Meetings Today thought it would be an interesting exercise to flip the Global Meetings Industry Day equation by asking some key meetings industry thought leaders and influencers about what they think we should focus on in the meetings industry to improve it from within?

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).

Since January 2018, Sookman has volunteered her time to Women’s Empowerment, a Sacramento, Calif.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has helped more than 1,300 homeless women secure housing, a job or enroll in school or training programs.

The tragic events that seem to impact our world at an ever increasing rate, from mass shootings and natural disasters to criminal acts, are especially dangerous in a legal sense to organizers of meetings and events.

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) is April 12, 2018, and here's where and how to participate.

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.