Introducing the 2021 Meetings Today Excellence Awards winners, representing meetings and events industry suppliers who helped their colleagues and the industry through charitable acts and sharing expert research in the last year.

The path forward if often paved by lessons learned from difficult experiences. Here’s some of the meeting industry’s biggest takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it can emerge stronger than before.

These are the 2021 leaders who soared as the meetings and events industry recovers and moves forward.

Organizations valuing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have increasingly addressed demands to respond with a zero-tolerance policy toward racial injustice, workplace inequities and discriminatory legislation.

Meetings Today LIVE! hosted its first live event of 2021 on the Island of Hawai`i. See how we made it happen!

Four female Marriott International general managers mark International Women's Day 2021 by reflecting on their hospitality industry careers and giving advice for women stepping up the career ladder.

If moving forward with live meetings during COVID-19, consider these pre-event communication strategies for success and safety.

In the video, which premiered at Destination International’s 2020 Annual Convention, Black executives from destination marketing organizations around the country share their experiences with racism in their lives and in the tourism industry.

How professionals in the meetings and events industry are lifting each other up during the hard times brought on by COVID-19. Read more.

Meetings Today blogger Joan Eisenstodt has been participating in many of the thrice-weekly COVID-19 press conferences from the World Health Organization (WHO). Here's what she found out from the experts fighting the spread of the virus, how it impacts the meetings and events industry, and what the industry needs to learn from the crisis.