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From rooftop bars to pub crawls, pool-side happy hours to club nights, alcohol has always played an outsized role in travel, especially for young people.

Nearly unheard of only a few years ago, more and more companies are starting to organize in-flight events for potential clients.

Which technology trends will have a significant impact on corporate travel over the next year?

IBM, Vox, Staples, and others have cracked the code on designing meaningful meetings. Get inspired by our picks for the smartest meetings, conferences, trade shows, and other business events.

Get ready for next year with this look at the top trends and challenges that are set to affect the meetings and events industry in 2020.

Many associations do not have a strategic plan for their events, according to a survey of more than 100 association leaders and decision-makers conducted by general service contracting company T3 Expo. This finding and more were revealed and discussed at length at the company’s 2ndAnnual Executive Leadership Forum, held Oct.

Events and corporate travel go hand in hand. When a large conference takes place, masses of business travelers will be racking up their airline miles, Events and corporate travel go hand in hand.

The corporate travel and meetings industry wants to give business travel a wellness makeover. Biz travelers want to keep up wellness routines while away.

MeetingsNet’s 13th annual list of the largest independent meeting and incentive companies focused on the U.S. corporate market

This project collected, analysed and synthesised the findings of all prior Joint Meetings Industry Council Case Studies to deliver a verdict on the broader contributions that conferences, congresses, trade shows, convention centres and bureaux deliver to destinations, communities, industries and economies.

The four companies have invested a combined $50 million in Groups360, which owns the GroupSync booking platform. Here’s what meeting planners can expect.

With the explosive growth happening in digital technology, it has become easy to track the behavior of event attendees in a way never possible before.

Progressive tourism leaders are thinking ten or more years into the future to create a more holistic, sustainable vision for the visitor and resident experience.

Even as event tech grows, receiving unprecedented funding over the past two years, some parts of the meetings industry are facing a slowdown. Even as event tech grows, receiving unprecedented funding over the past two years, some parts of the meetings industry are facing a slowdown.

Even as event tech grows, receiving unprecedented funding over the past two years, some parts of the meetings industry are facing a slowdown. Even as event tech grows, receiving unprecedented funding over the past two years, some parts of the meetings industry are facing a slowdown.

Get ready for next year with this look at the top trends and challenges that are set to affect the meetings and events industry in 2020.

The sudden closure of the Mexico Tourism Board in February dismayed many in the country's meetings industry, striking a blow to both leisure and biz travel.

The key function of product launches is not actually to launch products.

Strong investment and tech advancements have set the lucrative events sector up for a strong future.

An economic impact study by ProColombia and the Mexican firm STA Consultores revealed that the meetings industry brought US $2.4 Billion to Colombian economy, equaling 22.8% of tourism’s total spillover in Colombia. In addition, this figure represented a 0.43% share of Colombia’s gross domestic product.  Total profit generated by this industry is distributed across many layers of the population, since over 60% of spending was made in non-tourism related sectors, such as exhibit production, translation, decoration, or facility rentals.

Across the globe, travel providers and government agencies are responding to ‘overtourism’ with suggestions for less-crowded places and quieter seasons.

Barcelona has transformed from overlooked to overcrowded in a few decades, but the Catalan capital is now ready for its latest act. There is no hotel that