Places & Spaces
DMO Launches Comic Series Via Streaming Services
‘Life’s Rewards,’ an eight-episode comedy program co-produced by the St. Petersburg/Clearwater DMO, gives the destination major screen time — and provides a case-study example of a new CVB business model spurred by the pandemic.
Add Air Quality to Your Event Site-Selection Checklist
Paying attention to a building’s ventilation system is important in managing the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.
Why Air Quality Must Be Part of Venues’ Hygiene Protocol
The emphasis on cleaning and disinfecting venues in the age of COVID-19 is missing a larger point: Reliably healthy and safe environments depend on clean air and a more holistic approach.
Four Battered Hotel Chains Still Make Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For List
Despite a year like none other for the hospitality industry, Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, and Kimpton were ranked in the top 17 percent of the annual 100 Best Companies to Work For List.
Virtual ‘Field Trips’ to Bring City to Meetings’ Participants
Two online events are making Richmond, Virginia, central to their education — and diversity and inclusion — programs.
Helping Attendees Experience a Destination Digitally
Austin had been a big draw for 2020 American College of Toxicology’s annual meeting registrants. Organizers needed to figure out a way to bring as much of the destination as possible to an entirely online audience.
Walk/Bike/Places Brings Online Attendees ‘Outdoors’
Here’s how an annual conference for placemaking professionals tweaked its mobile workshops to give virtual tours of its host city.
A Master Class in Art and Public Safety
Traveling exhibition turns ballroom at America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis into a Michelangelo gallery with nearly life-sized recreations of his Sistine Chapel paintings.
Airbn-Be There Through Virtual Travel
With travel still largely on hold, the company’s Online Experiences are giving guests a chance to see, touch, and taste new destinations from home.
Can Venues Have a Say in Event Set Design?
The controversy around how the recent Conservative Political Action Conference stage set bore a resemblance to a Nazi hate symbol raised the question: How much influence can a host venue exert over the staging of an event? We asked an attorney to weigh in.
Booking Meeting Venues Site Unseen
The digital tools that make it possible to conduct all or part of site visits remotely have come to the forefront over the last year, in ways that may change how planners book meetings in the future. Planners and destinations share their strategies.
What LEGO, Economic Development, and Events Have in Common
Economic Development Winnipeg found a way to use a team member’s pandemic pastime and LEGO sets to help explain in simple terms how tourism and business events are integral to economic development.