NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Preferred Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest independent hotel brand, is pleased to announce the relaunch of its Meeting Planner website, designed to ...

Over the course of her 14-year career in the industry, Liza Lampi has planned and executed events and conferences in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States. Lampi works at ...

Using your organization and event planning skills will enable you to start a corporate-meeting planner service. Long gone are the days of boring boardroom meetings for middle managers, executives, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Sands covers travel and the hospitality industry. Conventions and meetings are big business for the hospitality industry.

Meeting planner veteran Laura Gieseking has the unique opportunity of helping organize a major event that will attract industry members to the Twin Cities from around the world. Gieseking, who ...

Meeting & Convention Planners (MCPs) play a vital part of the tourism industry. Not only do they often decide what community will receive a lucrative convention but their opinions also matter in the ...

Though companies are cutting expenditures, business meetings still are important. And so are meeting planners. Meeting planning is a $56.6 billion industry in the United States. Last year, more than ...

You may not see the sideways glances or hear the hushed remarks, but rest assured, they're there. Few endeavors can trigger trepidation and sarcasm among employees quite like the announcement of an ...

This story was originally published on Hotel Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Hotel Dive newsletter. The 2025 State of the Meetings Industry report, released by ...

Visit Indy and city officials are preparing to host Meeting Professionals International, an influential group that books more than 10,000 meetings and events annually for large companies. They’ll roll ...

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Around 1,400 meeting planners and destination representative are gathered in Milwaukee this week for Connect Marketplace, an education and networking conference. "I'm only used to ...