Wedding Planners

What Is The Hospitality & Tourism Summit Chicago?

The Summit is the premier event for the hospitality, tourism, and events industries. It features a trade show, educational sessions, and new additions like the Roundtable Networking Luncheon and Summit Excellence Awards including an award for Wedding, Meeting & Event Planners. Over 1,400 professionals—planners, social media influencers, concierges, media, hotel teams, and suppliers—attend to connect, learn, sell, and grow.

The Summit is your launchpad for growth. It provides the tools, vendor connections, leads, and knowledge to elevate your business, and your career.

Why Should Wedding Planners Attend?

Find new and exciting venues and vendors at the trade show
Position yourself as a player in the industry
Get better at the educational breakout sessions
Enjoy food and drink samples from some of Chicago's best and newest venues
Recharge your own batteries
NEW: meet social media influencers and media!
See and experience 3 different venues

Meet other wedding, meeting and event planners, concierges, social media influencers, media, and industry professionals
Keep yourself on the cutting edge with industry trends and insights
NEW: chance to win the Summit Planner Award
NEW: roundtable discussion luncheon for even more opportunities to connect & learn

83%

Of planners in attendance spent more than 3 hours at the show

90%

Of planners that attended rated the experience as “great” or better

17

Is the minimum, average number of new vendors or venues found by planners who attended

What Do Other Planners Say?

The Vistria Group
Stacy Kruczek
Executive Administrative Asst.

The Hospitality and Tourism Summit has given me the resources to succeed in my career. Thank you Ateema!

John Buck Corporation
Joan Hohs - Meeting Planner

I cannot thank you enough for hosting the Hospitality & Tourism Summit. As always, you outdid yourselves. I look forward to this event every year so I can reconnect with vendors and meet new ones. The speakers’ knowledge and excitement about the industry is contagious.

Bucom International
Kate Postle - Meeting Planner

I saw this as a great opportunity to network with local Chicago vendors and people I've seen at past networking events and now I get a chance to meet them in person.