With the right tools, organizing a family-friendly meeting can significantly boost attendance. Want to give it a shot? Keep these tips in mind as you plan.

A coastal meeting offering beach activities, ocean views and waterfront venues can be a short drive or plane ride away from metropolitan hubs. Here are four beachfront destinations that provide an escape from busy city life—while still being easily accessible from larger cities nearby.

Create buzz around your event with the help of high-profile speakers without sacrificing your event’s theme and design with these tips from meeting professionals and speakers.

The backdrops to some of Hollywood’s most famous movies can double as the site of your next event. From Iron Man and The Shining to Shawshank Redemption, read on for nine famous movie filming locations you can host an event at in real life.

A new generation of incentive travel award-winners is demanding programs that effect change in the form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Here’s how leaders in the incentives industry are incorporating CSR into their events.

Hilton Hotels & Resorts and Marriott International are engaged in ongoing lawsuits about resort fees and “drip pricing.” Here’s what meeting and event planners need to know to negotiate around these charges as part of their RFP response process. Read more.

Looking for sustainability options at your next meeting? Cities like Salt Lake City, Detroit, Nashville and New Orleans make it easy to go green in 2019 with environmentally friendly venue renovations and innovative initiatives.

These 20 Meetings Today Trendsetters, hand-selected by our editors, continue to drive our industry forward. They all demonstrate dedication to the concept that when we meet, we ignite the possibility of effecting change on a global scale.

Offer more engaging and immersive meetings experiences with six tips from the PCMA Foundation and Steelcase Event Experiences. Their robust report includes attendee feedback captured via live interviews at PCMA Convening Leaders 2019.

Summer is a wonderful time to add refreshing, relaxing and whimsical touches to events inspired by the season. Lululemon’s Deb Gee shares some of her favorite tips to design creative and engaging summer-themed events.