s the cost of a business trip continues to increase, here are the most expensive MICE destinations for booking hotels and accommodation.

Recent research from Gambling N’ Go analyses the average cost of a MICE trip in Europe’s most popular cities. Here are the most affordable destinations…

The Collective by BCD Meetings & Events explains why hyper-personalising your incentive experiences is the key to increased engagement.

Holly Patrick recently visited Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, to take part in the Asia Pacific Incentives & Meetings Event (AIME). She was fortunate enough to participate in a one-day incentive-inspired tour of the city before waltzing onto AIME’s show floor. Here’s what she wants to share with you…

ith Stop Food Waste Day taking place on 26 April, Fitzroy Hutchinson, energy and sustainability manager at ICC Wales and The Celtic Collection, gives his advice on how event professionals can reduce food waste.

C&IT spoke with British GQ’s freelance event planner about high-end sustainability, outrageous party bags and her favourite celebs to party with.

Conveying tone over email is an age-old struggle, but how do Gen Z and Millennials deal with passive aggressive emails?

Registration for the 2023 M&IT Agency Challenge is now open. M&IT is inviting you to unlock your potential and celebrate the Agency Challenge’s 10th anniversary on 3-4 October 2023 at an all-new venue. Attendees will enjoy a two-day networking extravaganza at the Park Regis Birmingham, where they’ll experience an exciting line up of brand new challenges, educational sessions and excellent hospitality.

“It’s an awful lot harder to make money in this industry nowadays.” High-end experiential agency Noble Events has appointed a new managing director, as founder and current MD Penny Noble moves into a newly-created CEO role. Sarah Cox, the current deputy MD, moves up to take on the MD role, leading the business across both strategic office locations in the UK and Dubai. M&IT editor Paul Harvey caught up with Noble and Cox to discover what the changes mean for Noble Events, how the company will be evolving, and just how Penny Noble sees the state of the sector at the moment, after having been – in her own words – “launching cars for 35 years”.

We Invented the Weekend, a brand new festival, based in Salford, with a bold claim within its name and, as co-founder Wayne Hemingway MBE points out “If you’re going to claim that a place invented the weekend, you better get it right”.

The global live touring industry once again descends on Evolution London for a record-breaking year for the sector’s favourite annual night out. It only seems like yesterday when Team TPi was rocking-up to Evolution London for the 2022 edition of the TPi Awards – truth be told, it hadn’t quite been 12 months since the previous year’s Awards were postponed to May due to COVID-19. However, if you were to think that the shortened gap between the two events would quell the flames of excitement for our annual soirée, you’d be sadly mistaken. With our new headline sponsor, Rock-it Global, the TPi Awards 2023 welcomed a staggering 1,736 people from the multifaceted live touring industry to celebrate the entire global events community.

As the Bank of England announces a rise in interest rates, we hear from Lionel Benjamin, Co-Founder at AGO Hotels, about the effect on the events industry.

An AV technology business specialising in outdoor cinema screens, sold out of flat screen TVs in anticipation of King Charles III’s coronation.

Following on from the international industry-wide survey conducted in November 2022, PLASA and #WeMakeEvents have now published the full report, which is now available to download for free.

PlugFest returned to Lille France from 7-9 March, bringing together lighting professionals from across Europe to test products and learn about the latest protocols and standards.

Germany-based titans of the live music industry CTS Eventim and Deutsche Entertainment AG (DEAG) have posted record-breaking financial results for 2022.