Checking In: Ringing in the New (Jan. 2017)

December 28, 2016

Tyler Davidson

Happy New Year! Not only has the calendar changed, but we’ve had a change on the Content portion of our masthead (that thingy up and to the right, with all the names and fancy titles).

Please join me in welcoming Jennifer Juergens as our new contributing content developer, Florida and Caribbean! Jennifer brings a wealth of Florida and Caribbean travel trade experience to the party, having most recently held the position of manager of convention communication for Visit Orlando, truly one of the top CVBs in the nation, and was the editor-in-chief of Incentive magazine before that.

She’ll be handling our Florida and Caribbean destination sections as well as our annual Meetings Today Florida supplement, in addition to representing Meetings Today at various Florida and Caribbean travel trade events. She’s one of the most professional people I’ve worked with in my many years in the travel trade industry, so I’m very excited to welcome her to the fold.

In This Issue
And speaking of new, our cover story was a study in deadline-driven journalism, as the merger of Lanyon Solutions with Cvent roiled the meetings industry tech waters at the end of November, right as we entered production on this issue.

The “solution,” so to speak, was to hop on a plane and fly to Cvent’s Tysons Corner, Va., headquarters to talk with its founder and CEO, Reggie Aggarwal, to get the skinny. Turn to page 16 to discover what’s up at Cvent and what to expect in this meetings industry tech segment in the near future.

Happy New Year!

About the author

Tyler Davidson is the vice president and chief content director for Meetings Today, which publishes the meetings industry trade magazine Meetings Today as well as MeetingsToday.com, various newsletters, webinars, the in-person Meetings Today LIVE! Hosted-buyer events and other meetings and events industry B2B channels.

Tyler has covered the travel trade for nearly 35 years. In his role with Meetings Today, which recently won the prestigious FOLIO: Eddies Award for best magazine issue, Tyler leads the editorial team on its mission to provide the most in-depth meetings content in the industry. Previously, he worked as the Asia, Canada, Pacific Northwest and Western U.S. editor at Travel Weekly magazine and TravelAge West. Before joining the dual editorial staff producing destination sections for Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, Tyler was the Africa, Israel, Middle East, Switzerland and Pacific Northwest editor at TravelAge West. He also undertook general news and feature assignments while working at the magazines.

Besides reporting on the travel trade, Tyler has covered the real estate industry, held various editorial positions at the San Francisco-based national satire magazine The Nose, wrote freelance technology industry pieces and covered the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders for a bilingual newspaper in San Francisco. He has a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University, where he worked in various editorial capacities on its award-winning student magazine, Prism.

Contact: tyler.davidson@meetingstoday.com