Rachael Riggs, the wellbeing leader at Maritz Global Events, has taken on a new role at the company: general manager, environmental strategy. While she’ll continue to develop and measure the impact of ...

As vice president and deputy general counsel at event management giant Maritz for the past seven years, Jill Blood has had a front-row seat on industry contracting trends. And one trend that has ...

Meeting professionals are not doing enough to reduce the carbon emissions of meetings and events. That’s the bottom-line assessment from Ovation Global DMC, reporting on the results of its recent ...

Knowland’s report on year-over-year events growth says Nashville’s meetings scene jumped more than 30 percent in September. Here are the other high-percentage growth cities, and the industries driving ...

With staffing a difficult task and with more employees working remotely, many companies see the value in hosting events that would have seemed over the top just a few years ago.

On the flip side, the industries seen by employees as most lacking in event sustainability are property and construction, public services and administration, insurance, education, and hospitality and ...

While there’s evidence supporting that strategy, there’s little appetite for abandoning national meetings, says one sustainability expert. There is, however, a simpler way to cut emissions for ...

The Incentive Research Foundation took a deep dive into how early-career, mid-career, and late-career workers view the motivational appeal of various rewards. Surprisingly, there might be more ...

Visit Denver is the first destination marketing organization to earn EIC’s highest sustainability status. So, what did it take to make the grade and what does that status mean or groups? Here’s a ...

Nobody is surprised to hear that there are disproportionately fewer women in meeting leadership positions compared to the number of women in the field. A new report looks at why.

According to the March 2024 Cvent Source Snapshot Report, which analyzes data from tens of thousands of event requests for proposal sent through the company’s system, meeting volume is creeping up ...

Set on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico less than 5 miles from the El Yunque Rainforest, the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Rainforest Beach & Golf Resort is in the midst of a full-property refresh that ...