Read our round-up of industry news for May 2020. CWT Meetings & Events: focus on safety and security UK event suppliers face collapse within three months PC...

For the travel industry, one key to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown will lie in smart, sensitive and well-timed marketing campaigns, according t...

CRISIS SITUATION As of mid-April, COVID-19 has spread to more than 200 countries and territories, with more than 2 million confirmed cases and the majority o...

Read our round-up of industry news for April 2020. Marriott App Breach Could Have Compromised Personal Info for 5 Million Guests. Calgary TELUS Convention Ce...

Jonathan Howe, Founding Partner and President of Chicago based law firm, Howe & Hutton, Ltd has been serving the events industry for decades through Gulf War...

The event industry is living one of the most difficult times of its existence. The Coronavirus outbreak has forced an incredible amount of events to be postp...

On March 5, 2020, Meeting Escrow held its first Advisory Board Meeting. We would like to take this opportunity to officially thank our board members for thei...

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) is April 14. GMID was created to be an international forum for advocacy, awareness and celebration for the meetings & eve...

While Milan is gearing up for the 2026 Winter Olympics, the three proceeding games are sure to be events you won’t want to miss. The next four games are bein...

Imagine an event professional. We will call her Jane. She has been in the meetings industry for more than a decade. She has a “favorites” phone list of suppl...

GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018, and a year later, it seems clear that data protection and privacy rights are taking center stage on a global scale and...

A year has passed since Marriott and other hotel companies began to reduce third-party commissions from 10 to 7 percent. But for the big third parties, the c...

As hotels are presently enjoying 100 consecutive months of rising revenue per available room and economic indicators are signalling strength into late 2020, ...

Mention the Fyre Festival documentaries to a room full of meeting professionals and a collective shiver passes through the crowd. If you somehow missed the e...

Co-chairs reach beyond industry to protect what is important Pop Quiz: What industry generated more than $1.07 trillion globally in direct spending in 2017? ...

Starting June 17, 2019, Brazil will allow visa-free entry to the country for citizens of Canada, the U.S., Australia and Japan. In January 2018 Canadians wer...

By Rajeev Kohli, CIS, CITP, DMCP SITE President 2016 and 2017 At the recent SITE Conference in Bangkok, I had the opportunity to lead a roundtable discussion...

A world first for a multi-destination alliance, the three-year strategic collaboration will offer BestCities’ clients a new portfolio of secure payment, fore...

In late May 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation went into effect, with new requirements for how organizations handle personal data ...

Cynthia joined Meeting Escrow in January 2019 as Vice President, Sales & Marketing following a successful career with Accor/Fairmont Hotels as Global Sales D...