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Consider travel spots that allow you to create  personalized, unique and immersive experiences for your group.

It's time to rethink the role of the Destination Management Organization. With travelers being more emotionally invested in the destinations they visit, there are opportunities to adopt a more visionary, collaborative and proactive approach that can drive transformative change in your destination's tourism industry.

Event planners are on high alert for juice-jacking, a type of cyber attack where hackers use USB charging ports to steal personal information.

Recent EMEA survey results highlight the business events industry’s challenges and priorities for 2023/2024.

We’ve now entered a two-track phase where remote work runs in parallel with a revitalized and revamped corporate travel universe.

An Omnipress survey shows meeting pros are sticking with hybrid and virtual formats, while working to get more attendees to in-person events.

According to the just-released Freeman Trends Report, in-person events are the most trustworthy source of information, more so than academic institutions There has been a seismic shift in those attending events, according to a Freeman study for the first quarter of 2023.

The agency is witnessing hotel bookings recover faster than flights when it comes to business trip bookings.

New CEIR research examines effective marketing strategies for attendee acquisition at B2B exhibitions.

Company spending on co-working spaces is on the up, while business travel is declining, according to corporate card and expense firm Ramp.

The global MICE industry is expected to grow tremendously by 2028, primarily due to the strategic alliances between key market players. Moreover

As the new year began, meeting planner optimism continued to soar.

It’s time for planners to catch up with the current event technology and smart badges are a product on the rise.

The Events Industry Council’s CMP Advance, a conference built by CMPs for CMPs, gathered 225 high-level meeting professionals in New York.

Convene editors gathered ideas and insights about the metaverse from a variety of sources — an academic, a metaverse event organizer, a convention & visitors bureau, event tech CEOs, and even ChatGPT.

American Airlines appears to be seeing a flattening of travel demand this summer after last year's torrid growth.

Luxury leather and travel goods brand Carl Friedrik has analyzed Euromonitor’s top 100 city destinations to reveal the best bleisure cities in the world. Usin | Analysis by Carl Friedrik reveals the best luxury bleisure cities for those looking to make the most of business leisure working in style. See more here.

The White Lotus offers cautionary lessons on event planning and hospitality as each season takes viewers on a surreal vacation in a different exotic setting.

Meetings have returned as people come together for face-to-face engagement and connection, but challenges persist.

A new IRF report points to the increasing importance of incentives in today's economy, the need for more creativity in programs and more.

International inbound travelers spent nearly $163 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services in 2022, up 96 percent from 2021, International inbound travelers spent nearly $162.6 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services in 2022, up 96 percent from 2021, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office’s latest data. On average, international travelers spent more than $445 million a day in 2022.

Atlanta-based event tech company InEvent announced a new integration with Open AI’s popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. The

Optimism reigned in 2022, as in-person meetings and events again took their place as the preferred method to network and learn. While hybrid and virtual meetings serve their own purpose, everyone agrees that nothing can replace face-to-face gatherings.