Maritz CEO David Peckinpaugh on Industry Trends, From PCMA Convening Leaders

How are meetings and events faring as the worst of the pandemic seems to be in the past, and where are we headed as new headwinds confront the

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PCMA Goes Big: Association Announces Major Acquisitions

PCMA kicked off the first full day of 2023 Convening Leaders conference programming January 9 by

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Sherrif Karamat on stage at PCMA Convening Leaders 2023

The Driskill Taps Markus Puereschitz as General Manager

Historic hotel The Driskill appointed Markus Puereschitz as general manager, tasked with overseeing day-to-day operations at the legendary

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Markus Puereschitz, The Driskill. Credit: Jane Yun

6 Signature Event Venues in Greater Palm Springs

Greater Palm Springs, surrounded by four picturesque mountain ranges and stretching approximately 45 miles from Palm Springs proper to the city of

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Megan Henshall on Designing Inclusive Events and Attracting the Next Generation

Many event professionals found themselves in the position of rethinking how they design events after 2020 and the onset of the tumultuous COVID-19

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Megan Henshall at IMEX America

Now Playing: Los Angeles Meetings & Conventions

In Los Angeles, planners become producers, and your attendees have the starring roles. The mainstays and main characters are sunshine and scenery—two

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Contract Strategies for the Evolving Marketplace

Does your hotel contract address risk reduction and cost containment measures? Are you confident that you have a course of action to mitigate damages

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Event Food & Beverage: Advancing Access, Equity and Sustainability

As event professionals, you understand food and beverage's crucial role in creating exceptional experiences for attendees. But have you considered

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Food being prepared

Meeting and Event Risk and Contingency Planning: Recalculating What We Thought We Knew

In April 2023, Joan Eisenstodt guided us through a recalculation of site selection and how to determine what to consider rather than just “rates-

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The Strategy & ROI of Supplier Diversity

Examining how we do business in the meetings and events industry through the DEI lens is leading to increased awareness of how we design events,

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Site Selection & Inspection: Recalculating the Basics

If you drive or are a passenger in a car with a GPS, you have heard “recalculating” when the car goes in a not-expected direction. That's where we

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Deborah Gardner’s Speakers Resolutions for 2023

Editor’s note: This is the first installation of our new, semi-regular Supplier Side column, which gives a voice to meetings professionals who

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A Thoughtfully Planned Setting, Both Inside and Out 

Greater Ontario, California is where it’s happening. Not only has this area become the ultimate destination for meeting planners who prioritize an

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Greater Ontario Convention Center

4 Napa and Sonoma Wineries That Meeting Groups Will Savor

The Wine Country of Napa and Sonoma counties epitomizes the good life, in California and beyond. Give your groups a taste of this good life at the

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Fontainebleau Las Vegas Announces Key Appointments to Executive Team

Following the announcement that Fontainebleau Development and Koch Real Estate Investments, with J.P Morgan as administrative agent, had secured a

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Fontainebleau Las Vegas Exterior Rendering

Las Vegas Fontainebleau Secures $2.2B in Financing

Developers of Fontainebleau

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Rendering of Fontainebleau Las Vegas Pool District.

20 Holiday Cocktail Recipes From Your Favorite Hotels

A handful of hotels you love for meetings have graciously opened up their recipe books to gift our readers some truly fun, creative cocktails to make

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Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority Taps Bryan Miller as General Manager for the Charlotte Convention Center

Following its recent completion of a $126.9 million renovation, the Charlotte Convention Center, operated by the Charlotte Regional Visitors

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Bryan Miller

The Secret About Alabama as a Meetings Destination Is Getting Out

  Boasting some of the best, if unheralded, beaches in the U.S., as well as an aerospace industry that sent man to the moon and venues that

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Saturn Five rocket. Davidson Center for Space Exploration, Huntsville, Alabama.