The CDC announced March 8, 2021 new guidelines allowing Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to safely resume some social activities. The guidelines are based on the latest science and include: Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors wi...

At ALHI's annual staff meeting in January, 50 attendees gathered for two days of informational sessions at the Fairmont Hotel in Austin, TX. In addition to maintaining CDC guidelines such as physical distancing, mask wearing and hand sanitizing stations, our Vice Pr...

Since mid-2020, ALHI has planned and executed several face-to-face events ranging in size, location, duration, and format including hybrid experiences with both in-person and online audiences engaging together. We've shared our learnings, and engaged with planners a...

ALHI member hotels have been busy developing innovative amenities during the COVID-19 pandemic. They've reinvented outdoor dining, wellness and meeting spaces and created in-room fitness programs. One hotel even built a production set that's designed to stream mee...

Lessons from the trenches of hybrid meeting planning 8. Your face-to-face event must follow every safety protocol according to the CDC.  7. Don't let technology rule the show. Sarah Soliman Daudin of Soliman Productions is a former broadcast television...