SITE Crystal Award Winners
The SITE Crystal Award Winners for 2019 were honored at a luncheon during the association's Global Conference in Vancouver, Canada, January 24 to 27.
What AB5 Means for You
AB5, a California bill designed to protect independent contractors, is causing confusion among meeting planners and contractors.
Event Design With Color
When it comes to event design, the most talented and effective meeting professionals know that colors can have a powerful affect on emotions.
You Need Hold Harmless Clause
The singer Meat Loaf is suing a Dallas hotel and the planners of a horror convention, claiming negligence when he fell from a stage while answering questions from convention-goers last May, a situation that theoretically could be covered in a hold harmless clause.
Emergency Tips From a Pro
Everyone is talking about duty of care and wondering if they’re doing enough to help keep their attendees safe. That's why I created these emergency tips.
4 Healthy Food Swaps
By making these 4 simple healthy food swaps for the protein, meat, dairy, and alcohol portion of your F&B offering you will be bringing wellness to another level.
Adding Ground to the SMMP
Increasingly, strategic meetings management programs are incorporating elements not traditionally in the mix—for example, adding ground to the SMMP.
Wellness at Meetings Limited
Funding for wellness at meetings and incentive programs is a goal, but strategies remain elusive for most companies, according to the annual “Wellness in Incentives” study, conducted by the IRF in conjunction with Prevue.
Event Venue Hits the Mark
A successful event venue captures the attention of those attending while coinciding with the message or theme being conveyed. That is exactly what the Monaco Tourist Office did at Sabatino Truffles.
Wellness Tips From Meet Well
We asked the people who attended Prevue's Meet Well Summit January 3-4 in Marco Island, for some of their biggest wellness takeaways from the conference.
Human Spectrogram Icebreaker
Projecting a map on a floor and having attendees move to the spot that represents where they live is a great way to quickly meet fellow participants who live near them.
Most Popular Meeting Cities for 2020
The most popular meeting cities, according to CWT M&E, the global meetings and events division of CWT, consists of London as number one.
Report Finds Nearly Two-Thirds of Event Speakers are Male
Despite blowback in recent years around the phenomenon of all-male speaker panels (“manels”), not much progress is being made when it comes to event speakers, according to the new Gender Diversity & Inclusion Report...
Heat-Mapping Can Increase Your Meeting ROI
Seeing traffic flow in real-time through heat-mapping can allow for timely adjustments and post-event analysis, thus increasing the meeting ROI.