When you plan your next meeting or convention in Virginia Beach, you’ll find attendees can’t wait to get down to business.

Safe streets, blue skies, great food and astonishing parks. Perhaps there’s little more business event planners could ask for in a major metropolitan destination, and yet the offerings of endearing Sioux Falls continue. It turns out “flyover country” makes for the best kind of meeting place.

The CTTC team shares the lessons learned from using the center as an emergency shelter, a vaccination site, and a meeting venue during the pandemic — and why that insight is important for the future of events.

It’s a new world for hybrid meeting media, and these Ascend Media products not only spur connections and conversations before, during, and after an event, but help drive revenue.

Organizers wanting to submerge their attendees in the great outdoors need only look to Greater Fort Lauderdale. Here are five ways the destination can incorporate its best asset into their next business event.

Despite the global crisis, Phoenix pushes forward with destination enhancements — restaurants, arenas, venues, and transportation improvements — to give meeting planners and attendees more options.

After a long day of meetings, attendees at the Ocean Center Daytona Beach don’t have to go far to dip a toe in the water—they just have to cross the street.

Virginia Beach offers all you need for a successful meeting — location, affordability, and variety, all in a safe and clean coastal destination. And to welcome you back as meetings recover, Virginia Beach is offering incentives.

From lush outdoor spaces to luxurious ballrooms, The Palm Beaches’ diverse array of venues in 39 cities and towns means you can craft the perfect event for your clients.

When it comes to hosting safe events, Des Moines boasts a big advantage: experience. Iowa’s capital city has been open for business since March 2020, proving it can bring people together safely at events large and small.

Charlotte is back in business. The Queen City is successfully hosting meetings and conventions, winning rave reviews for the Religious Conference Management Association’s EMERGE conference in March.

The Orange County Convention Center (OCCC)—one of the first convention centers in the U.S. to receive GBAC STAR Accreditation—has successfully hosted more than 60 live events since June 2020. That includes more than a dozen conventions and trade shows that relocated from other destinations to the Center.