Introduction
In-person conferences are returning in force this year, but reduced travel budgets and a patchwork of ever-changing coronavirus safety rules are creating headaches for planners.
Business travel is back. Again.
White-collar workers are packing their suitcases and boarding planes after a retreat from nonessential travel prompted by the Omicron variant. One of their first orders of business? Reconnecting with colleagues in their industry and, well, partying.
There is a growing desire among some lawyers, accountants and other professional-services workers to get back out into the world and start networking. The demand to do so is fueling a shift by conference organizers to a mixture of in-person and hybrid offerings from the largely virtual-only events of the past two years.
