Meeting Planner Resources

Meeting Planner Resources

Vivra Chocolate, food trends, food and beverage

6 Foodie Trends Coming to Fruition This Summer

For the true foodie, pickling has outgrown its cucumber roots and expanded to other vegetables, from cauliflower to Brussels sprouts.
San Francisco, destination marketing, selling destinations, meeting destinations

5 Ways CVBs Can Help Planners Market the Destination

Most CVBs and DMOs have downloadable information and interactive maps for meeting planners to provide to their clients and conference attendees.
Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2016, diversity, diverse meetings

10 Tips for Finding More Diverse Speakers

Inviting people from all career stages will greatly increase gender and ethnic diversity.
Shangri-La Hotel Paris, Paris, hotel-room costs, meetings budget

5 Ways to Cut Hotel Room Costs

Hotel brands such as Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts offer loyalty programs for meeting planners to be able to earn and redeem points for groups, meetings conferences and events.
Meditation, Mindfulness, Workplace Mindfulness

5 Ways to Incorporate Mindfulness in the Workplace

Set aside a couple minutes by yourself or with coworkers to be mindful before walking into a business meeting.
Big Data, geolocation, data meetings

4 Ways Big Data Can Drive Your Events

Meeting planners can give attendees access to specific information, prizes and downloadable materials to help draw them into a specific trade-show booth or presentation located just a few feet away.

4 Ways to Drive Attendee Engagement on the Show Floor

Break down the barriers between your conference and exhibition with short talks on hot topics.
meeting app, event

4 Tips for Boosting App Adoption

Educate not just attendees, but also speakers, exhibitors and sponsors who have a lot to gain from using the app.
New York Visionary Summit, Langham Place, Agnes Canonica, CMP, AHM, international travel

6 Travel Reminders for Meetings Abroad

As meeting planners take attendees to more exotic destinations, it’s important to know the specifics of what’s required to travel abroad before signing a contract.
New York Visionary Summit, meeting, risk management, meetings safety, traveling abroad

7 Health & Safety Risk-Management Tips for Global Events

For meeting planners who didn’t attend our NY Visionary Summit, here are seven reminders and words of advice about health and safety risk management to consider when organizing a global event.
carbon reduction, meetings

6 Tips for Carbon Reduction at Events

Try to source local fruit and vegetables that are in season. It may cost a little bit more, but it will definitely taste better.
liquor liability, meetings

7 Liquor Liability Tips

Tips on liquor liability from insurance experts
F&B, meetings

10 Unconventional Ways to Cut F&B Costs

When booking F&B for a group's afternoon break, be sure to ask for "pop on consumption"—you only want to be charged for what is consumed.
Snapchat, social media, event-marketing, marketing tools

3 Ways to Use Snapchat for Event Marketing

By using Snapchat’s “Story” feature, you can update followers with a series of videos and images on the progress of the preparation for your event as well as ads that build excitement about the event.