ASAE’s Annual Meeting & Exposition, held August 18-21 at Chicago’s McCormick Convention Center, set an attendance record for the association of associations as well as featured the unveiling of a bold pricing strategy for its experimental XDP event held in the Washington, D.C., area each April. Perhaps the biggest news item was the radical “pricing strategy” of offering free admission for association professionals to ASAE’s XDP, or Xperience Design Project, held April 11-12 next year at the Washington, D.C., area’s Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center.

Former Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) CEO Kevin Hinton was hired as vice president of strategy for Minding Your Business (MYB), an agency focused on creating business opportunities and engaging target audiences for associations, DMOS and other hospitality industry partners.

Giants Enterprises senior vice president Stephen Revetria will be awarded 2018 Peter Goldman Award of Excellence from the San Francisco hotel community.

MPI is collaborating with NYU to develop a four-hour course on how to make meetings and events more inclusive for attendees.

Major meetings industry associations have joined forces to fight sexual harassment.

Voices in Advocacy inks deal with RAP Index to use advocacy technology to streamline policymaker outreach and influence.

Las Vegas' 2018 Global Meetings Industry Day event celebrated the impact the meetings and events industry has on the city's economy.

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) is April 12, 2018, and here's where and how to participate.

Travel industry leaders travel to Washington, D.C. to advocate for the industry as part of the annual Destination Capitol Hill program.

Meeting Planners Unite, a third-party organization formed on LinkedIn to combat Marriott's commission cuts, is forming a trade association.