Meetings and Events Industry News

With the return of in-person events, industry professionals may have overlooked one factor in their desire to nurture diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts — the event space itself

If the last two years have proved anything, it is how difficult producing a hybrid event is, but for CES, being one of the largest events in the world, the demands and expectations are two-fold.

For the event industry to make good on its commitment to sustainability, there’s a lot more work to be done. What’s holding things up, and what should the next steps be?

Meetings & events is now the center of how companies and industries create culture, and we're embracing the future of business events — with our latest adventure: Skift Meetings.

Membership Collective Group is best known for its Soho House member's clubs and being unprofitable for decades. The company reported earnings on Wednesday, continuing its unprofitable streak.

A weeklong event in Buenos Aires acted as the unofficial relaunch of the meetings sector after the pandemic slump. But recovering lost ground — just 20 percent of the business is back — while dealing with new hybrid models could take about two years, tourism officials admit.

Skift threw out the standard conference template during its Future of Lodging Forum and this is what it looked like. Since remote work is the new way of life, the conference was just two half-days. Attendees appreciated the new format as it allowed them time to digest the information shared while indulging in a half-a-day to enjoy as they desired.

Humans are meant to be together, especially when it comes to conducting business. We yearn to see each other’s faces in person. And we want to touch and shake hands.

In this episode of the Event Manager Podcast, host Miguel Neves sits down with Fiona Bruder, George P Johnson Experience Marketing’s president for the Americas. She talks about how to create experiences that connect people in memorable ways.

A Salt Lake City-based tech startup saw an unmet need in the event industry – how to collect and analyze attendee spend and movement data – and now the company’s growth is skyrocketing. Why this matters.