Event Management

Tips and tactics to make you a successful an event planner. Learn how to perfect your event planning skills and become a better event professional. Advance your career and reach your goals by learning from the best event managers and specialists in the event industry worldwide.

Destinations

Why Choosing the Right Meetings Destination Is Key to Inspiring Innovation

Montréal pushes the boundaries to inspire innovation through its vibrant culture and unique venues, attracting industry leaders.

Tourisme Montreal + Skift Meetings | 1 day ago

Event Management

Kids at Conferences — Inclusive or Impractical?

Allowing kids at conferences fosters inclusivity and belonging, but safety protocols, liability insurance, and background screenings are a must.

Andrea Doyle | 1 week ago

Event Management

Why Is Everyone Ghosting Each Other?

From dating apps to employment websites, ghosting is the new normal – and now it’s becoming standard practice between meeting planners and suppliers.

Barbara Scofidio | 1 week ago

Three people sitting on a stage having a conversation with an audience of around 100 people watching.

Event Management

The Challenge of Non-Exhibiting Suppliers at Trade Shows

When sellers do business on a trade show floor without paying for the privilege to do so, it creates two issues: organizers miss out on revenue, and paying exhibitors feel cheated. A recent show put measures in place to stop this from happening.

Andrea Doyle and Miguel Neves | 3 weeks ago

Event Management

How To Get Event Vendors To Work With You: 15 Proven Tips

Want an events team comprised of the most brilliant players in the area? So does everyone else. Vendors can make or break your event. Let’s turn things around and build partnerships that actually work for both of you.

Kanchi Jain | 1 month ago

Destinations

How Partnering with DMOs Adds Value to Your Meeting

The sooner planners engage with a host destination’s DMO, the more opportunities they have to create meaningful and unique experiences that will allow attendees to thrive.

Destination DC + Skift Meetings | 2 months ago

Event Management

Hotel Points for Planners: Who Cashes In?

Planners face many ethical challenges in their jobs, but one of the biggest is what to do with hotel points.

Barbara Scofidio | 2 months ago

Event Management

Skift Meetings Forum Uncovers What Stresses Planners Out Most

We distilled a day’s worth of sessions from the recent Skift Meetings Forum to identify seven of the biggest tension points among planners.

Barbara Scofidio | 2 months ago

Event Management

Enough Already With All These Extra Fees

A fee for turning on the electricity? Or putting an item in the minibar to keep it cold? When it comes to unexpected and unfair fees, planners say the situation has gone too far.

Barbara Scofidio | 2 months ago

Bills and coins on a table next to a red purse and a plant

Event Management

Hotel Fees Planners Hate the Most

Destination charges. Administrative fees. Water excise taxes. Hotel fees can add 30 to 40% to a meeting budget.

Barbara Scofidio | 3 months ago