
Trends Report 2025: Help — and Bleisure Time — Wanted
Hotel staffing shortages and bleisure trips will impact meeting professionals’ planning efforts — and their attendees’ experiences — in 2025. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Hotel staffing shortages and bleisure trips will impact meeting professionals’ planning efforts — and their attendees’ experiences — in 2025. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
How consumer behavior trends translate to business events: Meeting participants also are seeking connection with purpose. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Event professionals’ proficiency using AI tools continues to grow. How about their green skills? Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
The demand to create high-tech, awe-inducing spectacles at events could stretch planners’ budgets to the limit. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
We’ve changed things up this year with our Annual Industry Forecast to give you more pointed insights for what may lie ahead.
For this year’s Industry Forecast, we've culled the latest research on business events and the sectors that support them — travel, event technology, lodging, and the workplace — asking experts to provide insights about what to expect next. Here are some of those insights.
Technology journalist Michelle Bruno shares what — in addition to AI — planners should keep their eye on in Convene’s annual Events Industry Forecast.
What three experts predict will happen when artificial intelligence meets event technology.
New York City, London, Singapore, and Sao Paulo lead regional lists for corporate events, which should reach pre-2019 spend levels in 2023 or 2024.
Social psychologist Heidi Grant and EY Americas Chief Learning Officer Tal Goldhamer weighed in on commonly held beliefs about working — and networking — in person.