If it weren’t for my meetings industry mentors, you wouldn’t be reading this column today.

Meetings Today caught up with three Nashville-based events profs who specialize in booking honky-tonk events to make sure your Music City night on the town hits all the right notes.

Meeting and event planners could reasonably claim force majeure if they needed to cancel a meeting or mitigate attrition damages in the wake of the global CrowdStrike outage that stranded or delayed tens of thousands of air travelers July 19.

Destination organizations from around the world descended on Florida’s Tampa area for Destinations International’s Annual Convention, drawing record crowds to tackle the biggest trends in the tourism industry.

Visit Orlando announced that it hired Las Vegas meetings veteran Lisa Messina as its new chief sales officer. She will begin her new role August 19.