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MPI’s Q1 2024 Meetings Outlook Report Looks Promising

Meeting Professionals International, quarterly Meetings Outlook Report finds positive sentiment for the overall business of live events in Q1 of 2024. Grow is trending upwards across the most significant metrics — business conditions, attendance, budgets— while hiring difficulties have improved for each of the past three quarters.

Destinations Hotel & Resort Companies

8 Great Florida Keys Openings & Renovations

The Keys are known as a destination for fishing, boating, snorkeling, and scuba diving. The Keys have many resorts, including high-end hotels, boutique hotels, and all-inclusive resorts. Here are eight properties that are opening or undergoing renovations to make sure the Keys experience stays great.

Experts

Can’t Miss, Must to Avoid

I had started to write this column about how some natural phenomena are perfect to build a viewing party around. Then suddenly my apartment in New York City began shaking under the effect of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that shook a large part of the northeast.

Industry Planner Resources

Convene Debuts Event Space Expansion

Convene, a global hospitality company that designs and manages premium meeting, event, and flexible office space, celebrates its newly expanded venue at 101 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.  The expansion is in direct response to growing demand for professional meetings and events up to 200 guests.

Experts

The Tipping Point

This is a true story about tipping gone wrong that happened to me long ago at the beginning of my career. It taught me a hard lesson about who to tip and who not to.

Industry Hotel & Resort Companies

Hilton’s Off to College

Hilton has acquired the Graduate Hotels® brand, adding a significant growth opportunity for the global hospitality leader in the fast-growing lifestyle hotel market.

Experts

Left Holding the Bag

Where has that army of service workers that used to staff hotels gone?

Industry Planner Resources

Colorado’s Premier Meetings and Events Trade Show Returns 

On March 26-27, more than 1,000 meetings and events industry planners and suppliers from all over North America will gather at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver for two days of networking, trade show appointments and education at the 2024 Meetings Industry Council (MIC) of Colorado Educational Conference and Trade Show.

Experts

A Personal History of Public Violence

Could the shooting at the Kansas City Super Bowl celebration have been prevented? The short, tragic answer is no.

Industry Hotel & Resort Companies

Marriott International Announces Record Year

At the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) In January, Marriott International, Inc. announced the company’s record year of global signings with 52 percent more organic rooms signed in 2023 than in 2022.