CVBs

Reaching out to CVBs is a smart first step toward planning for an event, says Michelle Thornton, events procurement manager at Penske Media Corporation in Los Angeles, CA. But when she has the budget, Thornton likes to go a step further and employ a DMC.

Across the nation, an impressive group of women is reshaping the visitor economy — taking a new approach to destination storytelling, spearheading billion-dollar development initiatives and crafting brand identities that resonate globally.

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

Each year we ask CVB CEOs for their take on the state of the industry, their city and what the future holds.

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.