Meetings Today reached out to a variety of meetings and hospitality leaders to get their take on whether there is an industry brain drain, and how to ensure the talent pipeline keeps flowing.
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.
In this Meetings Today Podcast, recorded at PCMA’s Convening Leaders, EIC CEO Amy Calvert tackles the subject of the hospitality industry talent pipeline, as well as a major revamp of the EIC’s CMP program.
PCMA Convening Leaders has posted respectable attendance numbers at its Convening Leaders conference, held January 9-12 at CAESARS FORUM in Las Vegas. The industry event required all in-person attendees to prove their vaccination status.
IMEX Frankfurt, one of largest annual meetings and events industry exhibitions in the world, announced it will postpone its 2022 event due to the spread of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus.
MPI postponed its European Meetings and Events Conference (EMEC) in Brighton, U.K., to an unspecified later date in the wake of the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
PCMA President & CEO Sherrif Karamat emphasized the meetings industry trade association’s annual Convening Leaders event, scheduled for January 9-12 in Las Vegas, will still be held in-person despite the surge in COVID-19 cases in the wake of the Omicron variant.
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic—the last major IMEX exhibition of any type was held in 2019—IMEX America 2021 filled attendees with the warm fuzzies as it lit up the Las Vegas Strip with thousands of stories of industry relationships rekindled.
