We’re ready to move forward with in-person meetings, but the site selection and contracting process that meeting professionals know from just a few years ago has changed.

Now is the time to start thinking about 2023 sales kick-off events. For many organizations, this is the first time in three years they will be hosting their “traditional” kick-offs.

It’s been a tough couple of years. The pandemic, resulting shutdown and lingering impact on business events is rightly top-of-mind. The focus has been on cancellations, virtual meetings, the “ids”—CovID and HybrID.

If the last few years have taught us anything in the events industry, it’s to be prepared for anything.

As meeting professionals skill up to greet the new age of meetings and events, it’s more important than ever to re-evaluate and update the defined value proposition for bringing people together.

CVBs, aka DMOs, have long played a critical role for meetings and events.

After a year of reconnection and recovery, the meetings and events industry has big expectations for 2023.