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Meeting planners may need to factor tourist taxes into their event travel budget if meeting in any of these five destinations in the coming years.

This month's Planner of the Month, Ira Ozer, is at the forefront of a new category of meetings and recognition travel events known as "Innovation Meetings."

A new law aims to protect airline passengers from cramped seats and getting bumped from flights, but won’t eliminate airline fees.

Meetings Professional International recently launched MPICares, a reporting tool for confidential harassment complaints and concerns.

About half of respondents to the soon-to-be-released joint survey of 708 women by Prevue Meetings & Incentives and the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) reported a glass ceiling—being in jobs where they believed that being a woman had prohibited them from advancing any further.

Under the terms of the $480 million sale, all of the Two Roads brands will join Hyatt’s global portfolio.

The AC Hotels by Marriott brand brings a taste of Europe to Phoenix’s Biltmore area, with the opening of the 160-room AC Hotel Phoenix Biltmore earlier this month.

For this to happen, the rules must change to allow Airbnb to issue equity to hosts while still functioning as a private company.

The future is inherently now as companies vie to become the first to make self-driving cars mainstream.

In the past year, the number of hotels charging fees has grown by 14 percent, according to Resortfeechecker.com, a site that tracks resort fees.

Virgin Atlantic completed the first commercial flight using recycled waste gas.

Groups visiting Florida, Mexico and the Caribbean this fall may be in for a new kind of natural disaster: Sargassum seaweed.

The Boston hotel strike affects several Marriott properties surrounding the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) and the Hynes Convention Center.

Higher pay, better working conditions and union rights are the focus of the organized protest, which began this past Tuesday.