Certifications are diversifying and establishing multidisciplinary event planning practices that offer everything from tradeshow planning to corporate-specific event planning to virtual and hybrid events.

Education is critical to help planners develop strategies to move forward. Corporate meeting planners across the country know this well.

As chair of the department of Hospitality, Tourism & Culinary Arts at the College of Coastal Georgia, Tyra Warner, Ph.D., Esq., CMP, notes the devastating impact of the global pandemic: “In the short run, COVID-19 found many people out of work.” While hotels and resorts leveraged the economic downturn to reimagine their properties through new […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has created myriad challenges for the meetings and events within the medical community…

The when, where, why and how of education sessions has changed, and innovation keeps coming. Much of the current philosophy related to delivering content has evolved not from education theory but from the world of design.

Ongoing education is a must in the profession. Certificate programs such as the CMP and CMM provide tactical and strategic foundations, but beyond that, successful planners feel the need to stay current on a variety of topics.

From the CMP and CMM to specialization certificates and designations, meeting planners have multiple avenues to advancement.

Meeting professionals face increasing demands from their clients and employers to prove their skills in a constantly changing industry.

The meeting industry is not known for controversy. But earlier this year, a major eruption occurred when MPI announced changes to the coveted Certificate in Meeting Management (CMM).

Advancing through the meeting planning and incentive travel program profession now requires deciphering the alphabet soup of certifications. Like many professions, planners serious about their career must constantly prove competency by acquiring certifications, and augmenting job experience by participating in continuing educational programs. But making sense of the acronyms has gotten trickier. A range of […]