Celebrating the Best of the Best CVBs, Hotels, Resorts and Conference Centers.

Across the nation, optimism and opportunities abound for 2024 and beyond, and you can leverage that wherever you decide to meet.

We asked CVBs large and small across the country what opportunities and challenges they’re seeing in their destinations and what the meetings landscape might look like in coming months.

While many meeting and event planners set their sights on big cities such as Las Vegas, New York and Miami as “go to” locales for all things meetings and events, second-tier cities are gems just waiting to be discovered. Denver, CO When Gretchen Bliss, CMP, DES, director of meetings and conferences for Healthcare Financial Management, […]

Challenges faced by convention and visitors bureaus across the U.S. since March 2020 have been unprecedented.

CVBs and DMOs have learned how to weather the COVID-19 pandemic roller coaster as well as any entity in the travel and tourism industry.

Suppose a planner arranges for a group to drive between several restaurants for a dine-around. The planner checks a map to estimate the travel times based on the shortest routes between restaurants.

Planning a meeting, especially one that is large, complex or takes place in an unfamiliar location, can be a formidable task. Planners overwhelmed with stretching tight budgets and juggling multiple daily tasks may lack the time to handle every meeting detail.

Convention and visitors bureaus can grant planners more time, money and the kind of local, authentic experiences attendees crave.

In addition to highlighting the destination itself, the right experiences give attendees a break from meetings, shake things up and more often than not send them back to the business at hand energized and able to think in new and creative ways.