Meetings Today’s Tyler Davidson talks with Thrive! Meetings & Events’ Tracy Stuckrath about what planners need to know about F&B preferences, restrictions and how to make sure attendees who have allergies are protected. Stuckrath is the foremost group F&B food allergy expert in the industry.

Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas is joining the list of properties offering free self- and valet parking fees for overnight hotel guests as of January 1, 2019. The parking fee was previously $10 per night, however, the hotel is simultaneously raising the daily resort fee by $4 per night, going from $35 to $39. Day visitors at the Cosmopolitan without will still be charged hourly parking fees.

Meeting planners in the Meetings Today Market Trends Survey respond as to whether their budget and attendance will increase or decrease in 2019.

Meeting planners in the Meetings Today Market Trends Survey respond as to what worries them about the meetings industry.

NGALA Wildlife Preserve, located on a private, wooded 42-acre property outside Naples, Florida, caters to corporate events and is a home for a variety of rescued animals that cannot be reintroduced back to the wild. NGALA, which translates from Swahili to “Place of the Lion,” was founded by Donovan Smith nearly 20 years ago and is currently home to about 45 animals in addition to over 100 venomous reptiles introduced to the preserve by Smith’s “better half,” Khara Geders.

Meeting planners in the Meetings Today Market Trends Survey respond as to who they think 2019 will unfold in the meetings industry.

Meeting planners in the Meetings Today Market Trends Survey respond as to what trends they're seeing.

Meeting planners in the Meetings Today Market Trends Survey respond as to what F&B preferences and requirements they are seeing.