Five L.A.-area CVB leaders—West Hollywood, Marina del Rey, Long Beach, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica—share their thoughts on the road ahead for meetings.
Meetings Today sat down with Visit Baltimore President and CEO Al Hutchinson to discuss “rolling the dice” on hosting Destinations International’s 2021 Annual Convention in person and why CVBs/DMOs are great partners for planners.
While meetings and conventions took a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, Columbus didn’t stop working to ensure that when the time came to return to in-person meetings, planners and attendees had all the tools they needed for a successful event.
At Destinations International’s 2021 Annual Convention in Baltimore, we sat in on a session from MMGY NextFactor about trends affecting both leisure tourism and business events. A study presented by NextFactor President Paul Ouimet laid out a roadmap for CVBs and DMOs to help in the recovery of their community’s hospitality sector post pandemic.
Futurist Scott Steinberg shares his expertise at spotting, and preparing for, trends, and how they relate to organizations in the meetings and events industry.
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge Chef de Cuisine Denevin Miranda brings his grandmother’s love of Filipino cuisine and his mother’s Italian, Greek and other NYC melting pot styles to the New American menu of this Pier 1 hotel. Discover his recipe for White Gazpacho With Jumbo Lump Crab.
