MPI to Offer Chapter Management. First Up: New England
Meeting Professionals International has created a new association-management division to manage some of its chapters, starting with New England....
First Training Session on New Green Meeting Standards
Meeting planners and suppliers can finally dig into the industry's long-awaited sustainable meeting standards. While the new APEX green standards won't officially launch until September or later, the first training program on how to use them will be held July 24, in Vancouver, British Columbia, just prior to Meeting Professionals International World Education Conference....
A "Magic" Transformation at Washington Hilton
After a $150 million restoration that includes a new exhibition hall, an in-house conference center, and expanded meeting rooms, the Washington Hilton was reintroduced to meeting planners and customers with a star-studded grand reopening celebration on May 25...
Study Looks at the Performance of AMCs in Recession
Does the management model of an association make a difference when it comes to financial performance? A new study has found that more standalone associations operated at a deficit in 2008...
PCMA Co-Locates with AIBTM, Virtual Edge
The Professional Convention Management Association has announced that it will co-locate its 2011 Education Conference with AIBTM (The Americas Meetings and Events Exhibition) next June in Baltimore, and it has struck a deal to have the Virtual Edge Summit, a meeting about virtual meetings, co-located at PCMA's annual meeting in Las Vegas, January 9-12....
Commentary: Five Simple Steps to Protect Online Privacy at Meetings
A recent survey on Internet privacy and reputation management points to some interesting twists on the road to integrating meetings with social media. ...
Major Meeting Survey Shows Planner Optimism for 2010/2011
U.S. meeting professionals are planning more meetings, canceling fewer, and expecting higher attendance than they had last year. These are among the findings in a new survey of more than 500 U.S. meeting planners that shows an industry on the road to recovery....
A Think Tank To Meetings in 2010 and Beyond
As we enter the second half of the second year of the worst recession the travel industry has ever experienced, we know that associations-and their meetings-may never be the same...
Singapore, Brussels, Paris Were Tops for Meetings in 2009
More than half the meetings of international organizations tracked by the Union of International Associations were held in Europe in 2009. But the country pulling the biggest single share was the United States. Find out what European and Asian locations topped the cities list....
Event Organizers and the International Challenge
Though international travel to the United States was up 15 percent in the first two months of 2010 over the same period in 2009, it will take a lot more positive news to reverse a 10-year downward trend, characterized as the "lost decade" by Roger Dow, president and chief executive officer at the U.S. Travel Association, who spoke at the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum on June 2 in Washington, D.C....
Commentary: 6 Ways You Can Help Prevent the Next Oil Spill
As images of spreading oil plumes, devastated Gulf Coast communities, and dead seabirds fill our TV screens, it's easy to warp back and forth between a sense of futility and an urge to assign responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe....
The Next Big Thing for Meetings? Convention 2020 Will Show You
By identifying past and current drivers of change in the world at large and in meeting planning in particular, Rohit Talwar of Fast Future is leading the Convention 2020 research project, whose aim is no less than showing the meetings industry the path to a successful future....
Will Hotel Rates Rise Sooner Than Expected?
With the luxury segment leading the way, hotels' average daily rate may rise more quickly than previously projected....
Social Media for Meetings: Two New Resources
Creating and executing a social-media strategy has become a must in the meeting and event planning process. For those learning the ropes, two new resources were announced in early June: a free white paper, produced by TBA Global, and an online certificate course through The International School of Hospitality. ...
Web Sites and E-Mail Still Tops for Lead Gen
It's all about the leads. That's the word from a new survey of 500 technology industry marketing professionals, conducted for Unisfair, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based virtual events platform. More than two thirds of respondents (68 percent) said leads are their top marketing priority, far exceeding those who pointed to brand awareness or customer retention as their main concern (16 percent each)....
Mobile Makes Meeting Inroads: 5 New Apps
Mobile phones are changing the meeting experience, from how we interact with a destination to the way we register on site. Here are five new applications that illustrate the trend....
Gulf Coast Destinations Navigate Oil Spill
BP officials are reporting some progress in funneling oil from the broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but the environmental disaster is far from over. While an increasing number of meeting groups booked into Gulf Coast hotels are canceling because of the spill, destinations along the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast are working hard to promote the fact that their beaches—and their meeting rooms—are open for business....
Exhibitions See Striking Rebound from 2009 Lows
The exhibition industry is rebounding in 2010 as a majority of event organizers say their shows are growing this year compared to last, according to the Exhibition and Convention Executive Forum's annual ECEF Pulse survey, which tracks four major metrics—number of exhibitors, net square feet of exhibit space, attendance, and sponsorship sales. ...
Chicago’s McCormick Place Labor Reform Law Passed
On May 7, the Illinois General Assembly overrode a veto by Governor Pat Quinn and passed a law designed to reduce labor costs and make Chicago more competitive as a convention destination. ...
ESTA Transition Will Be Complete By End of Summer
By the end of summer, all visitors from Visa Waiver Program countries will be required to use only the Electronic System for Travel Authorization. ...
Voices: What did you do to boost attendance for your 2010 meeting?
We are still dusting off our registration files to tally a final number for our show, but our number will definitely be up...
Commentary: A Link in the Chain of ROI
The U.S. Senate might be on the verge of maximizing the world’s ROI on a meeting that took place twelve-and-a-half years ago....
MPI Announces WEC Innovations
Booking 10 "Flash Point" speakers for one session is among the innovations at the 2010 Meeting Professionals International World Education Conference in July....
New Medical Mart and Convention Center Set for Cleveland
This fall, construction will begin on a $425 million project to update the 85-year-old Cleveland Convention Center and build a new medical mart next door....
IMEX America Continues to Make a Splash
At a press conference May 26, the second day of IMEX Frankfurt, IMEX Chairman Ray Bloom announced yet another new supporter of IMEX America: incentive powerhouse Maritz...
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