The Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA) is now accepting nominations from meeting and event planners for its Event Service Professional of the Year Award.

According to a robust new survey from Maritz, late event registration translates into more ancillary meetings spend by attendees. Discover where this sweet spot between heartburn and revenue generation is.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, aka Pennsylvania Dutch Country, has partnered with Southern Airways to fly qualified planners for free roundtrip from Pittsburgh or Washington, D.C., for site inspections.

Event service professionals, who work at a hotel venue, convention center or CVB/DMO, may work quietly behind the scenes, but they can dramatically impact the outcome of an event. Here are examples of how their free services have paid off for meeting planners.

Event service professionals now offer an updated value proposition for meeting planners, as they will play a key role in the return to in-person meetings in an uncertain environment. Event service leader Paola Bowman makes her case for the important role her colleagues will play.

As meetings and events prepare for an in-person reboot, event service professionals can provide crucial tools to meeting planners operating in a changed environment.

There’s a lot to consider when the majority of your attendees are traveling by car to your meeting. Use these 10 tips to plan a successful drive-to meeting or event. Read more.

In her 36 years supervising convention services for the Philadelphia CVB, Philomena Petro, who retired at the end of December 2019, has seen that position grow exponentially in importance to bureaus. Discover key trends impacting the meetings industry from the convention services perspective. Read more.

The advantages of taking a meeting that is traditionally held in the U.S. across the border to Canada are many, from a currently favorable exchange rate to a division within the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) that is primed to make the transportation of materials go as smoothly as possible. Learn how to take advantage of the system.