a family member. Because sometimes, just as we are asked to help plan joyous events, we are asked to help with end-of-life events.

Are There Stupid Meeting Questions? It Depends!

You know the questions: "Where's the bathroom?" asks a participant standing under the restroom sign. Or you, the planner, asks "Who is the hotel's owner?" to which the response is "Why do you want to know?" To questions about making changes in meeting formats, the response is too often "We've always done it that way. Why change now?"

Balancing Parenting and Caregiving While Working in Hospitality

Those of you who are parents and work full or part time, from home or in a hotel or convention center or office—or those of you who are caregivers for someone—have multiple jobs. I do not know how you do it.

International Women's Day: Moving the Industry Forward

Each time I’ve asked women in our industry if they consider themselves feminists they hesitate. Not all of them—but enough and in different age cohorts that I think there is a fear of being a strong woman, showing you are a strong woman, and identifying as a feminist. We can do more and better.

MGM Abandons Talks With Wynn Over Sale of Encore Boston Harbor

Anti-Abortion Laws Threaten Meetings Industry With Escalating Destination Boycotts

$300 Million Strong: Measuring the LGBT MPA Community’s Impact on Events

New Five-Star Hotel Approved for Las Vegas Strip

‘Tacoasis’: Taco Bell to Open Palm Springs Resort

TWA Hotel Debuts at JFK Airport

Renaissance Dallas Hotel Unveils New Guest Rooms

Great Wolf Lodge Williamsburg Completes Renovation

VisitDallas CEO Phillip Jones Resigns

L.A. Tourism Hits All-Time High: What This Means for Meeting Professionals