Articles tagged “event planner”

Skift Meetings evaluated 3 leaders in meeting industry recruitment – and found that each has its own unique niche.

The events industry has some seriously outdated ideas that just won’t die. We’ve all heard the same old event planner clichés — big venues, fancy galas, and planners living the glamorous life.

Few people wake up one morning and decide they want to be a planner. Most literally fall into the meetings industry, like these 10 planners did.

So few people in the general public understand what meeting planners do. We can’t even decide what to call ourselves. Why does meeting planning have such an identity crisis?