Cooking-Oil Recycling Continues to Grow
Pacific Biodiesel is working with close to 30 hotels in Hawaii, as well as hundreds of restaurants, to convert used cooking oil into diesel fuel. ...
APEX/ASTM Green Meetings Standards Now Available for Purchase
New green meeting standards produced by the Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) and the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) were released on February 16....
Post Con: After Hours With Cindy D’Aoust, New COO of Meeting Professionals International
Cindy D’Aoust, vice president, shared services & business development, Maxvantage. Beginning April 9, 2012, D’Aoust will take over as chief operating officer, Meeting Professionals International....
Unpanels: A Virtual Success Story
What happens if the face-to-face meeting you want to translate to a virtual event doesn’t follow a standard format? Can an "unconference" be virtual?...
PCMA Creates New Portal for Presentations and Great Ideas
The Professional Convention Management Association has a new online system for submitting presentation proposals....
Leverage in Hotel Negotiation: Where You Have It, Where You Don’t
Understanding hotels' profit centers is key for meeting planners to effectively use their programs' leverage....
Commentary: Why Live Events “Don’t Need No Stinking Smart Phones”
The argument for understanding the technology we bring on site recently received passionate support from an unlikely source: Mark Cuban, online media magnate and owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks....
9 Ways to Boost Brain Power at Meetings
Conference Company Crusades Against Child Sex Trafficking
Nix Conference & Meeting Management has helped to create the first Meeting Planner’s Code of Conduct to fight child sex trafficking at hotels....
Welsh to Head Merged Convention Bureau in Chicago
The Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau is merging with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, a move that will free up funds to promote the city....
Commentary: Sustainable Meeting Standards—Sorting Through Alphabet Soup
Time and effort that will be needed to put the full menu of sustainable meeting standards into practice....
U.S. Travel to Educate Lawmakers to Protect the Meetings Industry
The U.S. Travel Association has launched a new campaign to raise awareness in Congress about the importance of meetings and incentive travel to the economy. ...
How to Be a Meetings Advocate
As a former legislative staffer and politician, meetings industry consultant Roger Rickard knows how government works. He knows firsthand how citizens can have an impact by making their voices heard, and he is sharing that information with meeting professionals...
Association Sponsorships Grow, but at a Below-Average Rate
Sponsorship dollars for North American associations grew in 2011, but at a rate that’s below the national average, according to the IEG Sponsorship Report....
Korea Proclaims 2012 Convention Year
Korea wants to raise its profile as a meetings destination and is turning its focus to improving the support and servicing of visiting groups....
Commentary: Are Conference Center Expansions a Boon or a Bane?
It’s never been more important for the industry to get its analysis right, rather than assuming that every convention center expansion is an automatic winner....
Obama Travel Initiatives Met with Praise
President Barack Obama announced new initiatives aimed at boosting the economy by increasing the number of international visitors who travel to the United States each year....
Kalahari Resort Sandusky Expands Ohio Convention Facility
Kalahari Resort Sandusky, Ohio, officially debuted results of a 10-month, $22 million project in January....
Commentary: PCMA General Session Walks the Talk
PCMA made a gutsy decision to blow up its opening general session and rebuild it from the ground up....
New Network for Virtual Content Launches
Online event marketing agency bXb Online is creating a hub for virtual meetings content. ...
Mega Convention Center Proposed for Queens, New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed building a 3.8 million-square-foot convention center in Queens....
TED Founder Talks Meetings at PCMA
TED founder Richard Saul Wurman engaged the audience at the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2012 Convening Leaders conference....
PCMA Pushes Innovation at San Diego Conference
The Professional Convention Management Association's 2012 Convening Leaders annual meeting in San Diego, January 8–11, incorporates the live with the virtual, and a variety of format innovations....
“ObamaCare” Takes a Bashing at PCMA
New Hampshire Republicans weren’t the only ones lamenting “ObamaCare” on the eve of the nation’s first primary. ...
Commentary: Sustainable F&B Is Hard to Define
If you’re looking at food and beverage as an area where you can make your meetings more sustainable, it may be tougher than you think....
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