StarCite and Starwood Strike Partnership
Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly connect with Starwood’s sales automation system...
E-Business Card Device to Be Put to the Test
Mingle360’s handheld networking tool, MingleStick, has been generating some buzz since it debuted last year, but its most significant introduction to the meetings industry may be next month at TS2...
Administration Officials “Tuned In” to Meetings
The meetings industry has gotten the attention of the Obama administration and has a strong supporter in Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, according to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries...
ESCA’s Electronic ID Badges Launch at Georgia World Congress Center
On July 1, the Georgia World Congress Center will be the first convention center to roll out the Worker Identification System...
New Tool Analyzes Trade Show Investments
Exhibit Surveys Inc. has partnered with Constellation Communication Corp. to offer an online planning tool that walks exhibitors through setting objectives for their trade-show participation...
Digital Media on the Rise in Event Marketing
Digital media are becoming an increasingly important part of the marketing mix for corporate and exhibition management professionals...
Associations See Revenue Declines on the Near Horizon
Was attendance for your 2010 meeting up or down...
MPI to Honor Obama for America Campaign
Betsy Myers, chief operating officer and senior advisor for the Obama for America campaign, will take the stage on July 10 to accept Meeting Professionals International’s first RISE Award on behalf of her organization...
Meetings Industry Mourns Loss of Tony Carey
Tony Carey, CMP, CMM, U.K.-based writer, speaker, and consultant to the international meetings industry, died on June 2 at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer...
Shimasaki Joins DMAI
Christine Shimasaki, CMP, CDME, has been hired by Destination Marketing Association International as managing director of EmpowerMINT.com, a new version of the association’s online resource portal that includes a database of post-event reports, among other features. Shimasaki joins from the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, which she left in May after a downsizing...
Obama-Inspired Discounts in D.C.
The Obama administration has inspired Destination DC and the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to offer discounts to groups booking citywide conventions in the nation’s capital...
100-plus Associations Adopt Social Responsibility Principles
A little more than one year after ASAE &The Center for Association Leadership launched its Global Summit on Social Responsibility, approximately 100 associations have adopted the seven guidelines for socially responsible associations that were developed at the summit...
AmEx and Maritz Create MaXvantage: Total SMMP Solution
With the intention not just of helping companies to track and control their meeting spending but also to document and defend the reasons for their meeting choices, American Express Business Travel and Maritz Travel have joined forces to offer MaXvantage...
Secure Flight Takes Off
The Transportation Security Administration has finally begun implementing Secure Flight, after a controversial five-year gestation...
Delta To Bring Back Meeting Fares
Four years after discontinuing its Delta Meeting Network program, Delta Air Lines plans to roll out a new program that will offer special rates for meetings customers...
CIC Endorses CMP Study Course
Convention Industry Council has endorsed the Professional Convention Management Association’s online prep course as the “official study course” for CIC’s Certified Meeting Professional exam...
Senate Committee Passes Travel Promotion Act
The Senate Commerce Committee last week approved the Travel Promotion Act, a five-year plan to attract more international visitors to the United States...
The Gurus of Green Empower Planners, Cities
Aiming for a more recognizable brand and a sharper focus for their company, Amy Spatrisano and Nancy Wilson, co-founders of Meeting Strategies Worldwide, have renamed the company MeetGreen...
Disney Buys Land at National Harbor, Md.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ first and only stand-alone resort hotel, Ko' Olina, is under construction on the Hawaiian island of Oahu—but a second may not be far behind...
IACC Members Sign Code, Pledge Sustainable Business Practices
The International Association of Conference Centers has launched a Code of Sustainability to encourage its member properties to implement and follow environmentally sound practices...
Travel Advisories to Mexico Lifted, MPI Confirms Meeting
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted its advisory against non-essential travel to Mexico on May 15...
The First Goal of International Meetings: Clear Communication
“Meetings and events are first and foremost about communication. When communication breaks down, delegates are dissatisfied and events fail to achieve their goals...
Culinary Association Polls Members on Launch of New Meeting
Given the global economic climate, leaders at the International Culinary Tourism Association wondered if perhaps a new summit they were planning for 2010 should be a virtual event instead of a live one...
CEIR Reports Trade Show Decline in Q1 2009
The exhibition industry suffered big declines in the first quarter of 2009, dropping 11.6 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008...
Companies Exhibiting Less in 2009
The average exhibitor in the United States will exhibit at 12 shows this year, down from 14 in 2008, according to a new study by Skyline Exhibits...
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