Clock is Ticking for Travelers to Obtain REAL IDs
The deadline to get your REAL ID-compliant licenses or other forms of ID, which U.S. travelers must have to fly domestically, is less than six months away — and can be a painstaking process.
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‘Never Accept a Ceiling That Someone Else Might Create for You’
After 30 years in the travel and meetings industry, Elliott Ferguson, president and CEO of Destination DC and a PCMA Groundbreaker, is carving a path for a new generation of leaders to follow.
Virtual Art Tour Engages Participants With Scents From the Past
A “see-and-smell” art tour by the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis takes far-flung digital participants on a fragrant trip to the gallery — and back to the 17th century.
Enforcing Mask Mandates at Events
The heated debate over wearing face masks in public is carrying over to in-person business events, raising the question: Who is in charge of enforcing COVID-safe attendee behavior? Organizers or venues?
Taking the Pomp out of Pomp and Ceremony
How a digital makeover turned a formal ceremony into a community celebration that brought hundreds of people together.
Which Women Inspire You?
PCMA staff members and the business events community share the women who inspire them most in honor of Women's History Month.
3 Ways to Turn COVID Safety Measures Into Attendee Engagement Opportunities
With more events implementing COVID-19 rapid testing, here are three simple ways to make the lag time between administering the test to attendees and getting the results to them a better experience.
How an Online Collaboration Platform Company Held Its Own Virtual Event
MURAL — an online tool that enables teams to think and collaborate visually — stepped into its clients’ shoes when planning how to use its own platform for an engaging company retreat.
In a Career of Firsts, Yet Another for Events Industry Pioneer Carol Wallace
Carol Wallace, recipient of the inaugural PCMA Groundbreakers Award, talks about her 35-year career that included 24 years as president and CEO of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation.
Incoming PCMA Board Chair: ‘We’re Going to Start to See Events Come Back’ in Late 2021
The way events professionals supported each other in 2020 was “uplifting,” says Kirsten Olean, incoming Chair of the PCMA Board of Directors. Now they need to “embrace that next normal” of digital and hybrid events.
PCMA Foundation Board Chair: ‘This Was One Crazy Year’
Valerie Sumner, chair of the 2020 PCMA Foundation Board of Trustees, says she is honored to have served when 'we focused on our strength, our resilience, our power to pave our way to the next normal.'
PCMA Board of Directors Chair: ‘I Have Been Humbled’ in 2020
Stuart Ruff-Lyon, 2020 Chairman of the PCMA Board of Directors, looks back on a year of challenges both personal and professional, and the changes the pandemic has brought to the business events industry.