A Spotlight on Conscious Leadership: A Modern Approach to Workplace Culture
In the wake of recent global challenges and a post-pandemic work market, a profound transformation took place in how we approach both personal and professional life.
How to Meet The Evolving Needs of Business Travelers
Tackling the Project-Based Work Segment with Innovation
How Digital Travel Management Programs Are Making Business Travel Personal Again
Hotels, travel companies and other travel providers are making notable investments to the digital journey for travelers, reshaping to offer an easier to use travel booking experience that removes traditional tension points.
Simple Solutions to Meet Organizational ESG Targets with Skift Meetings
With corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals taking centerstage, meeting and event professionals will need to prioritize stronger sustainability measures while carefully tracking their impact. Here are practical tools and resources that will help turn those goals into reality.
Four Proven Tactics to Modernize Your Meetings
In this easy read, we highlight trends to keep attendees in today’s world not just satisfied with a meeting or conference but ultimately glad they went. The secret sauce is respecting their time and making the notion of traveling to a meeting or conference anticipatory and exciting, not forced.
Three Insider Secrets to Recruit the Next Gen of Event Professionals from Skift Meetings
Advocating for the industry to shepherd in a new generation of hospitality and event professionals is integral to our long-term success. In this article, we hear from colleagues who consider their role in event planning career-fulfilling and life-affirming, and it’s invigorating to read.
Why Delegate Welfare Takes Top Priority in 2023
The workplace has changed dramatically over the last two years. As employers increasingly shift awayfrom centralized offices, there are fewer opportunities to work and connect in shared spaces. To build and strengthen strong interpersonal relationships, it’s now vital to incorporate intentional moments of connection in professional settings. Meeting planners play a key role in ensuring […]
3 New Trends that Should be on Every Corporate Travel Manager’s Radar
As the return of business travel picks up steam, brands must adapt and innovate to meet the speed of evolution. Given the rise of blended work and leisure trips, hotels are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of companies and their employees through collaboration, creativity, and diversification to shape the industry’s future.
The 2023 Global Industry Forecast and What It Means for Your Event Budget
For meeting planners and event managers globally, the biggest challenge now is to keep up with booming business while accounting for unpredictability and external market pressures. Demand is high and expected to fully rebound to 2019 levels in 2023¹, but rising inflation means that budgets will be stretched tighter than ever. Do planners need to […]
What Planners Can Expect in 2022, Plus Explaining the “Why?” to Stakeholders
The post-pandemic era presents many new challenges to the travel industry: adapting to a more distributed workforce; mitigating employee burnout; prospecting tight labor markets to attract and retain talent; and navigating the ongoing volatility within national and global markets. Despite these obstacles, however, business travel and in-person events are making a much faster recovery than […]