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Smart Meetings breaks down the recently released ExCel Sustainability Strategy and the venue's impact towards green meetings.

Wellness is not only about a one-time activity you include at a meeting; it’s a whole lifestyle and work-style. The best wellness articles of this year showed that wellness can show up as a wide variety of meeting programming, as well as ways to rethink how meetings can be done.

The negative impact of waste generated at trade shows, and events generally, on the environment has been an ongoing concern and challenge in the industry. As attendees become more interested in a more sustainable future, event planners must adapt and provide more regenerative and sustainable approaches to events.

CES has been hosting its annual show in Las Vegas since 1978 and is scheduled to continue hosting there until 2039. Smart Meetings spoke with CES Show Director John Kelly to find out what it takes to host such a large event year after year.

Get to know Courtney Mesmer, CMP, in this exclusive profile. In this Spotlight Series, Smart Meetings shares stories of successful CMPs.

Smart Meetings hosted meeting planners and hotel and destination partners for three days of education and networking in the Caribbean at The Westin Beach Resort & Spa Frenchman’s Reef.