The annual rankings recognize the top-performing hotels for group business, as well as the region’s most coveted meeting destinations

MEXICO – May 20, 2025 – Cvent, an industry-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, today released its lists of the Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for Latin America and the Caribbean. Cvent’s rankings have become indispensable for event planners, highlighting top-of-the-line cities, hotels, and venues for all their event needs. The annual lists are also issued regionally for North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East & Africa. This is the first year that Latin America and the Caribbean have been featured in their own list. Cvent also unveiled a new Top Lists category, the Top Venues and Vendors, which analyzes data from the Cvent Vendor Marketplace. 

Bharet Malhotra, Cvent Executive Vice President of Hospitality Cloud, stated, "Our global Top Meeting Hotels and Top Meeting Destinations lists are essential resources for planners seeking exceptional places and venues for their events and the expansion of our lists to include Latin America & Caribbean highlights the continued increase in planners sourcing to the region. Meetings and events generate substantial economic benefits for local communities, so it is imperative that hotels and convention and visitors bureaus actively champion their regions, engage planners at an early stage, and prioritize RFP responses to attract more group business." 

The destination and hotel rankings are determined based on insights gleaned from the more than $18B of global sourcing and request-for-proposal (RFP) activity through Cvent’s sourcing platforms in 2024, including a record-breaking $16.5B through the Cvent Supplier Network, one of the world’s largest group hotel and venue sourcing marketplaces. 

Cvent Top Meeting Destinations | Latin America & Caribbean

Cancun/Riviera Maya, Mexico (#1), San Juan, Puerto Rico (#2), and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (#3) stand out as top destinations for event planners seeking unique excursions, luxury resorts, urban amenities, and a more relaxed environment. These destinations cater to varied event needs, from cultural immersion to luxury and adventure, ensuring a memorable experience for all attendees.

Top 10 Meeting Destinations

Cvent Top Meeting Hotels | Latin America & Caribbean

The JW Marriott Hotel Mexico City Polanco took this year’s number one spot. Recent renovations delivered 2,800 sq. ft. of reimagined meeting spaces all of which are rooted in the social, physical, and historical elements of Polanco. Attendees increasingly expect a true sense of place when traveling for meetings and events, so enhancements like these can help properties stand out and attract more group business.

Top 10 Meeting Hotels 

To view all Cvent Top Meeting Destinations and Cvent Top Meeting Hotels worldwide, click here.

Methodology

For Cvent Top Meeting Destinations, Cvent evaluated 14,000+ cities worldwide listed on the Cvent Supplier Network. Activity was tracked between January 2024 and December 2024. Rankings were determined by a set of qualifying criteria, including: the number of total room nights booked through the Cvent Supplier Network; the number of unique electronic request-for-proposals (RFPs) sent through the marketplace to venues within the city; the total value of the RFPs submitted; and the actual awarded value for meetings booked.

For Cvent Top Meeting Hotels, Cvent evaluated hotel properties that generated business through the Cvent Supplier Network between January 2024 and December 2024. The properties were ranked according to various criteria, including total requests for proposals (RFPs), awarded RFPs, total room nights, awarded room nights, major metropolitan area market share, conversion rate, and response rate. The criteria are designed to accurately reflect the top meeting hotels in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific regions.

About the Cvent Supplier Network 

The Cvent Supplier Network features more than 340,000 hotels, resorts and special event venues, serving as one of the world’s largest and most accurate databases of detailed venue information. Event planners sourced more than $18 billion of group business through Cvent’s sourcing networks in 2024 alone. The Cvent Supplier Network is part of Cvent’s suite of solutions that tens of thousands of hotels, CVBs and destination management organizations rely on to reach more planners, attract group business to their properties & destinations, and directly engage with Cvent’s global network of more than 145,000 event professionals. Cvent technology enables hotels and venues to efficiently manage their group and corporate travel business, increase revenue, and deliver more profitable results.