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.

Few are aware of the idyllic stretch of land between San Francisco and San Jose dubbed The San Francisco Peninsula. Once you’re in on the secret, though, it’s hard to imagine you didn’t know about sooner.

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.

The Monterey Bay destinations of Santa Cruz and Monterey are the epitome of easy-going California abundance for meeting and events groups.

The partners and developments that make Arizona a great place to meet in the coming year. 

Chef Michael Chang, who owns Carmel-by-the-Sea’s Foray restaurant with his sommelier wife Caroline Singer, also is a competitive truffle hunter with their Lagatto Romagnolo dog, Falco.

While hospitality industry job growth remains a challenge, Las Vegas is excelling in diversifying its visitor base via welcoming epic sporting events and tapping into the bigger spend those customers bring to the Entertainment Capital of the World.

 In this Q&A with Meetings Today senior contributor Jeff Heilman, Larragueta shares his outlook and plans for a thriving Northern Nevada group market.  

The Andaz West Hollywood, which will forever live in infamy as the former Sunset Strip rocker haunt the Continental Hyatt House—aka “The Riot House”—is once again living the rock ’n’ roll fantasy by acknowledging, if not celebrating, its storied history that will forever live in lore.