Inspiration

Small river cruise ships are being custom built with meetings and corporate retreats in mind. Do they have the tools in place to accommodate these gatherings?

Skift gathered its worldwide team together for a retreat in Puerto Rico and discovered that traveling in a post-pandemic world can be challenging.

Skift threw out the standard conference template during its Future of Lodging Forum and this is what it looked like.

Drawing a blank around event ideas is something most within the industry grapple with at some point. With this in mind, event professionals share their go-to creative inspirations.

Most event professionals have already been through a crash course in hosting virtual events thanks to the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to keep up with expectations. To stay ahead of the competition and keep remote audiences engaged, event planners need to leverage both their own creativity and industry best practices for online events. Here are 37 virtual event ideas to inspire your upcoming events.

Boring trade show booths don’t attract visitors and they certainly don’t help sales. But coming up with new and exciting ideas is costly and time-consuming. Or is it?

Do you know all the key statistics that will affect the way you create events? Here is a comprehensive collection of 100 key statistics for the event industry in 2022.

For digital storytelling to be compelling, event planners do not necessarily need to use or rely on the latest technology. By finding new creative uses for existing tech, digital events can tell stories with impact. 

Skift Forum Europe 2022 brought together Europe’s top minds in travel and set the scene for what recovery from the Covid pandemic will look like in the event industry. Here we take a closer look at the key trends identified. 

Hybrid events have become a well-known and often requested event format. However, for event producers and marketers to deliver outstanding experiences, they must overcome various challenges while taking a creative approach to crafting hybrid event programs.