GLOBAL: TSA officially declared peanut butter as a liquid. In turn, Holiday Inn Express, an IHG Hotels & Resorts brand, has launched its limited Carry On Peanut Butter Program. The playful initiative is encouraging guests to take the single-serve peanut butter offered during the hotels' breakfasts to-go for a TSA-approved peanut butter fix. 

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants is launching a new global guest amenity program— Kimpton Plant Pals Program—in honor of Earth Day on April 22. The program will provide a regionally sourced plant to all guest rooms that request it. Dubbed a "plant pal," each plant comes with a unique-yet-playful name tag—for example, Morgan Treeman—and special care instructions. This program was developed in partnership with Plant Kween, a Brooklyn-based Black, queer, and non-binary influencer who specializes in all-things plants. Kween helped to curate a selection of native plants for each Kimpton property to offer. 

AMELIA ISLAND, FLA.: Omni Amelia Island is hosting its seventh annual Fish to Fork culinary weekend from May 11-14. The culinary competition will feature Top Chef alumni, who will each contribute to a weekend of unique gastronomic experience. Naturally, guests can expect a slew of food-focused events on the schedule, like a welcome dinner, fishing excursion, and cocktail experience. Guests can choose between a VIP package, weekend package, main event package, and main event tickets. A full schedule, chef lineup, and tickets are available on Omni Amelia Island's website.

LAS VEGAS:  Event technology conference and exhibition Event Tech Live is headed to Las Vegas's The Expo at EMCLV April 26-27 with headline sponsor Hubilo. The two-day event will be jam-packed with education sessions, panels, and roundtables that will address ethics in AI, selecting the right one-on-one meeting program for events, future forecasting, insights from Google's Experience Institute, and more. Attendees can expect to hear from executives at the likes of Zoom, EventMobi, Google, Hard Rock International, and MPI, just to name a few. Guests are also welcome to take part in a networking, poker-infused bar crawl—dubbed The Royal Crawl—on April 26. A full lineup of events, plus more details on the exhibitor floorplan and hosted buyer program, as well as tickets to the conference and bar crawl, are available on Event Tech Live's website.

NEW YORK: Luthun, a progressive American restaurant in Manhattan's East Village, has debuted a new tasting menu, dubbed Tour de Force. It was curated by chef partners Nahid Ahmed and Arjuna Bull to reflect both of their culinary backgrounds, and features 10 courses of varying international foods and cultures—as seen through a South Asian lens. Each Tour de Force is served for about three weeks before being completely redeveloped, apart from one signature course. The multi-course menu runs for $172 per diner, and additional costs for wine pairing options is on offer, but varies.