Meeting Planner News & Articles

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. 

Staten Island, a short ferry ride from Manhattan, is home to the lush Greenbelt—nearly 3,000 acres of parks, woods, wetlands, trails and outdoor recreation facilities—as well as one-of-a-kind meeting spaces like the Richmond County Bank Ballpark, home to the Staten Island Yankees.

The Bronx is not only the birthplace of hip-hop: the borough also features the Bronx Zoo, the largest metropolitan zoo in the country, and the gorgeous New York Botanical Garden.

Queens is New York City’s largest and most diverse borough, home to gorgeous green spaces, world-class museums and the New York Mets baseball team—not to mention that it’s also the birthplace of Scrabble and the final resting place of Harry Houdini.