An Austin hotel offers meeting attendees a fun alternative with a whimsical popup “swag shack.”

With Airbnb’s Trips — an innovation that its PR team has dubbed “the biggest news in Airbnb history” — the company offers travelers opportunities to explore the hidden side of destinations.

Elegant Providence, once fallen on hard times, has been reborn.

Meet in beautifully preserved — and updated — historic structures in this gracious city, where hospitality and good eating are a way of life.

Medical and scientific organizations are creating their own purpose-built conference facilities — both to host their own programs and generate revenue from other groups.

Even the items on the buffet take their cue from a local tropical rainforest.

For coal miners, it was a canary that warned of trouble. For the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE), it was the Twinkie. When Hostess, the venerable snack food’s parent company, declared

With a growing number of special-meal requests, meeting planners are getting creative to accommodate the needs and preferences of attendees with food allergies or lifestyle and religious dietary restrictions.

How one housing-pirate company is duping registrants out of their hotel rooms — as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars — by using fake websites.

When Lisa Mikita, CMP, CAE, started her new job at the American Foundry Society (AFS) this past fall, she had a new office, a new title — trade show and

Pirates, poachers, room block bullies. These companies may be called different names, but every planner can agree that they represent big problems.