Traveler safety and security; growth in travel for employee recruitment; and localizing programs to specific regions are on American Express Meetings & Events SVP Issa Jouaneh’s mind.

How are proposed U.S. travel policies affecting international attendance — and projected attendance — at meetings and conferences in the U.S.? We asked event organizers what they are thinking.

These airports and airport hotels are transforming themselves into places where people actually want to spend time.

The Stop Online Booking Scams Act, legislation introduced before the U.S. Congress earlier this year, aims to protect both general consumers and meeting attendees from hotel-booking pirates.

We love to complain about airports and airlines, but here are four that defy the stereotypes.

A new forecast paints a troubling picture for the immediate future of leisure and business travel, and the long-term outlook for conferences and events also looks worrisome.

At a recent forum sponsored by Meet Puerto Rico, a panel of meetings and travel heavyweights discussed the many challenges — and select opportunities — of ‘Traveling in These Times.’

With Airbnb’s Trips — an innovation that its PR team has dubbed “the biggest news in Airbnb history” — the company offers travelers opportunities to explore the hidden side of destinations.

How one housing-pirate company is duping registrants out of their hotel rooms — as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars — by using fake websites.

When Lisa Mikita, CMP, CAE, started her new job at the American Foundry Society (AFS) this past fall, she had a new office, a new title — trade show and

Pirates, poachers, room block bullies. These companies may be called different names, but every planner can agree that they represent big problems.