Smart Meetings

Since 2002, Smart Meetings has been showcasing the best venues and destinations for meeting professionals. We are now two decades in running and proud to present the 21st annual Platinum Choice Awards.

Smart Meetings gathered together a roundup of several events happening around the world to celebrate the holiday season and the New Year!

South America is making a name for itself with modern convention centers, high end luxury hotels and vibrant cultural experiences for attendees to expand their horizons and create meaningful memories.

Smart Meetings went to FICP and sent back this report from beyond the horizon, touching on topics like the disruption from artificial intelligence, ever-increasing costs and shrinking teams.

Oakland offers a vibrant, diverse intersection of people, experiences and wide gamut of available venues that offer something for any event or meeting under the Bay Area sky.

It’s now time to have a frank conversation about some of the bad habits we've brought forward post-pandemic. To be fair, most of these were bad habits we had before the pandemic.

Each year, we celebrate the exceptionalism of supplier-partners who advance the entire industry, their communities and the individual meetings that come into their gravitational pull.