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🇨🇦 Canadians Won’t Come to Your Meeting? Try Hosting Two

 
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Thursday May 22, 2025
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Miguel Neves
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Careers & Personal Development

AI Prompts to Help Planners Achieve Clarity, Build Confidence, and Stay Organized

Who better to create supportive and uplifting AI prompts for planners than a former event planner-turned-coach?

- Barbara Scofidio
Industry News

Canadians Won't Come to Your Conference? Try Hosting Two

Canadians balked at attending the NASSS's conference in Seattle. The fix: add one in Vancouver as well as a virtual option.

- Andrea Doyle
Destinations

Ready for Groups: 9 New Hotels in Mexico and Latin America

These new hotels and resorts offer planners a variety of settings for both meetings and incentive trips, from a new W in São Paolo and Hyatt Regency in the heart of Panama City, to beachfront resorts in Cancun and Costa Mujeres, Mexico, and Punta Cacique in Costa Rica.

- Barbara Scofidio and Miguel Neves 
Industry News

Accor Selects MeetingPackage for Real-Time Bookings

With the aim of transforming the standard 48-hour meetings business turnaround into real-time responses, Accor is partnering with MeetingPackage to automate group bookings and meeting space reservations.

- Andrea Doyle
Destinations

How Louisville's Award-Winning Charm Built a Top Event Destination

With two convention centers, accommodation options that cater to every type of attendee, and an airport with nonstop service to 38 destinations, Louisville checks all the boxes of a premier convention city. To understand its magic, though, you need to look at something that cannot be built: the authentic sense of Southern charm that defines the community.

- Louisville Tourism + Skift Meetings
Destinations

Cvent Announces Top Meeting Destinations and Hotels for 2025

Cvent's latest rankings show where meeting planners — predominantly U.S. corporations — are booking meetings globally.

- Miguel Neves
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The Wellness Intersection

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Is wellness an expense or an investment? Is it a a must-have for millennials and Gen-Z? How do you ensure event wellness offerings are accessible and meaningful for all ages and abilities? This Skift Meetings webinar focuses on the real ROI of wellness.

"U.S. policies are creating an inhospitable environment for conferences."

- Travers, president-elect of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in Canadians Won't Come to Your Conference? Try Hosting Two

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This year's Skift IDEA Awards will celebrate the Meetings & Events Industry across four categories? Here's your step-by-step guide to make sure your submissions stand out from the crowd.

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