After four name changes and five expansions, the Chelsea Hotel, which opened in October 1975 as a mixed residential and university housing building with 808 rooms, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year as the largest hotel in Canada, with 1,590 keys. 

Destination Toronto’s new “Toronto 100%” video campaign is an unapologetic statement of boldness and big dreams that invites visitors, planners and groups included, to go all in with Toronto’s ambition and creativity.

From football to recycled guitar strings, from pancakes to potato gnocchi, Nashville is not just for country music fans. On a recent fam, Meetings Today contributing writer Gary Singh discovered so much more.

With so much development and major meetings continuing to choose Florida, there’s much to learn from the state’s top DMO executives. Here are their thoughts on trends and the state of the industry.

Meetings and events will benefit big time from recent major investments in properties and experiences in Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast.

IMEX Frankfurt 2025 took place May 20-22 in Frankfurt, Germany, setting exhibitor floor space records, increasing one-to-one meetings from the previous year and pulling in thousands of meeting and event professionals from around the world.  

Accor’s new meeting booking platform is part of a larger trend from Accor and other hotel companies that are developing tools to assist meeting planners in day-to-day mundanities.

Formerly with destination marketing organizations for Puerto Rico and Myrtle Beach, the new head of Explore St. Louis sets his sights on growing meetings business in America’s heartland.

These three resorts in Los Cabos, Mexico, are readymade for luxurious incentive travel programs. Plus, Los Cabos Tourism Board Managing Director Rodrigo Esponda Cascajares shares three reasons why Los Cabos stands out as an incentive travel destination.

From barbecue museums to the history of blues and salutes to veterans, there are a variety of cultural institutions in Missouri’s key meeting locales that can cater to meeting groups, whether it be for a buyout, group visit or post-meetings fun.