Cost-Savings Strategies: From Cuts to Creativity

Budgets are tightening but expectations are higher than ever. With hotel rates, fees and surcharges on the rise, meeting professionals are under

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Incorporating Experiential F&B Teambuilding Programs Into Your Meetings The IACC Way

IACC’s tips for incorporating experiential teambuilding programs in your meetings and events.

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4 Ways to Accommodate Attendees With Disabilities at Events

Having your event accessible to people with disabilities is more important than most truly realize. One in four adults in the U.S. have some form of

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Incorporating Experiential F&B Teambuilding Programs Into Your Meetings The IACC Way

IACC’s tips for incorporating experiential teambuilding programs in your meetings and events.

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F&B Strategies

As a veteran meeting planner, many of my colleagues ask me for tips about saving on F&B costs—often the second-largest budget item in a meeting.

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Affordable Yet Creative F&B Tips, One Meal At a Time

Whether your dining event is slated for breakfast, lunch or dinner, each mealtime serves up its own set of challenges for planners. Pleasing palates

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Tips from international planners on cultural considerations for attendees

Here are a few tips from planners on cross-cultural attendee considerations they’ve run into across the continents.Heather Coplestone,

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Tips and Tricks for Combating Jet Lag and Business Travel Fatigue

The team behind Dr. Michael Breus, Ph.D., founder of TheSleepDoctor.com, recently released

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SMERF Meetings

More CoverageConference Centers and SMERFThe

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Talking Tech

Our first use of Microsoft Outlook was in 1997, when we discovered it wrapped in relative obscurity within the release of Office 97. We were all

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Add Pizzazz to Your Panel

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Add Pizzazz to Your Panel

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The Wisconsin Dells offers wine, woods and song

As the growing economy drives up the cost and bookings in larger cities, planners are rediscovering Wisconsin Dells.“In the last 18 months,

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Golf experts talk group tips and trends

New superstars like Millennials Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy have emerged on the golf landscape, and there’s also a refreshing attitude these

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12 Ways to Prevent Luggage Theft and Minimize Hassles If It Happens

[Editor's note: This story has been updated from a previous version from 2018.] It’s that sinking feeling in your stomach when you can’t

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Three acclaimed chefs talk tips and trends

A great meal is just the thing to break up a long day of meetings—or cap a successful event. Having a recognized, well-regarded chef prepare

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Government Shutdown Would Cost U.S. Travel Economy $140 Million Per Day

*Editors Note: This story has been updated from its initial version published on September 29, 2023 to include more accurate and up-to-date

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Wine Country Planning Tips

While Napa and Sonoma, like other popular meeting destinations these days, are enjoying a hotel seller’s market, there are strategies that

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Relocating: Job Search Tips

Moving to another city or town? Building a new network from scratch is tough, especially when you are trying to adapt to new surroundings. The best

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Why You Should Offer Mocktail Drink Options at Your Next Event

Attendees are drinking less than ever before, and with Gen Z overtaking Baby Boomers in the workforce in late 2023, meeting and event planners need

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