Using your organization and event planning skills will enable you to start a corporate-meeting planner service. Long gone are the days of boring boardroom meetings for middle managers, executives, ...

Meeting planner veteran Laura Gieseking has the unique opportunity of helping organize a major event that will attract industry members to the Twin Cities from around the world. Gieseking, who ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Preferred Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest independent hotel brand, is pleased to announce the relaunch of its Meeting Planner website, designed to ...

Sara Stark Mikolich has been a project manager in the meeting and event planning industry for more than 15 years and during that time has founded two separate companies. Mikolich formed her current ...

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I recently had the privilege to be involved in a meeting planner’s conference with a mix of agencies and in-house corporate planners to discuss the business of getting back to in-person meetings. Part ...

The new term revenge travel really speaks to those ready to get out at all costs. After years of limited options, seminar junkies and networking addicts everywhere are ready to meet up. Whether it’s ...

This story was originally published on Hotel Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Hotel Dive newsletter. The 2025 State of the Meetings Industry report, released by ...

Tight budgets, competition, needy clients, last-minute requests, and unresponsive venues rise to the top of the list of challenges planners need to tackle in 2019. They anticipate tougher times next ...