Meeting Planner News & Articles

The networking experiences your attendees have outside the meeting room can be just as crucial to your meeting’s success as the keynote or an expert panel.

Flowers can be the first and last impression your attendees have of your meeting, which means that chic, innovative arrangements do double duty.

New York City will host WorldPride 2019, a global celebration of LGBTQ rights.

New York City’s robust airlift and 24/7 public-transportation system make it easy for meeting attendees to get here and get around. The City’s transportation infrastructure has undergone some exciting changes recently and is getting some major upgrades this year and beyond.

On April 12, New York City joined forces with the Meetings Mean Business Coalition and destinations around the world to celebrate the third annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID).

New York City’s 1.8-million-square-foot Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, located in the Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s west side, is one of the busiest convention centers in North America.

New York City played host to PCMA’s 2017 Education Conference June 11–14, 2017, bringing together more than 800 meeting professionals at the New York Marriott Marquis for four days of education and training sessions.

Whether they’re interested in dining, shopping or the theater, attendees love New York City for its wide variety of experiences outside of the traditional meeting room. More and more, event strategists are turning to nontraditional meeting spaces for all-day and half-day sessions as well as team-building programs.

Stepping out onto the floor at the annual Summer Fancy Food Show, which has been hosted by the Specialty Food Association (SFA) in New York City for 63 years, is like walking into the world’s largest supermarket—that is, if every product had one of its creators explaining why you just have to try it.

Each summer New York City’s already legendary food scene becomes even more interesting when 2,500-plus specialty foods companies from 45 countries arrive at the City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for the Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) annual Summer Fancy Food Show.