The West Coast large-meetings scene is set for a game-changing disruption in May 15 when Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center is scheduled to open its doors just south of San Diego.

A world of unique venues is within minutes of convention centers in Atlanta and Savannah for planners on the hunt for space for special events in their programs that need a little extra wow.

Meeting and event planners have a long list of convention-center must-haves. The Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City, Maryland, has them all and more.

Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center conducted a massive, full-scale security exercise that enlisted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Orange County Fire Rescue and Orange County Sheriff’s Office to put its emergency response plans to the test.

Convention centers are created to make money and provide recognition for their host cities. Once in place, however, they can become agents of change for the better. Here’s how major convention centers in the Pacific Northwest do it.

With a prime location between Los Angeles and Palm Springs, the GOCAL region is primed to bump it up a notch with a massive expansion of the Ontario Convention Center.

Joyce Leveston will assume the role of CEO of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York on March 10.

The new five-story, 45,000-square-foot Coastal Convention Center-connected Fontainebleau Miami Beach is set to expand meeting and convention offerings in South Florida.

Event service professionals can help simplify the meeting and event planning process and make it smoother. Here are some proven strategies to help make it happen.

Count women among the chief designers, architects and builders of Texas’s multibillion-dollar meetings and events industry. Here are six leaders talking about what it takes to get the job done.