The Meeting Professional | Meeting Professionals International

Welcome to the February Digital Edition of The Meeting Professional

Relevant, provocative and award-winning, MPI’s flagship publication highlights planner and supplier members while showcasing best practices, trends, destinations and industry leadership. It does all this through in-depth reporting and creative design.

The February issue includes our latest quarterly Meetings Outlook research, a special report on careers in the meeting industry and a spotlight on how the CAESARS FORUM is hosting safe in-person events ahead of MPI’s WEC Vegas this June.

Black History in the Making

Let us celebrate Black History Month with purpose, with commitment to acknowledge all that is good in our community, to right the wrongs and set ourselves on a path forward as a community. Let’s also strive to celebrate beyond the month of February.

Meetings Outlook

One year into the pandemic there’s growing optimism across all surveyed metrics—an optimism significantly based on the distribution of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Special Report: Careers

Many jobs in the meeting industry were wiped out or put on hold since the pandemic began. But as we learned from a variety of intrepid meeting professionals, relying an already versatile skillset, continuing to cultivate relationships and learning a few new tricks can lead to success during the pandemic and beyond.