MeetingsNet – September/October 2023Cover Story — Top Planning Companies: CMI 25 2023 Stats, news, and more in our profiles of the top independent meeting-planning companies doing business with the ...

How to Plan a Zero Waste Event: A Primer 1. Choose a venue that understands your needs. Begin by selecting a venue that already practices sustainability or is open to collaborating on your event’s ...

As a group, the organizations on this year’s CMI 25 list executed nearly 150,000 corporate meetings and more than 1,400 incentive-travel programs. In total, those events used more than 7 million room ...

As the growing interest in workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion expands, meeting professionals are considering how events can be more inclusive for neurodiverse attendees, including those with ...

of the event or those attending the show for the first time. The researchers also found variations by industry. Food and restaurant conferences are one example of a late-registering sector, with 54 ...

Raffles Hotels & Resorts, the luxury AccorHotels brand, will open its first U.S. property in Boston in 2022. The $400 million Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences is under construction on Stuart ...

Khris Baizen Senior Director of Production Sales Encore “I’ve embraced a mindset where change is not a one-time occurrence but a continuous cycle of improvement.” Read Baizen’s change story. Jennifer ...

On Houston’s south side, a life-sciences research complex for Texas Medical Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M Health, and UT Health Houston is set to open in Q4 2023 under the name TMC ...

With its topping-out ceremony set for mid-July, the newest hospitality addition to the Shreveport-Bossier City area is on track to debut in Q1 2025. Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana will be a 545-room ...

When Hilton announced its business-events-focused Signia brand in 2019, the company stated that “with a minimum of 500 guest rooms and 75 square feet per key of flexible meetings and events space, ...

• Image Audiovisuals, the on-site audiovisual provider at the Colorado Convention Center, unveiled a virtual platform that replicates part of that facility for use in hybrid and virtual events. The ...

In her 12 years at event-technology firm Cvent, Allyson Keenan has risen from marketing intern to event planner to event-operations manager and event technologist. So, she has a broad and clear ...