Meeting Planning Trends and Solutions

Finding a special and unique destination for an event or an incentive trip is always at the top of mind for meeting professionals. Have you considered taking your next event at sea? Join FICP and Royal Caribbean Group to learn about new trends and destinations with cruising, best practices for cruising, the uniqueness and value of cruising for your event, and much more! This webinar is sponsored by Royal Caribbean Group.

Planning an in-person meeting in 2022 is much different than it was before. By finding creative ways to utilize outdoor space to navigating venue availability, and much more, planners have been given new challenges to work through when designing the event. Join the FICP Community as we discuss booking trends and best practices, leveraging your meeting space, finding the right venue, and much more. This webinar is brought to you by our 2022 Strategic Partners.

After hosting countless virtual events, many lessons were learned along the way. From content consumption to attendee engagement and how your audience learns best; many of these lessons will help transform and re-invent your upcoming meetings and events. During this webinar, we discuss the valuable lessons learned from the past few years and how to apply them for your future in-person meetings.

As the industry emerges from the pandemic, sustainability within live events is becoming a hot topic and a top priority with meeting professionals. As we look at the future of in-person meetings, site visits and more, how will this change the way we do business? Panelists will discuss: - How are venues adapting to this trend? - Will it become a mandate? - Will planners look at destination selection through a new lens with a focus on environmentally friendly and sustainable events? - How can a venue or DMO ensure they are staying abreast of this emerging trend? - How can sustainability be financially feasible for both planners and suppliers? After covering these questions, the panelists will have an open Q&A. Be sure to join to get your questions answered!

When it comes to selecting meeting menus, the choices meeting planners and their catering partners make are vital to the well-being of their attendees, budget and the planet. Sustainable food & beverage requires much more than calculating your carbon footprint. In lies a responsibility for making healthy and safe food choices for a large number of people while also maximizing budgets and minimizing waste. And while the COVID-19 pandemic enabled a return to more single use packaging and plastic in the short term, sustainability is still an achievable goal to maintain and improve your events. From incorporating organic products, minimizing transportation, minimizing waste and utilizing registration systems (and even more!), this session will provide key considerations for creating sustainable food and beverage programs for your events as well as resources to assist you.