Toronto is Canada’s diversity capital, where more than 250 ethnicities are represented and over 170 languages are spoken, and it surrounds you wherever you go, from boutique hotel properties to diverse local retail and offsite attractions.
Ensuring supplier diversity is a key objective of meetings and events DEI. Here are five cities that fully embrace the concept by promoting goods, services and venues owned by people from marginalized groups.
Leading Asian American inclusivity consultant Jolene Jang discusses the many facets of the Asian American and Pacific Islander culture and the challenges faced by this massive demographic in the meetings and events industry.
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) May 18, Meetings Today sat down with Stephen Cutchins, senior product manager-accessibility at Cvent, to discuss his work around driving accessibility in Cvent's meetings and events technology tools and raising awareness about accessibility across the meetings and events industry.
Event Service Professionals Association published a free downloadable guide, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a Guide for Event Service Professionals, that provides actionable insights for meetings professionals to help ensure DEI at their events.
As we move through 2023 with the mindset of making meetings and events industry trends a long-term reality, Alicia Jenelle, a multi-hyphenate professional and international experiential design expert from Toronto, shares how to push the DEIB conversation one step forward.
When faced with adversity, what mindset do you deploy? Sonia Fong, senior vice president of convention development at Louisville Tourism, shares her experience and perspective on leading by example, practicing gratitude and building resilience.
Podcast sponsored by Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
Meetings Today touched base with two leading DEI proponents, Greg DeShields, executive director of Tourism Diversity Matters, and Sheila Alexander-Reid, executive director diversity for PHL Diversity (a division of the Philadelphia CVB) to get their take on successes as well as the challenges ahead.
California is taking a leading role in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in the tourism and meetings and events industries. Here are three Golden State tourism and education leaders who are blazing the way to a more equitable future for all.