March 26, 2025
Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa announced its new “Spring in Paradise” meeting experience, featuring customizable meeting venues overlooking the beach front, engaging teambuilding activities, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
March 24, 2025
The Elser Hotel & Residences, a 49-story tower in downtown Miami, recently introduced new meeting and event spaces.
March 21, 2025
Jackson County Tourism Development Authority (JCTDA) has launched a new marketing brand campaign, “More Peak Moments.” Inspired by the county’s eight mountain towns—Balsam, Cashiers, Cherokee, Cullowhee, Dillsboro, Glenville, Sapphire, and Sylva—the new campaign invites visitors to embrace their own “peak moments” in the western North Carolina destination.
March 19, 2025
Despite the uncertainty among much of the industry due to rising costs, staff shortages, and competition for venues in the past year, 2025 is on an upward trend, according to responses from ConventionSouth’s annual CVB & Planner Relationship Survey.
March 18, 2025
When it comes to planning a successful event, the relationship between a meeting planner and the host city’s convention and visitors bureau (CVB) is the ultimate power partnership.
March 17, 2025
Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center has debuted recently completed renovations, including a new lobby, remodeled restaurants, renovations to two major event ballrooms, and more than 1,400 of the resort’s 1,718 guest rooms.
March 14, 2025
Dolly Parton’s Great Smoky Mountains theme park will kick off its 40th anniversary season on March 15. It will include special events, new celebrations, and several returning favorite experiences for guests to relive.
March 12, 2025
The value of in-person connections has never been higher for today’s corporate meetings. More than ever, today’s meeting planners recognize the need to bolster efforts to engage customers and employees outside the walls of their business locations.
March 12, 2025
Meredith Dollevoet has enjoyed a long career in events and tourism, advancing from front-desk clerk to director of sales for a hotel in Wisconsin. After moving to Georgia, she continued working in similar roles for hotels, including contract work and opening Courtyard by Marriott Cartersville. Dollevoet fell in love with the area, its people, and the CVB—and created a proposal of how she could help the CVB grow.
March 12, 2025
The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) on March 3 announced the appointment of Kevin Carey as the AHLA Foundation’s president and CEO. In a press release, AHLA said Carey will continue to serve as COO of AHLA.
