Anaheim’s meetings, conventions and events business is on a roll that promises to get more “golden” in the next decade as a truly epic number of marquee events and facilities are unveiled in a destination that already boasts the largest convention center on the West Coast.

Visit San Antonio elevated its interim president and CEO to permanently lead the Texas tourism powerhouse’s DMO.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and San Francisco Travel Association chief Mary Anne Presutti told a crowd of 350 top association planners at a Marriott event to “Believe in San Francisco.”

A more than 20-year San Francisco hotel sales veteran, and the first female San Francisco CVB chief in its 115-year history, Anna Marie Presutti just may be the right woman for the job of bringing San Francisco back.

Destinations International (DI) is offering a new business intelligence certificate program to help destination professionals develop practical, skill-based trainings to excel in business events.

Visit Atlantic City and DO AC are integrating their brands and assets under the unified Visit Atlantic City name. The move combines the brands responsible for marketing leisure travel and business travel. 

Veteran DMO leader Al Hutchinson has decided not to renew his contract with Visit Baltimore, which expires June 30.

Destinations International is launching a new online training program for destination organization sales and services professionals designed to help them better collaborate with meeting and event planners.

On December 18, 1964, seven Swiss destinations gathered at Hotel Bristol Bern in Bern, Switzerland, to form the world’s first national convention bureau, and the “Interest Group of Swiss Congress Cities” was born.

Destinations across Maryland have created a new Meet in Maryland initiative (MIM), which serves as a catalyst to jumpstart interest in Maryland as a meetings destination.