By Nan Marchand Beauvois and R.V. Baugus
The Meetings Mean Business Coalition and Lets Meet There continues to focus on industry recovery and moving forward together. To that end, the organization’s are pleased to share a Meet Safe platform.
The platform, developed in partnership with Simpleview, is designed to showcase that with the proper 
adherence to state and city gathering limits and health and safety best practices, in-person and hybrid meetings and events can take place now and into the future.
Event hosts, hotels and venue operators, planners, destination marketing professionals and suppliers can submit detailed information about their in-person or hybrid event which will be showcased on this page.
This resource will help planners, future meeting hosts and attendees learn best practices for meetings and events and ultimately showcase how professional meetings and events are organized responsibly with health and safety top-of-mind.
IAVM is happy to share this resource with our members and believes it is important for to gather as many examples as possible across the U.S. The goal is to use this platform to advocate on behalf of meetings and business events in several ways:
Show companies that meetings are taking place and doing so safely by showcasing a multitude of examples.
Use this tool with our elected officials to prove that business meetings and events should not be classified as a generic “gathering.” End game is to ease the restrictions and limitations to meetings and business events across the U.S.
Please visit this page with as many details as possible. Check out the best practices for submissions here and reach out to Caroline Campbell ccampbell@ustravel.org with any questions.
Nan Marchand Beauvois is Senior Vice President, Membership and Industry Relations, GM ESTO, Managing Director MMBC for U.S. Travel Association.
