Given today’s increasingly complex and turbulent world, it’s little wonder if site selection has also grown increasingly complex. It’s a multi-faceted process in which concerns over safety, technology, attendee engagement, ethics and rising costs can all come into play.

If you think robots take the personal touch out of an interaction, think again. Hotel robots are popping up left and right, and Interstate Hotels and Resorts is eliciting quite the warm and fuzzy reactions when making special deliveries with this latest technology.

The City of Arlington announced plans for Esports Stadium Arlington, an esports-specific venue designed to draw competitive gamers and fans from around the world. The proposed venue will be built within the existing Arlington Convention Center in collaboration with architecture firm Populous.

Omni Hotels & Resorts CMO and Senior Vice President of Sales Peter Strebel has been promoted to the position of president of the Dallas-based chain. Strebel is a 30-year hospitality industry veteran with 20 years of experience at Omni.

There has been much discussion and research on the Millennial generation. But who exactly is a Millennial? What about Gen Xers? And what will be the official moniker for the Post-Millennials?

InterContinental Hotels Group is buying Regent Hotels and Resorts and reestablishing the iconic Regent brand in Hong Kong.

Brad Dean has been appointed as CEO of the newly established Puerto Rico Destination Marketing Organization.

Forty-four-year meetings and hospitality industry veteran David Bruce, managing partner of the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas-area meeting planning and association management company CMP Meeting Services, knows and cares enough about his profession that he realizes it’s time for a big change.

This year’s deadly flu stories may have faded from the headlines, but spread of the flu is still a concern throughout most of the country.

Tilman J. Fertitta's ultra-luxe Post Oak Hotel at Uptown opened in Houston.