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Research Spotlights Present and Future Challenges for Planners
Late registrations and room-block bookings are an issue, but planners see more challenges on the horizon.
How CL24 Earned EIC Silver Sustainable Event Standard Certification
PCMA Convening Leaders 2024 achieved Silver certification for its sustainability efforts. Now it’s time to explore what considerations and steps are necessary to raise the bar in 2025.
5 Ways to Move the Dial on Women’s Leadership in the Business Events Industry
A comprehensive look at why gender disparities persist in senior leadership roles in the business events industry — and ideas for how the global industry can create change.
Help Out Your Exhibitors
The Exhibitor Advocate recently released its 2023 Annual Survey of Exhibition Rates. This report compares material handling, labor, and equipment costs across 24 major U.S. destinations. Here are two takeaways you should consider.
Convene’s Annual Salary Survey: Are You Earning as Much as Your Peers?
Help us understand better what has changed from 2023, including how your role is evolving, the challenges you face, what your workplace environment is like, and what keeps you coming back for more (in addition to a paycheck — and yes, we want to hear about that, too!).
Lessons in Event Marketing From Taylor Swift
Regardless of whether you’re a Swiftie or a non-believer, as an event marketer, you can learn a lot from the megastar’s wildly successful approach to promoting her music, her shows, and herself.
edUcon 2024 Preview: ‘People Really Crave Connection’
Charlie Todd, founder of the comedy collective Improv Everywhere, will talk about creating joyful shared experiences for conference attendees on the edUcon 2024 Main Stage in Detroit.
Moving Your Meeting Amid Rising Reproductive Rights Concerns
Post Dobbs decision, the destinations where the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine can safely meet have dwindled to a select few. Here’s how the association has navigated increasingly tricky legal contracts, member dissonance and advocacy, and the difficult decision to relocate the meeting at the last minute.
Earth Day 2024: Ending Single-Use Plastic
Plastics are one of the most pressing environmental threats we face. And it is a threat that the events industry can do something about.
Rethinking Early-Bird Pricing — and Other Time-Honored Registration Strategies
A new “Registration Insights Report” from Maritz draws on more than 360,000 attendee registration records over a three-year period to identify new registration booking behaviors, yielding surprising findings about who spends more — early birds or latecomers — at events.
Survey Explores Speaker and Planner Dynamics
The “2024 Speaking Industry Benchmark Report” offers insights into the current state of the relationship between planners and speakers — and how speaker selection factors into an event’s success.
Is the RFP Process for Events Getting Easier or Harder?
A handful of event suppliers and organizers traded their insights on how the RFP process has changed since the pandemic during a session at Business Events Industry Week.