Orlando

A whole new Orlando is ready to welcome groups in 2024 and beyond.

Orlando has become Florida’s Tomorrowland, and planners’ favorite global resort destination. It continues to change and expand — marveling and drawing attendees looking to explore new worlds and ways of mixing business with pleasure.

For many planners, Orlando is their number one destination in the U.S.

With beautiful, warm weather and a robust hotel community, this Central Florida city makes meetings a success.

Orlando may be globally renowned for the magic and fantasy it conjures up to an almost unimaginable scale. But its true forte is providing an unequivocally serious business destination for meetings and conventions. Of course, there’s still magic — this is Orlando after all — but it takes the form of ROI-igniting options and a […]

For more than a year now, the message from the state of Florida to meetings planners and vacationers alike has been loud and clear: We’re open for business.

Visit Orlando has a new CEO and president, Casandra Matej, longtime head of the San Antonio CVB, who formally took over in Orlando early this year.

According to Business Review USA and Visit Orlando, 83 percent of meeting professionals say attendance spikes when meetings rotate to Orlando.

Orlando works hard to continually reinvent itself, focusing on the key factors that are most important to planners.

When a hurricane that is forecast to be the most potentially catastrophic on record is headed for the city you’ve chosen as your annual meeting location, it’s not hard to imagine the apprehension a planner might feel in the hours before, during and after the storm.