Places & Spaces
Food Recovery Efforts Are Always on the Menu
Venues and food-service businesses don’t just think about food recovery efforts in a time of crisis. But here are standout examples of how some are helping others during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Truck Tour Spreads Word About New CAESARS FORUM
As Caesars prepares to open the doors to a new 550,000-square-foot conference center in Las Vegas, the company is taking a surprising spin around the country to showcase the new facility.
AAA Updates Its Diamond Program for Hotels, Restaurants
The 80-year-old hotel and restaurant approval program now offers professional analysis instead of user-driven ratings.
Discovering the Palm Beaches
Southeast Florida’s collection of several dozen communities offers a singularly memorable experience for groups.
Video-Game Properties: A New Player in the Hotel Industry
When gamers take a break from the screen and leave home, they will be able to continue the competition at Atari Hotels — a new concept in the works that offers further proof of the hospitality industry’s push for immersive experiences.
Resilient Puerto Rico is Open for Visitors
Convene visits with a Puerto Rico hotel exec for a firsthand account of how most tourist and event destinations remain unaffected by recent earthquakes and the recovery efforts that are underway for those who have been displaced.
The Broadmoor Resort: Runway to the Stars
With a major new expansion underway, the Colorado Springs resort will be able to continue to accommodate the growing annual Space Symposium — and attract larger groups to the property year-round.
London Tops World’s Best Cities List for 3rd Year in a Row
This year, a U.S. city came in second in Resonance Consultancy’s annual list of the World’s 100 Best Cities, based on a wide variety of factors — a number of which overlap with event site selection.
Manchester Buzzes with New Ideas, Innovations
The world’s first industrialized city, Manchester is in renaissance mode, humming with breakthroughs in life sciences and advanced material manufacturing.
Interactive Installation is ‘a Mirror of San Francisco’
One of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s interactive art installations — French artist known as “JR” — offers insights from a mosaic of people who have helped shape the city’s future.
What’s New at the Moscone Center?
A lot, following a multimillion-dollar expansion. Here are some highlights.
Island-Hopping in Japan
A recent fam trip to Osaka — for the jointly held VJTM 2019 and Tourism EXPO Japan (TEJ) 2019 — and the island of Hokkaido revealed two very different faces of Japan.