Experts in the incentive travel industry weigh in on the status of incentive trips amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and offer predictions for how programs will look while the world waits for a vaccine.

Get your team feeling energized and cooking like a celebrity chef in under 60 minutes by enlisting the virtual cooking skills of chef Ryan DePersio. Read more.

Puerto Rico will reopen for in-bound tourism July 15, with thorough cleanliness measures in place island-wide that follow U.S. Travel Association (USTA) health and safety guidelines, along with locally enforced measures. Read more.

Beginning August 1, out-of-state travelers to Hawaii can avoid the state’s mandatory 14-day quarantine by taking a valid COVID-19 test.

The portfolio of Gaylord Hotels from Marriott International announced that four of its five properties are now open. What will the meeting and convention spaces look like? 
 

Meeting and event planners polled by Meetings Today as part of its new monthly MeetingsTALK survey found that 35% indicated they will be ready to resume face-to-face meetings of 100 attendees or more in the first and second quarters of 2021. Read more.

The luxury hotel chain has launched the Well-Meeting program at its five properties, where the focus will be on health, safety and open-air venues.

With 30 years of tourism and hospitality experience, Larry Sieg takes the top slot at Meet AC following Jim Wood’s departure at the end of 2019. 

How will sustainable practices be impacted once physical events begin again? Leading sustainable events expert Nancy Zavada of MeetGreen breaks it down in an easy-to-reference infographic. Read more.