With the recent opening of the new Banc of California Stadium, Exposition Park in Downtown Los Angeles has been getting a lot of attention. 

Getting to Irving is easy. It’s less than a three-hour flight from both coasts with two international airports—DFW International and Love Field.

Conventions need convenience, and we’ve got the keys. With flexible space, high-tech features compatible with advanced event technology, a central downtown location, and accessible onsite amenities, the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland is a convenient solution for modern events.

For meeting planners on the hunt to bring their next event into the Southern California sunshine, we’ve rounded up the best outdoor spaces for your next meeting in Anaheim and Orange County.

Meeting and event planners working with a facility’s convention services team can help ensure their program is a success by providing some very basic, but essential, information. Maxine Compean, associate event manager for the dual-branded the DOUGLAS, Autograph Collection and the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, offered the following six tips to keep meeting and event planners and the convention services team on the same page.

Tyler Davidson talks with Michael Owen, a 30-year meetings and events industry veteran who has also worked in the entertainment industry for half a century, about why planners need to secure music licensing through performing rights organizations such as BMI or ASCAP—or risk paying hefty fines for playing music at events.

Marriott’s Convention & Resort Network (CRN) ventured decidedly out of the box with its recent 48-Hour Film Challenge, which pitted four teams of independent filmmakers against each other to produce short films on an extremely tight deadline. The competition also showed off the flexibility of the meeting space at Vancouver, British Columbia’s the DOUGLAS, Autograph Collection hotel and the convention facilities it shares with the attached JW Marriott Parq Vancouver.

Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit Executive Chef Guillaume Morance shared a tuna ceviche with mango and avocado recipe and also provided a demonstration of the recipe filmed directly on the beach.

Carrying the tagline “Beyond All-Inclusive, Beyond All Compare,” the Velas Resorts properties offer food and beverage options that rival top non-resort restaurants. Overseeing it all—22 gourmet restaurants brand-wide, with cuisine types ranging from French and Italian to Asian and Mexican—is Michel Mustiere, culinary director for Velas Resorts.

The list of top event and incentive destinations for 2019 are in. Pacific World, a global destination and event management company, announced its annual destination list that is based on requests and number of events confirmed for 2019.