Four culinary gurus shed light on group dining

What’s cooking on the North American culinary scene for groups? Sustainability and healthy options are here to stay, while traditional sit-down

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Changing attendee preferences are upending traditional approaches to room design, presentations and more

Say goodbye to the old classroom set-up where attendees listened dutifully for two hours in a windowless room while a speaker gave a presentation at

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Florida Keys

Don’t expect a little thing like an ocean to stop the fun in Florida. At land’s end in South Florida, where the Everglades makes its

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MPI Continues Global Growth at Its First WEC Event in Mexico

This year’s installment of the MPI World Education Congress (WEC) was a year of firsts. The event, which took place June 13-15, attracted nearly

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MPI President & CEO Paul Van Deventer

Changing attendee preferences upend tradition

Say goodbye to the old classroom set-up where attendees listened dutifully for two hours in a windowless room while a speaker gave a presentation at

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Sports venues loom large in West/Central Texas

Covering 267,000 square miles, the Lone Star State can seem infinite in places—especially when traveling across its vast western reaches.

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Citywides

Marketing conventions to build attendance has never been as important as it is now. Just ask your nearest event stakeholder. Fortunately, CVBs are

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Experts share useful site selection tips

When planning a meeting, chances are you have a phenomenal list of food and beverage, audiovisual and teambuilding ideas, but if you don’t

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Creativity knows no bounds at luxuriously artsy hotels

For hoteliers, few assets can match the versatility and impact of a thoughtfully conceived art program.Picture lobbies, common areas, guest rooms and

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Caesars Expands Baltimore Plans

By Chris Korman and Steve Kilar, Courtesy of The Baltimore Sun/McClatchy-Tribune Regional NewsCaesars Entertainment, which plans to bring a casino to

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Georgia’s outdoor adventures liven up the agenda

The Peach State is a veritable outdoor fun zone where planners can arrange gatherings under blue or starry skies, intriguing tours that can be either

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Pennsylvania’s sustainability efforts are a boon for groups

Sustainability has been a Keystone State hallmark practically since day one.Not long after founding Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in 1682, William

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Dancing with Gorillas

With many hotels more flexible at the bargaining table these days, are convention centers also taking a softer stance on negotiated contract terms?

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A Little Something More for Louisiana Meetings Groups

Louisiana is all about getting together to enjoy its unique culture and cuisine, from Cajun-style cookouts to one-of-a-kind music that is steeped in

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Lake Charles, Louisiana.

High Tech

Whether they’re installing futuristic boardrooms, virtual meeting suites, in-room Bluetooth entertainment centers, lobby Internet lounges or

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Rochester

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a trio of companies trading on vision technology incorporated in Rochester, N.Y. Since that time, the city has

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Executive Retreats

High-level executive meetings and retreats continue despite the state of the economy, albeit with less gilding and downtime, say planners and hotel

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Wyoming/Montana/Idaho

Your mission: to come up with a whole new way to get members of a group to bond, to take them out of the safety of their e-mail cocoons. An image

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Australia

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Philly/Valley Forge and Montgomery County offer diverse beverage scenes

As the story goes, William Penn, while a teetotaling Quaker, had a glass of ale at the Blue Anchor Tavern right upon his 1682 landing in Philadelphia

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