To curse or not to curse? While the use of profanity by corporate speakers at meetings and events is not totally taboo, there is debate whether dropping an F-bomb during a presentation is appropriate.

In today’s world, the chance of a crisis interrupting your meeting or event isn’t so much the “if” it will happen, but “when” it might happen and “what” that crisis might be. The other reality is that while you can’t foresee and prevent many crises, there are steps that every planner should take to ensure they are prepared to handle any issue that comes along, as part of their “duty of care.”

Andavo Meetings' Brenda Rivers explains what Duty of Care means to meeting planners and how they can fulfill the obligation.

The tragic events that seem to impact our world at an ever increasing rate, from mass shootings and natural disasters to criminal acts, are especially dangerous in a legal sense to organizers of meetings and events.

Here are eight tips from leading meetings industry attorney Tyra Hilliard to help meeting and event planners limit liability when alcohol is being served.

The recent news about a family of four from Iowa found dead in their condo in Tulum, Mexico, brought to light a little publicized risk lurking in every kind of lodging. Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning can happen within a matter of minutes and is responsible for more deaths than any other single poison.

Given today’s increasingly complex and turbulent world, it’s little wonder if site selection has also grown increasingly complex. It’s a multi-faceted process in which concerns over safety, technology, attendee engagement, ethics and rising costs can all come into play.

Dallas officials are conflicted over whether to allow the NRA to hold its annual convention in the city following the Parkland school shooting.

Got an extra $25 million lying around in the petty cash drawer you can afford to lose?

Having an emergency response plan in place before a meeting or event occurs is seemingly obvious but not always followed advice.