SmithBucklin Reorganizes Event Services Under Weaber
SmithBucklin has announced the reorganization of its meeting and event planning operation, consolidating units in Chicago and Washington, D.C., under Brad Weaber, who has been appointed to the new position of executive vice president, event services. ...
Commentary: Top 10 Meetings Resolutions for 2010
Happy new year, everyone! It’s pretty much mandatory for columnists to close the old year or begin the new one with wrap-ups, resolutions, or some other antidote to a slow news week. So stand by for 10 meetings resolutions for 2010....
New Name, Same Mission: The Sustainable Meetings Conference
Register by December 31 to get the early-bird rate for The Sustainable Meetings Conference, set for February in Denver....
Grassley Questions Associations About Industry Funding
Sen. Charles Grassley,R-Iowa, has asked 33 of the largest medical societies for detailed information on the funding they receive annually from pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies for everything from research to continuing medical education...
Two Major Initiatives Launched to Combat Negative Perception of Meetings
The Convention Industry Council and some of its organization members have partnered to launch two industry initiatives aimed at improving the image of meetings in the media and at government and policymaking levels...
Commentary: Time to Deliver Climate Solutions for Meetings and Events
It’s too soon to say whether world leaders now meeting in Copenhagen for the United Nations climate summit will reach a serious deal to control climate change. But whatever way things go over the next three days, there are changes ahead for meetings and conventions—an industry that is hugely dependent on cheap oil and coal, and is a major producer of carbon emissions. ...
Permanent Medical Trade Show Awaits Nashville Vote
Tourism officials in Nashville are eagerly anticipating a vote by the city council that could not only approve construction of a new convention center, but also clear the way for transforming the old convention center into the country’s first “medical mart”—a permanent trade show for medical equipment and supplies. ...
Climate Conference Aims to Shake Up Meetings Industry
We've got a behind-the-scenes report straight from the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, where meetings industry leaders hope to set the tone for sustainability, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization just announced its "Live the Deal" campaign for green travel....
The A-to-Z List for International Meeting Planning: Check it Twice!
Planning a meeting outside of your home country brings new challenges. Longtime global meeting professional Carol Krugman, CMP, CMM, has started to make a list of them, from A to Z. ...
Convention 2020: IMEX and ICCA Look Into the Crystal Ball
Partly to improve meeting and venue design and success and partly to avoid being caught flat-footed in the midst of future crises like the global downturn of the past 12 to 18 months, two major meetings organizations and a consulting firm have announced a research project called Convention 2020, which will consider the future of live events and venues....
New Online Reseller for Canceled Meeting Contracts
If you’re looking down the barrel of a big cancellation penalty, a new online service could help save your budget. MeetingTrader, a clearinghouse for canceled meeting space, expects to come out of its beta-test phase in the first quarter of 2010, but meeting professionals are already making use of the service to help resell their meeting contracts and mitigate their cancellation fees. ...
Cheap Internet from Trade Show Startup
San Francisco-based rade Show Internet, launched in May, has shipped out hundreds of its $299 plug-and-play Internet kits....
Industry Leaders to Obama: 7 Ways to Create More Jobs
With nearly 400,000 travel industry jobs lost in 2008 and 2009 as a result of the economic downturn, both the U.S. Travel Association and the American Hotel and Lodging Association are urging President Barack Obama to enact legislation that reverses that trend...
Why Not Replace 20 Percent of Business Trips with Videoconferences?
When a comment from an EU Commissioner prompted media headlines saying the European Union had declared war on business trips, much discussion ensued. We look at the subtleties behind the sound bites....
Describe an important change that you implemented in 2009 for your association meetings
We asked association meeting planners what they have changed in the past year. Find out what they have done for: sending RFPs, avoiding attrition charges, matching buyers and sellers at events, and going green....
Carina Bauer Promoted to CEO, IMEX Group
Carina Bauer now oversees the two IMEX shows, IMEX Frankfurt and IMEX America. ...
Convention Industry Council's 2010 Hall of Leaders Gala
The 16th Hall of Leaders Gala, the Convention Industry Council’s celebration of the meetings industry’s most influential people, will take place on Monday, January 11, at the Fairmont Dallas...
Hurt By Competition, Chicago Creates Convention Task Force
Stung by recent losses of major association meetings, leaders in Chicago have appointed a task force to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the way convention business is conducted in the city...
CEIR Index Falls in Third Quarter
The exhibition industry declined 13.5 percent in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2008, marking the sixth straight quarter that the industry has posted year-over-year drops, according to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research’s CEIR Index...
What the Distressed Hotel Market Means for Meetings
Hundreds of hotels around the country are struggling to survive in the down economy, and the trend has serious implications for meetings and meeting contracts....
Association Meetings Readers Say Worst is Behind Them
Our second-annual survey of the effects of the economy on Association Meetings readers confirms what has been observed since we did the first survey last November: 2009 was a very difficult year. There is some optimism for 2010, or at least a belief that the bottom has been reached: 38.5 percent of meeting planners believe 2010 attendance at their largest meeting will be better than 2009...
St. Paul CVA Official Receives First-Ever National Guard Award
Ted Davis, vice president of marketing and public affairs at the St. Paul (Minn.) Convention and Visitors Authority, was honored on November 21...
Thanksgiving Event Serves 4,500 at Washington, D.C., Convention Center
The Washington, D.C., Convention and Sports Authority and Safeway, Inc. celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday on November 25...
AIBTM Announces America Meetings Week Program
The Americas Incentive, Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition, the newest addition to Reed Travel Exhibitions’ stable of worldwide travel trade shows, has announced an America Meetings Week program to run concurrently with the exhibition, launching June 21-23, 2011, at the Baltimore Convention Center...
Commentary: Live or Virtual? Stem Cell Charter uses the Best of Both
It was launched at a face-to-face meeting, but built its momentum through a two-day online rally that attracted a small wave of attention from across North America and beyond...
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