Timothy L. Price, executive vice president at the Southern Cotton Ginners Association (SCGA) in Memphis, Tennessee, shared his experience planning an association event at the Golden Nuggest Biloxi with help from the Coastal Mississippi tourism organization.

Coastal Mississippi checks all of the boxes on any meeting planner’s—and meeting attendee’s—checklist. Its miles of beautiful beachfronts, world-class gaming and award-winning culinary offerings make it a prime destination for groups of all sizes. The Biloxi area’s all-in-one casino resorts provide all of this and then some. 

In the spirit of National Stress Awareness Month in April, we checked in with mindfulness and stress-reduction experts Lee Papa and Holly Duckworth to get their perspectives on innovative ways to slay—or at least tame—the stress dragon in every planner. Both Papa and Duckworth work within the meetings industry as speakers and advisers.

Meetings Today checked in with five expert international meeting and event planners to get their golden tips for planning and executing successful meetings abroad.

The Howard, an Oshkosh, Wisconsin, property that includes an event space, a concert hall and a café, debuted The Lanes, a vintage-style bowling alley.

There are many beautiful beach destinations around the world, but when corporate groups visit Hawaii, they want to know they are in Hawaii. The best destination meetings offer authentic cultural and educational experiences in a distinctive location and, to successfully achieve this, you need a local, experienced staff that knows what makes the destination especially unique.

Meet Swedish Jam Factory, a multi-genre and multi-instrumentalist tap dancing duo comprised of Thomas Bergstig and Isaac Middleton. These guys will get your attendees up and grooving with their unconventional, excitement-filled performance.

I was staying at the San Diego  Marriott Marquis for the ContentTech Summit in 2019 and the team there gave me a tour of the hotel event space.

Learn the A-to-Z of event tech and AV. Tyler Davidson talks with meetings tech and AV expert Jon Trask, who details his Best Practices: Event Tech primer in Meetings Today. Trask will give arm you with the basic information you need to offer a robust AV and tech offering without busting your budget.

Rosen Hotels & Resorts launched Amazon Echo voice technology to empower meeting planners with instant information about three of its Orlando convention hotels. Meeting Planners simply have to command “Alexa, Ask Rosen..." to an Echo device or mobile app to get key event information.