Meetings, Events, Exhibitions & Convention Management SIG

The Meetings, Events, Exhibitions, and Conventions Management (MEECM) SIG provides opportunities for cross-collaboration, information sharing, and bridge building across all segments of the hospitality industry and interested groups (e.g., teachers, researchers, industry/practitioners) in the multi-faceted area of meetings and events.

Chair Thomas Padron California State University, East Bay  [email protected]

Vice Chair Donna Lee Sullins Texas A&M University  [email protected]

 A LETTER FROM LEADERSHIP

Greetings to all fellow meeting and event faculty friends!

I hope you all are having an incredible Summer so far! I wanted to send you the cool things I see going on to keep on your radar - if you have anything to add globally please send it my way! 

Research-Related

The Journal of Convention and Event Management (JCET) is releasing a call for papers related to the future of our industry post-COVID. Be on the lookout for that special issue announcement next week. If you are interested and do not see the information, you can reach out to special issue guest editors Shawn Jung at [email protected] or myself. 

Classroom/Student/Curriculum-Related

PCMA just changed their North American Student competition to be global! Many faculty build this into their classrooms as part of a project and the results are always incredible. If you are interested in more information, you can find it here: https://www.pcma.org/chapters/student-chapters/student-competition/ 

To all of you incredible people – I have enjoyed seeing most of you online in Zoom meetings throughout the last couple of years. I wish you all the best throughout the summer and will talk to you in the Fall! Stay tuned for more fun as the year progresses and hope to see you at one of the events listed above!