ASAE Annual Meeting Numbers Way Up
ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership had a 13 percent attendance spike for its Annual Meeting and Exposition, held August 21–24 in Los Angeles, with more than 5,500 attendees, which includes those who participated in the meeting virtually...
Denver’s First Green Seal–Certified Hotel: Kimpton’s Hotel Monaco Denver
Kimpton’s Hotel Monaco Denver has become the first hotel in Denver and the third in Colorado to attain the Silver Green Seal Certification. ...
Best Meeting Technology to be Recognized at EIBTM
One of the most-watched awards in the meetings industry is the meeting technology company recognized in the annual Worldwide Technology Watch by EIBTM...
Destination Hotels & Resorts to Manage The Villas at Snowmass Club
Destination Hotels & Resorts has acquired The Villas at Snowmass Club in Colorado, and will manage and market the property in conjunction with the rest of the company’s Destination Resorts Snowmass collection....
Most Exhibitors Have Cut Back, Some With Regrets
Four out of five exhibitors (81 percent) have scaled back their trade show participation over the past year due to the economy, and many are regretting their decision, according to a new report from Champion Exposition Services....
Exhibition Industry Stats Drop for Ninth Straight Quarter
For the ninth consecutive quarter, the CEIR Index, which tracks metrics in the exhibition industry, has posted year-over-year declines, dropping 1.4 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2009. ...
OMG 27% of U R Tweeting!
Survey reveals meeting professionals' use of social media, smartphones, and blogs....
Meeting Association Powwow Planned
Not Your Father's ASAE
Putting Meetings and Travel Center Stage at Mid-Term Elections
Meetings industry professionals have an opportunity to ask lawmakers such as Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.; and Florida Governor Charlie Crist about their positions on travel and meetings-related issues through U.S. Travel's new initiative that seeks to thrust the industry into the 2010 elections....
BestCities Celebrates 10th Year, Names New Chairwoman
Eight worldwide destination marketing organizations have spent 10 years creating service standards and marketing best practices for international meetings....
International Business Travel on the Upswing
Despite a dramatic decrease in the number of U.S. business travelers headed overseas in 2009, the first four months of 2010 are showing signs of life....
Seoul, London, and Sydney Create Meetings Partnership
The Future Convention Cities Intitiative will gather top worldwide meeting destinations to share research best practices....
Texts and the City: MPI New England Loves SCVNGR Event
For this year’s annual summer outing, the New England Chapter of Meeting Professionals International found an activity that engaged both buyers and suppliers, encouraged networking and interaction, was on the cutting edge of technology—and also got high marks for being a blast. Check it out....
Best and Worst Cities for Travel Taxes: New NBTA Study
The National Business Travel Association Foundation and Concur, the Redmond, Wash.-based provider of spend-management services, have produced their annual report on taxes and fees on travel services, revealing the U.S. cities with the highest and lowest tax burden. ...
App Overload? New Portal Sorts Them for Meeting Pros
A new site focused on smartphone apps for meeting professionals has just launched at MeetingApps.com. The portal, listing about 500 apps, was created by Kirsten Strand, CMP, CITE, CMM, CEO at Invenia, a Vancouver, British Columbia–based site selection and meeting consultancy....
7 Reasons Why Organizers Need to Develop Meeting Apps Now
Technology forecaster and business strategist Daniel Burrus believes that meeting planners who aren’t developing mobile technology apps (short for applications) are making a big mistake. ...
Tool Time: Travel Sites, Travel Apps, Travel Ease
On the road again. Summertime is travel time for so many of us, which makes it a great time to share some Web tools and phone apps designed to help us travel more efficiently, whether for planning meetings, attending meetings, or for pleasure trips....
Virtual Meeting Use: It’s Nearly Unanimous
A remarkable 96 percent of meeting and event planners report that their organizations use virtual meetings solutions—either Web-based meetings, videoconferencing, or TelePresence. That finding comes from a comprehensive and wide-ranging study on meeting policy and spending released earlier this summer by travel-management giant Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Minnetonka, Minn. ...
Why Association Virtual Meetings Are Like Print Publishers
No one wants to pay for virtual meetings. What's an association meeting manager to do...
The Promise of Hybrid Meetings
For Christopher Gribbs, managing director, convention, at the American Institute of Architects, the “aha!” moment for the potential of virtual meetings came at the 2009 AIA Annual Conference in San Francisco....
How Would a UAE BlackBerry Ban Affect Meetings?
Early this month, the United Arab Emirates, home of up-and-coming meeting, convention, and incentive destinations Dubai and Abu Dhabi, announced that it would shut down BlackBerry data service on October 11 if an agreement isn't reached that allows the country's regulators to tap into encrypted BlackBerry messages. ...
Choice CEO: Group Biz is Key Growth Area
Stephen Joyce, CEO of Choice Hotels, explains his company’s group strategy...
Association Meetings’ 2010 Inner Circle Award Winners
Five Insider Tips to L.A.
Headed to ASAE's annual meeting in L.A.? We've got some tips for your time outside the meeting room....
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