Small events come with big advantages, like being able to more easily foster a sense of community and connection.

Although large-scale events and conventions continue, smaller meetings are being celebrated for all they have to offer.

For corporate meeting planners, the word of the year is — reconnection. After years of social distancing and remote work, people are ready to reconnect. Though, they may not be quite ready to do that in large groups.

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, pioneer of minimalist design and architecture, did not have small meetings in mind when he famously proclaimed that less is more. But he could have.

The revenue from small groups has become so important to most hotels that they are hiring small meetings sales specialists.

From lead times to demonstrating meeting value, meeting pros offer their best tips and advice for success.

Regular group business is certainly of interest to hoteliers, and that’s just what small meetings offer, especially in recent years.

Planners are increasingly going glamping — taking their meetings and incentives to the mountain peaks, lunching around a campfire and teambuilding on the trail.

Always an inventive group, planners are engineering the intangible: intimate meetings that spark genuine connections among attendees.

The dark clouds are lifting. The outlook is brighter and meetings are back. For the first time in a number of years, the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Business Barometer report reveals significant, uplifting shifts in the meeting and event industry. During the last few years of budget cuts and poor economic conditions, savvy meeting professionals […]