IBTM Debuts First Report on American Planners' Buying Habits

The IBTM’s global meetings industry research arm presented its first report on the Americas June 20 at AIBTM in Baltimore, with highlights

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Experts Have a Bullish Outlook for 2025 Corporate Meetings

The corporate meetings segment has experienced an upheaval in the last five years due to the massively disruptive shift to remote work—perhaps a

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Centers revamp to provide more innovative social and tech connectivity

Addressing profound changes in how their customers are approaching learning, training, networking and teambuilding, many conference centers are in a

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The Future is Now

The International Association of Conference Centers (IACC)-The Americas held its fourth Thought Leader Summit at the 31st annual conference in

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Conference centers revamp to provide connectivity

Addressing profound changes in how their customers are approaching learning, training, networking and teambuilding, many conference centers are in a

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Meeting Expectations

Meetings Mean Business Coalition, U.S. Travel Association's meetings advocacy initiative, partnered earlier this year with Skift, a travel industry

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New legislation rocks government meetings

U.S. Senate and House members meet regularly in chambers, committee rooms and restaurants all over The Hill and back in their districts, and there’s

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How Suite It Is

As if Scottsdale, Ariz.’s The Phoenician was not luxurious enough, the massive AAA Five Diamond resort, set on 250 acres at the foot of

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A Focus on Safety

In the past few years, jarring pictures flashing from across the globe seem to appear with more frequent regularity. There was the massively

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Convention center tradeshows focus on interaction

Convention center tradeshows are still going strong in this digital age, but the success of these face-to-face affairs may come down to one key query

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Hybrid Meetings Webinar Coming Up

ST. LOUIS, Mo. International Association of Conference Centers announced it will present a webinar on December 8 on hybrid meetings, one of the

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The Rules of Engagement

Convention center tradeshows are still going strong in this digital age, but the success of these face-to-face affairs may come down to one key query

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PSAV Enters the Event App Arena

PSAV, an industry heavyweight in audiovisual and event technology services, is expanding its

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Interstate Hotels Announces INTRIGUE Brand

Interstate Hotels & Resorts announced its new lifestyle management division,

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Evolution of Meetings: In-Person Connections Are Back, and Here to Stay

The old adage of “the more things change, the more things stay the same” applies to a handful of industries, and the meeting/event planning business

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Cvent Closes QuickMobile Acquisition

Meetings hospitality tech giant Cvent closed its acquisition of mobile

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Nevada Holds on Via Stable Convention Traffic During Rough Year

Steadily regaining altitude since recording 42.5 million visitors in 2019, Las Vegas welcomed 41.7 million leisure and business arrivals last year to

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RFP and Contract Language to Keep Your AV Options Open

If not careful, meeting planners can lose their freedom to choose their AV provider as soon as they sign a venue contract. And with

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Talking Tech - West February 2010

We are thrilled and honored to begin writing the "Talking Tech" column for Meetings Media—"long-time readers, first-time writers," at

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Talking Tech - MidAmerica Jan/Feb 2010

We are thrilled and honored to begin writing the "Talking Tech" column for Meetings Media—"long-time readers, first-time writers," at least on

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