Vincent Alonzo

Rehiring and reskilling conference center staff is a priority of the industry and must be complete before group business returns to where it was pre-pandemic. 

Pirates can be lurking around the edges of your events poaching time and, in the worst-case scenario, business, from your attendees. There are ways to prevent these dubious characters from stealing your business.

Online groups and chat rooms for event planners are proliferating, resulting in much curiosity. Planners wonder if it’s better to post or chat? Are they worth paying to join, and if so, which ones? 

Hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, floods, and other weather events are realities event professionals must plan for. A detailed disaster preparedness plan is key.

Sick of event contracts? They're even more complicated post-pandemic.

A rogue speaker can damage an event or company's reputation. There's no full-proof way to stop this, but there are ways to minimize the chances of this happening.

Liz Lathan, CMP, CMO, and Cofounder of Haute Companies has crowdsourced some of the worst attendee pet peeves that are featured in the book, The Attendee Bill of Rights.

Motivational speakers aren’t always who they say they are. What can you do to protect your company from being duped?

Face-to-face gatherings are returning but the risk of last-minute cancellations remains a top concern of event planners.