Meetings Today Contributor Jennifer Juergens sits down with Craig Schoninger, director of marketing at northeast Florida’s Ponte Vedra Inn & Club and The Lodge & Club, to discuss the fascinating history of the property and why its status as an independent, family-owned hotel translates into high levels of service and the flexibility to offer 10 percent commissions.

As Executive Sous Chef at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, Matthew Gale interacts with planners on a regular basis. Meetings Today caught up with the chef to see what the resort can offer groups.

Although already incredibly popular destinations for meeting planners, the 39 cities and towns that make up South Florida’s Palm Beach County are pumping up the volume with a variety of new and improved facilities and attractions. Coupled with the activity-packed, rustic beach towns of Treasure Coast and the impressive Palm Beach County Convention Center, the area is a dreamland for meetings, events, conventions and tradeshows.

How to get your groups immersed in Florida’s endless aquatic offerings.

The amount of food and water wasted at meetings and events is staggering, to say the least. Here's how Florida meeting planners and facilities are doing more.

A continuous stream of new developments, picture-perfect weather and a prolific amount of convention space and meetings hotels make Florida one of the most popular places to congregate in the world.

Want to make sure your meeting hits a home run? Consider Florida, where an unusually high number of high-end sports venues promise world-class facilities and the views and action that smack events out of the park.

Florida’s rooftop bars let attendees drink in the view.

Florida hotels and meeting facilities are on a building spree