The resorts and incentive travel industries continue to adapt to post-pandemic changes as meetings and events attendee standards and expectations shift.

Incentives columnist Ashley Lawson explains how to utilize local culture and communities to improve sales and marketing strategies within the meetings and incentives market through leveraging cultural advantages.

Our columnist Ashley Lawson shares tips to being more culturally sensitive and respectful while infusing local culture into meetings and events, all while experiencing what new destinations have to offer.

MPI’s top revenue rainmaker, Bernie Schraer, shares 10 areas and tips on how you can procure event sponsorships

DEI acts as a microscope to ensure that the business case for diversity is not about measuring the value of people but the value all of the people their business goals will impact. Here are eight key objectives to help assist with the alignment of a DEI strategy with your business needs.

When ESPA held its first in-person, annual conference in two years this past January, it used best practices to produce a safe event that meeting planners can utilize for their events.

After a two-year in-person hiatus, Event Service Professionals Association finally got back together in person in Kansas City. Here’s how these convention services professionals took care of business regarding health and safety protocols, and what you can learn from the successful experience.

Meetings and events F&B expert Tracy Stuckrath shares her take on what she learned while interviewing top culinary experts for her Eating at a Meeting Podcast.

Hybrid meetings feature a lot of expensive moving parts, and thus require a planning process that in some cases is more complicated than a traditional in-person event. Here are some key questions planners should ask themselves and share with their AV partner, courtesy of Rental & Staging Network.

Meetings industry veteran Joan Eisenstodt shares her must-know contract tips as meetings and events consider going in-person again.