2017 Meetings Today Trends Survey interview with Robert Wilson, Sales Director, Otsego Club and Resort, Gaylord, Mich.

2017 Meetings Today Trends Survey Interview with Kathleen Quill.

2017 Meetings Today Trends Survey meeting planner interview with Barbara Moll, Administrative Assistant, Food Export Midwest, Chicago.

2017 Meetings Today Trends Survey meeting planner interview with Stephan J Gerhardt.

2017 Meetings Today Trends Survey meeting planner interview with Lexy Olisko.

Interviews with the meeting and event planner respondents of the 2017 Meetings Today Trends Survey.

Starting with his first restaurant, Aureole, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Palmer soon after opened Metrazur in the city’s Grand Central Terminal, followed by another Aureole, in Las Vegas, and then Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington, D.C. A two-time James Beard Award winner—among many other professional accomplishments—author of six cookbooks and a frequent guest on NBC’s Today Show, the celebrated chef’s empire now stands at 14 venues, including three boutique hotels that cater to small meetings. But it’s the chef-driven hotel concept that truly sets him apart.

The much-anticipated opening of the Washington, D.C. area’s MGM National Harbor featured a raft of notables.

Please join me in welcoming Jennifer Juergens as our new contributing content developer.

One of the meetings world’s most-notable tech experts got her start in the event planning industry in perhaps one of the most unlikely ways.

“My career started in hospitality when I was doing marketing for a property on the Red Sea in Egypt,” remembered Dahlia El Gazzar, Tech Evangelist + Idea Igniteur of DAHLIA+ and Empowerment+, a new entrant in the meetings tech world that aims to educate attendees about event technology on-site at conferences. “I started creating these events where I would meet with the Bedouins in the Sinai to create camel races. I took the mattresses from the chaise lounge swimming pool chairs and shipped them to the middle of the desert to rent them to Italian tourists for $150 per night to see the stars.”