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Move over, New York, D.C., and San Francisco. Meeting planners tasked with bringing together VIP groups are shifting their focus to unexpected destinations like Louisville.

AI is transforming the event experience for attendees, sponsors, and organizers. This report uncovers crucial insights for anyone looking to invest in an AI-powered event experience.

Meeting planners are rethinking conference networking. Here’s how Louisville is creating more experiential attendee connections.

The DMO's role in the meetings industry is expanding: Visit Atlantic City is showing what it looks like when a destination partner moves from the margins to the center of event execution.

More planners are focused on what can happen between sessions and venues. Austin’s past year of hosting more than 1,100 meetings without a convention center offers a blueprint for building better experiences around those moments.

Your attendees expect to be able to interact with content on their terms: in their native languages and on their own devices. Wordly’s AI-powered translation and captioning platform makes that lofty expectation a reality — often for a significant discount versus traditional interpretation services.

As costs rise, meetings that keep attendees engaged beyond the opening and closing sessions are the ones most likely to win executive buy-in.

Vienna already ranks among the world’s leading destinations for international programs — but the city is investing even further in the experiences and infrastructure planners increasingly prioritize, including new luxury hotels, immersive off-site venues, and culinary experiences.

A new guide from Skift Meetings and Louisville Tourism looks at how the city’s recent transformation is changing how meetings are designed.

In response to global uncertainty and pricing pressures, some medical meeting planners are prioritizing destinations that can reduce risk around attendance and engagement — and the largest city in Victoria, Australia is increasingly part of that mix, combining accessibility with a deep base of medical expertise.

Anaheim’s family-friendly reputation is maturing as major industry events choose the destination for an expanding portfolio of immersive environments that deliver high-impact, personalized experiences

For planners under pressure to deliver stronger engagement and clearer ROI, destinations like Fort Myers - Islands, Beaches and Neighborhoods are expanding the role of beachfront meetings beyond passive relaxation into more active, experience-driven programming. Think manatee-spotting kayaking tours for team building, outdoor breakout sessions at the former homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and more.