Meeting Planner Resources

Meeting Planner Resources

Zoom

10 Tips for Zoom Meetings

Video entrepreneur Larry Becker offers ten tips for professionals looking to polish up their video meetings and presentations.
meeting industry scholarships

Meeting Industry Scholarships

With so many meeting professionals affected by COVID-19, these meeting industry scholarships can help them land on their feet.
race

Questions About Race Addressed

Seven Black executives from destination marketing organizations across the country partnered on a video to share their experiences and encourage an open dialogue about race.
Hawaii

Hawaii Extends Quarantine

Due to escalating COVID-19 cases on the mainland, the plan to allow out-of-state-visitors to return to Hawaii has been postponed until September 1.
COVID Threat

Launching COVID Threat Alerts

Want to check the COVID threat level in a particular state before planning a US-based meeting? COVID Act Now will help.
GBAC STAR

GBAC STAR Facilities

Five convention centers earn GBAC STAR Accreditation that can help the meetings industry rebound from the coronavirus crisis.
feel-good ideas

3 Feel-Good Ideas

Looking for something you can do to break up the monotony for employees and customers and take their minds off their worries?
next steps

What Are Our Next Steps?

As the industry reels from the impact of COVID-19, the crisis provides a unique opportunity for rethinking and redesigning the new normal.
WTTC

WTTC Travel Guidelines

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has laid out its new guidelines, Safe & Seamless Travel, including testing and tracing, following medical evidence, to ensure people can enjoy safe travels in the new normal.
if an attendee gets covid

What To Do If An Attendee Gets COVID

It's important to have a contingency plan outlining what to do if an attendee shows symptoms of COVID-19 during your meeting.
tablescapes

Inspiring Tablescapes

When the event industry came to a halt, the team from plan A, a Los Angeles–based corporate event agency, got together to do what they do best—create and design. In this case, it was tablescapes.
incentive travel

Julie Blank on Incentive Travel

Julie Blank, Director, Strategic Accounts, Brightspot Incentives & Events, offers her insights about the impact COVID-19 has had on incentive travel.
Staycation

Staycation Gifting

For some this summer, vacation has turned into staycation. And now, wet paint group has created a gifting concept around this new reality.
CDC guidelines

Revised CDC Guidelines

The newly revised CDC Guidelines for events and gatherings are meant to supplement—not replace—state, local, territorial, or tribal health and safety laws, rules and regulations.