Destinations

Choosing the right destination can make or break your event. The perfect venue isn’t just about location but also about creating the right atmosphere, securing the best deal, and ensuring a seamless experience for attendees.

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At Skift Meetings, we bring you expert insights on how to:

  • Partner effectively with venues to get the best service and support.
  • Discover the most innovative hotels and event spaces worldwide.
  • Enhance attendee experience with the right destination strategy.

From luxury hotels to unconventional venues, we showcase exceptional options for your event – whether it’s a corporate retreat, conference, or large-scale industry gathering.

Explore top event destinations and get insider tips on how to get the most out of each unique setting.

Destinations

The Dry Hire Venue Guide

Although there are certainly many venues out there that can provide everything that an eventprof could need to cater for and invigorate guests there are also times when a higher level of flexibility and control is required. For such occasions, event planners can look to ‘dry hire’ a venue, which if planned carefully will offer the freedom they need to create a very special event.
Jack Baugh |
Destinations

3 Essentials Successful Eventprofs Look for in Venues

When it comes to events, meetings and conferences, delegates are looking for a lot more than what happens on the tradeshow floor or during a keynote. The standard convention layout is changing – events today rely on a venue that offers flexibility with the opportunity to build experiences that extend beyond the event itself.
Halifax Convention Centre + Skift Meetings |
Destinations

5 Weird and Wonderful Venues to Tempt and Tantalize

While meetings and events are a normal part of everyone’s private and professional life, some of us are privileged to make our living in this sector. For us there’s both an art and a science to meeting and event planning and the choice of location or venue is crucial as it will inform so much of the event’s identity and impact so much on its outcome.
Padraic Gilligan |
Destinations

5 Steps to Green Hotel Site Selection

Event planners are used to “Triple A” site selection: looking for accessibility, availability and affordability. But what do you look for when you want to host an event that prioritizes sustainability? The following blog post provides a few steps you can consider to integrate sustainability into hotel site selection.
Shawna McKinley |
Destinations

3 Hotel Venues that Dazzle and Delight

Hotels played a vital role for decades as the first point of call for planners seeking a seamless, convenient location for their meetings and events needs. They provided, under one roof and with a single invoice, seamless access to large and small events spaces and offered ancillary elements such as AV, guest bedrooms and catering. It was an easy, comfortable, safe purchase but rarely did the venue element dazzle and delight attendees.
Padraic Gilligan |