Virtual events might avoid costs around hotel rooms, F&B, and travel, but using technology platforms, recording speakers, and editing presentations still require a significant investment. Here’s a ...

Welcome to MeetingsNet’s 2024 CMI 25 list, a select directory of the biggest independent meeting-planning companies working with the U.S. corporate market. To compile the list, MeetingsNet compares ...

Stats, news, and more in our profiles of the top independent meeting-planning companies doing business with the corporate market in North America On Tap: Whiplash, By the Numbers — New data ...

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 ...

Part 1 of our series on planning hybrid events. To read the rest of the series and our hybrid design case studies, click the links at the end of this article. Here’s a fun exercise. In your mind, go ...

Earlier this year, Las Vegas Sands Corp., which owns large resorts in Macau, Singapore, and elsewhere, announced it had sold its Las Vegas real property and operations—including The Venetian Resort ...

If your 2025 meeting budgets aren’t at least 4.3 percent over what you spent this year, there’s a good chance you’ll find yourself in the hole. That’s upshot of the meetings and events cost forecast ...

Every organization’s plans and priorities for the return to meetings and travel are unique, but, in aggregate, pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies are leaning toward meeting again in the second ...

Here’s some good news: Fully 45 percent of responding healthcare professionals said they registered for a medical congress in 2020 specifically because it was offered online and they would not have ...

While plans for a hotel connected to the Miami Beach Convention Center have been on the drawing board for nearly 10 years, it appears that one last financial hurdle has been cleared so that the hotel ...

On Thursday, April 8, Global Meetings Industry Day featured several in-person and virtual events that highlighted the importance of the meeting, incentive, convention, and trade-show industry, while ...

Let’s start with this statistic: On average in 2023, 45 percent of conference attendees delayed registering until four weeks or less before an event. That’s among the eye-popping findings in a new ...