The skills needed for success as a meeting planner are quickly becoming core elements in the colleges and universities that are building the next generation of meeting professionals. Here is what meeting planners in the future will need to know, from the perspective of five leading professors of meetings and hospitality programs.
Introducing the 2021 Meetings Today Excellence Awards winners, representing meetings and events industry suppliers who helped their colleagues and the industry through charitable acts and sharing expert research in the last year.
The path forward if often paved by lessons learned from difficult experiences. Here’s some of the meeting industry’s biggest takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it can emerge stronger than before.
Organizations valuing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have increasingly addressed demands to respond with a zero-tolerance policy toward racial injustice, workplace inequities and discriminatory legislation.
Four female Marriott International general managers mark International Women's Day 2021 by reflecting on their hospitality industry careers and giving advice for women stepping up the career ladder.
In the video, which premiered at Destination International’s 2020 Annual Convention, Black executives from destination marketing organizations around the country share their experiences with racism in their lives and in the tourism industry.
