Spark Editors
What to Consider When Planning for the LGBT Market
Thomas Roth give advice to meeting planners who want to accommodate a more diverse audience.
How to Manage Stress & Engage Millennials
Liz King, CEO of Liz King Events, weighs in on how she manages stress and engages millennials.
Joining the Food Revolution One Event at a Time
The combination of food abundance and food problems increases the need for creative spirits now more than ever.
How to Make the Most of Your Convention Center’s Public Space
Are you making the most of the public spaces surrounding your event?
How River Cruising Works for Incentive Travel
"Cruising, including river cruising, has never been more popular among consumers, and we’re finding a growing market in incentive travel clients as well."
10 Tips for Finding More Diverse Speakers
Inviting people from all career stages will greatly increase gender and ethnic diversity.
Trends in the LGBT Tourism Market
"LGBT meeting planners do care about the LGBT–friendly reputation of hotels and destinations they choose for their meetings."
What I Needed to Unlearn…
In this meeting planner confession, planners share what they needed to learn, or often unlearn, both professionally and personally.
What Does Success Look Like?
What Does Success Look Like? Meeting and event planners share their thoughts on the subject.
Intentional Design to Dr. Seuss: Embracing the Creative Ecosystem
In this shakedown, Doug Chorpenning of the wet paint group draws on everything from intentional design to Dr. Seuss to indirectly define his company's creative ecosystem and how planners can use it to their advantage.
Discovering Underutilized Visual Opportunities to Engage Attendees
Recent studies have shown that approximately 65 percent of people are visual learners. There are lots of underutilized opportunities to engage attendees visually in between sessions, lunches and receptions, says Cynthia Hornketh, CMM, Experient’s VP, experience design.
My Biggest Inspiration…
Planners sound off on their biggest professional and personal inspirations.
Harnessing the Power of Participation
In this Shakedown, we asked Adrian Segar, founder of Conferences That Work, about his new book as well as the evolution of knowledge itself as both relate to improving meeting outcomes.
My Biggest Realization About My Role…
In this "What I Know" meeting planner confession, planners share the biggest realization about what they perceive as their life roles, both personally and professionally.
