Chris Klauda
Chris Klauda is senior director of STR Market Insights.
What Meeting Planners Want
Unique experiences and award-winning restaurants are the shiny new penny in the meetings-and-events industry. However, what meeting planners really want are the basics.
Based on the responses in STR’s Destination Meeting Assessment Program (DestinationMAP) 2019...
What Drives Meeting Planners in Site Selection?
Group business is alive and well around the country. Demand increased 2.1 percent for the first half of 2018, and rates have grown consistently on an annual basis since the Great Recession in the...
Meeting Planning Insights: Takeaways from STR’s Destination MAP
A comprehensive study of more than 800 meeting planners in North America, the Destination Meeting Assessment Program (Destination MAP) provides a detailed description of planners’ preferences and their perceptions of 40 North American markets...