MPI Sets Aggressive Education Agenda
At Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference, association officials announced the opening of MPI Global Training Centers at San Diego State University, CERAM Business School on the French Riviera, and Qatar Mice Development Institute in Qatar...
Industry Loses Joe Durocher, Friend and Teacher
Joseph F. Durocher, 61, Nottingham, N.H., associate professor of Hospitality Management at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics, Durham, N.H., lost his courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, July 18...
MPI Replaces Trade Show with Hosted Buyer Program
Meeting Professionals International has created a modified hosted-buyer program for its annual conference, MeetDifferent, scheduled for February 20–23 at Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico...
No Suspects Named in Florida Meeting Executive’s Murder
olice are still investigating the murder last week of meeting industry veteran Ben Novack, Jr...
Washington OKs Convention Center Headquarters Hotel
The 2.3 million-square-foot Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., is finally getting its headquarters hotel...
Maritz Inks Deal With Freeman
Maritz Travel Co. continues to build alliances, as evidenced by the recent announcement that it has partnered with Freeman as its preferred provider of audiovisual, multimedia, and creative services...
Meet Different and Get an Incredible Deal
When staff of Meeting Professionals International chose Cancun, Mexico, for the association’s 2010 MeetDifferent conference, it had many hotel options from which to choose. After several site inspections...
Acapulco: On Top of Safety
You can’t ignore the reports of violence in Acapulco. But you should get all the facts...
Does Mexico Still Motivate? Yes, When You Educate Attendees
The incentive conference had been booked for two years at a resort in Cancun. Then reports of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico began to surface, and then increase...
Los Cabos: Second Safest State in Mexico
Los Cabos comprises two small and very different towns—lively Cabo San Lucas and laid-back San Jose del Cabo—that are joined by a 20-mile corridor of seaside resorts. The area is in the midst of many new developments and upgrades...
Meeting in Mexico: Tips, Advice from the Meeting Pros
Official warnings about travel to Mexico because of the H1N1 virus have been lifted. And tourism officials are doing all they can to show meeting planners why Mexico belongs back on their short lists of meeting sites...
MPI to Meeting Planners: Get Down to Business
Speakers set a more subdued tone than in past years at the opening general session of Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference on Sunday...
Ferguson Tapped at Destination DC
Elliott Ferguson has been named president and chief executive officer at Destination DC, the convention and visitors bureau for Washington...
New Tool for Finding Green Meeting Suppliers
Green Meeting Industry Council has launched an online directory to help planners search for suppliers that are focused on environmentally responsible business practices...
Cities Turn Workers into Tourism Ambassadors
The Certified Tourism Ambassador program, launched in 2006 on the premise that the best way to market a destination is through its people, recently certified its 5,000th travel-industry worker...
Green Meetings Group Announces Oregon Chapter
The Green Meeting Industry Council is growing. The nonprofit organization has launched its first official affiliate organization, the GMIC Oregon Chapter, led by Megan Rooksby, American Express Corporate Meeting Solution...
Mobile Tech Tools for Meetings and Trade Shows
The advent of the iPhone two years ago was a game-shifter. Rich mobile Web browsers with wireless broadband Internet access (in the iPhone and its multitude of clones) are now in the pockets or purses of most business travelers...
PCMA’s Ramsborg Appointed Professor at Kendall College
Glen C. Ramsborg, PhD, CMP, senior director, education, Professional Convention Management Association, and longtime medical meeting planner, is leaving PCMA at the end of the month to take a position as professor, Les Roches School of Hospitality Management, Kendall College, Chicago...
Trade Show Auctions Off Space on eBay
With a trade show that has long been sold out, one event producer decided to auction off the last spot for charity–on eBay...
Exhibitions See Declines in 2009
The majority of exhibition producers are seeing their events shrink this year, and many are employing new strategies to try to boost the numbers...
PCMA and ACTE Form Strategic Alliance
After two years of consulting with each other on the content for their annual meetings, the Professional Convention Management Association and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives announced plans for a strategic alliance...
Airlines Add Fees on Top of Fees
Airlines, in a seemingly never-ending bid to supplement their revenues, are adding yet again to an already dizzying array of fees...
Starwood Points Become Cash for PCMA Members
The Professional Convention Management Association has teamed up with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide to offer a program that allows PCMA members to use Starpoints toward the purchase of PCMA offerings...
Marketing Gets Creative in Vegas and Indy
Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives...
The Active Network Unveils New “OnDemand” Event Management Tools
The Active Network Inc. has released ActiveEvents OnDemand, a scalable, Web-based event management solution for meeting professionals...
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