Event Service Professionals Association published a free downloadable guide, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a Guide for Event Service Professionals, that provides actionable insights for meetings professionals to help ensure DEI at their events.
As we move through 2023 with the mindset of making meetings and events industry trends a long-term reality, Alicia Jenelle, a multi-hyphenate professional and international experiential design expert from Toronto, shares how to push the DEIB conversation one step forward.
When faced with adversity, what mindset do you deploy? Sonia Fong, senior vice president of convention development at Louisville Tourism, shares her experience and perspective on leading by example, practicing gratitude and building resilience.
Podcast sponsored by Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
Meetings Today touched base with two leading DEI proponents, Greg DeShields, executive director of Tourism Diversity Matters, and Sheila Alexander-Reid, executive director diversity for PHL Diversity (a division of the Philadelphia CVB) to get their take on successes as well as the challenges ahead.
California is taking a leading role in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in the tourism and meetings and events industries. Here are three Golden State tourism and education leaders who are blazing the way to a more equitable future for all.
John G. Reyes, senior vice president and chief MCI sales officer for Meet Hawai‘i, shares how Hawai'i's tourism community has come together to honor the true spirit of aloha and communicate the responsibility for visitors to give back to a people and culture that has given so much of itself in welcoming them.
Birmingham, Alabama, a city central to the Civil Rights Movement, offers both history as well as a growing cuisine scene to draw meetings and conventions groups to “The Magic City.”
Lisa Messina, chief sales officer at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, shares her experience and perspective on workplace bullying, choosing to be zealous over jealous, and finding the courage to get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.
Podcast sponsored by Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
Denise Reid, new president of Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA), shares how event service professionals are often on the front line of ensuring destination DEI for meetings and events, as well as her plans for ramping up the association following the pandemic upheaval, and also favors listeners with an amazing rendition of Ave Maria!
