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This summer, Celebrity Cruises will score a first for the cruise industry when Captain Kate McCue takes the helm of the 91,000-ton, 965-foot Celebrity Summit.

Popularized in New York City, the DanceBody fitness program is expanding to Miami, offering classes at Anatomy at 1220 in Miami Beach.

Cisco Systems Inc.’s recent executive leadership meeting took over the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Open Sea Wing, where 130 attendees donned costumes for an “All Hands on Deck” theme.

Prevue's new meeting planner advisory board, which includes corporate, association and independent planners from every facet of the industry, will serve for a one-year period.

Hotel spas are introducing group-focused programs that allow attendees to spa together.

With Cuban tourism on the rise, hotel companies are quickly taking interest in new developments on the island.

The Delta Edge Meetings program converges meeting travel with corporate travel management in a way that is expected to help save companies money and time.

Stirring the imagination through transformational experiences has long been the mainspring of Singapore’s approach to meetings, and a recent rebranding explains why.

"We must go beyond simply accepting equal opportunity; rather, we must value and embrace diversity as a strategic competitive advantage."

Meeting attendees can fight human trafficking by uploading hotel room photos to a new app called TraffickCam which helps investigators gather information.

Last year, the City of Austin started requiring ride-hailing companies, both ride-share companies and taxis, to fingerprint its drivers, and both Uber and Lyft pulled out in protest.

Talk to any planner or hotel sales person and they will tell you that the meetings industry is a relationship business. We teamed up with the Incentive Research Foundation to put that statement to the test with the first-ever survey asking both sides the same questions about how they work together.

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No matter what side of the political argument you and your group supports, the key thing that all meetings industry professionals can do is monitor policy issues that impact the industry.

A 15-minute yoga session or Zumba class can provide a much-needed boost of energy that will last longer than a shot of espresso.