Pivot Hotels and Resort debuted BEI San Francisco, formerly the Holiday Inn San Francisco-Civic Center. The top-to-bottom $30 million renovation to the Mid-Market neighborhood property will be revealed this spring. BEI San Francisco offers 396 guest rooms, and will soon offer two dining options and 10,000 square feet of co-working, meeting and event space.

Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center opened its doors as the largest combined resort and convention center in Colorado. The resort is the fifth Gaylord Hotels property in the U.S., under the Marriott International umbrella. It is located about 10 minutes from Denver International Airport.

Now America’s 15th largest metropolis, the “City of Cowboys and Culture” keeps expanding. And arts are a central part of Fort Worth's boom.

Meetings Today Senior Contributor Jeff Heilman highlights five Dallas-Fort Worth cultural off-site event venues that include NorthPark Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, Billy Bob's Texas, The Ranch at Las Colinas, DFW Heli-Tours and Southfork Ranch.

AT&T Stadium in Dallas and The Star in Frisco are distinguished by a singular assembly of private art. Guided by an advisory council comprised of leading members of the Dallas-Fort Worth art community, Gene Jones established the Dallas Cowboys Art Collection. Her drive began by commissioning monumental works specifically for the stadium. Notable installations include Win! from Mel Bochner, featuring football-centric exclamations, and outside, the $13 million Sky Mirror, a 35-foot-diameter concave mirror from artist Anish Kapoor.

Staff Writer Sarah Kloepple talks with Becky Andrzejak, exhibit and events manager for Johnson Controls, at AHR Expo in Atlanta about why her company's two-story exhibit booth, also referred to as a double-deck booth, provides some serious competitive advantages on the tradeshow floor.

Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa, located only 20 minutes from downtown San Antonio, debuted its Rodeo Olympics for groups in collaboration with Goen South Events. Through the teambuilding program, attendees can take part in a variety of Texas-themed activities and a few others they might not associate with Texas, including roping exercises with calf replicas, stick “horse” races, cow chip toss competitions, and even armadillo races.

Doing good on a grand scale is all in a day’s work for Richard McNary, who heads up the meetings industry effort for The Outreach Program, a nonprofit organization that enlists meetings delegates, among others, for CSR teambuilding activities that create meals for the needy on an industrial scale.

While women have an outsized representation in the hospitality industry—especially in the role of meeting planners—the number of females in upper management and c-suite roles continues to lag behind those of men. Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League, is a hotel, CVB and meetings industry veteran who took a hammer to the glass ceiling years ago.