With virtual meetings supplanting face-to-face meetings in the COVID-19 era, meeting planners need to select speakers for their virtual events wisely. Joan Eisenstodt asked three speaker veterans what questions they should ask and criteria to consider when selecting a virtual speaker.

The coronavirus pandemic has amplified the unique challenges faced by association planners. How does this segment of the MICE industry move forward with live events in jeopardy?
 

Experts in the incentive travel industry weigh in on the status of incentive trips amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and offer predictions for how programs will look while the world waits for a vaccine.

Get your team feeling energized and cooking like a celebrity chef in under 60 minutes by enlisting the virtual cooking skills of chef Ryan DePersio. Read more.

Puerto Rico will reopen for in-bound tourism July 15, with thorough cleanliness measures in place island-wide that follow U.S. Travel Association (USTA) health and safety guidelines, along with locally enforced measures. Read more.

Beginning August 1, out-of-state travelers to Hawaii can avoid the state’s mandatory 14-day quarantine by taking a valid COVID-19 test.