Meeting professionals provide their support for face-to-face meetings in a sentence.

Face-to-face meetings provide ROI, according to statistics from Oxford Economics and Maritz Global Travel.

Hilton has joined Marriott in cutting independent meeting planner commissions to 7 percent.

Travel industry leaders travel to Washington, D.C. to advocate for the industry as part of the annual Destination Capitol Hill program.

Hilton may follow Marriott in cutting independent planner commissions from 10% to 7% on October 1, 2018.

A new day is dawning for the embattled tourism promotion industry in Puerto Rico, as CVB veteran Brad Dean, who helmed the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce as CEO for 15 years, is set to take the reins of the newly created Puerto Rico Destination Marketing Organization (PRDMO).

Omni Hotels & Resorts CMO and Senior Vice President of Sales Peter Strebel has been promoted to the position of president of the Dallas-based chain. Strebel is a 30-year hospitality industry veteran with 20 years of experience at Omni.

Forty-four-year meetings and hospitality industry veteran David Bruce, managing partner of the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas-area meeting planning and association management company CMP Meeting Services, knows and cares enough about his profession that he realizes it’s time for a big change.

Tilman J. Fertitta's ultra-luxe Post Oak Hotel at Uptown opened in Houston.

When 35-year meeting planning veteran Sandy Biback retired she found out her work was not finished. But instead of continuing to be tasked with the myriad responsibilities of managing meetings and her Toronto-based independent meeting planning business, she set out to help some of the most vulnerable, and often forgotten, members of our society: victims of human trafficking.