Hoteliers Urge Lawmakers to Dial Down Rhetoric
Ten top hotel companies and the U.S. Travel Association banded together to buy advertising space on two prominent news Web sites read by U.S. legislators in an attempt to get their message out about the repercussions of negative rhetoric for the meetings and events industry....
ASAE Economic Impact Study: Belt-Tightening Ahead
ASAE and The Center’s new economic impact study on how 8,500 members of 97 associations are reacting to today’s economy came up with some expected results—past attendance is the best predictor of future plans, for example—but there also were some surprises. ...
Coalition Plans P.R. Tool Kit for Meeting Industry
Included in the U.S. Government’s huge stimulus package, known as The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, are rules on executive compensation and “luxury expenditures”—including meetings—for companies that receive government bailout money...
Travel Association Foundations Merge
Destination Marketing Association International and U.S. Travel Association have merged their foundations. ...
Year-end ’08 Hotel Performance Results Released
The world’s four regions of the hotel world—the Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Middle East/Africa, as analyzed by STR Global, reported mixed year-end results for 2008, although no city reported an increase in occupancy....
Australia’s Bush Fires Spare Melbourne
AIME 2009, the 17th Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, unfolded this week in Melbourne, Australia while the region’s devastating bush fires still raged in more remote areas of the state of Victoria. ...
Meeting Professionals Try to Negate the AIG Effect
Meeting Professionals International did a lot right at the MeetDifferent conference in Atlanta this week...
MPI Panelists Assess Hotel Outlook: The Perfect Storm
When Meeting Professionals International first brought a panel of industry experts together for a frank discussion on the meetings market last August at its World Education Congress in Las Vegas, concern about the economy predominated the conversation. ...
Fire Destroys Two Conference Centers; IACC Seeks to Help
Raging bush fires in Australia last Saturday completely destroyed two conference centers, The Cumberland Marysville and the Marysville Country House, located in the Yarra Valley northeast of Melbourne. ...
E-Petition Launches in Support of Meetings
Negative publicity has been churning in the media around the meetings and incentives industry because of the perception that events organized by companies receiving emergency relief money from the federal government were inappropriate. ...
Industry Response to Meeting Restrictions Shifts into High Gear
In a hastily called, but packed session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, being held in Atlanta this week, Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, and Jonathan Howe, JD, president, senior partner, Howe & Hutton Ltd., chief legal counsel for MPI, outlined the meeting industry's response to U.S. Government efforts to curtail the meetings, events, and incentive travel programs of companies receiving funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program...
MeCo Listserv to Incorporate as Association
The Meetings Community, the three-year-old, volunteer-driven meetings-industry listserv and Web site, plans to incorporate as a non-profit association before the end of the year....
MPI’s MeetDifferent Tackles New Treasury Regs, More
How to survive the current economic crisis was a running theme of the opening general session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, which kicked off on Sunday. ...
Industry Speaks Out On Meetings Oversight
New oversight regulations for financial institutions that receive money from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program has the meetings industry speaking out to defend the value of conferences and events. ...
Meeting Discounts in Hawaii and New Orleans
To mark Hawaii’s 50th anniversary of statehood, the Hawai‘i Convention Center is offering meeting planners quite a deal. ...
Scypinski, Shea Join ConferenceDirect
Two hotel industry veterans, Dave Scypinski and Fred Shea, have recently joined meeting planning company ConferenceDirect as senior vice presidents....
Solar (and Perhaps Wind) Energy to Power Atlantic City Convention Center
When you think of “green” and the environment, Atlantic City, N.J., is probably not the first place that comes to mind. ...
Global Events Partners Acquires Atlanta Arrangements, Appoints GEP Utah CEO
Global Events Partners, a partnership of destination management companies, announced it has acquired Atlanta Arrangements Inc., a DMC that has been operating in Atlanta for 40 years...
Expansion and Light Rail Open in Phoenix
With an expanded convention center, a new 1,000-room hotel, and the grand opening of a light-rail system connecting the convention center to downtown, the suburbs, and the airport, Phoenix begins a new era as a convention destination....
Massachusetts Law Hits Medical Conventions
Pending legislation in Massachusetts that would ban gifts and giveaways at medical conventions and restrict pharmaceutical and medical device company marketing practices has caused at least one medical society to cancel a meeting in Boston and several others to scratch Boston off their lists of potential meeting sites....
Cleveland Picks Site for New Convention Center
After months of debate over the location of Cleveland’s new convention center and medical mart, Cuyahoga County commissioners and Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., the project's private-sector developer, announced last week that they would build the new development at the site of the current city-owned convention center site and its adjacent green space in downtown Cleveland....
Making Connections in Europe, Australia
There’s a new conference taking place in Europe that promises to offer an effective platform for sharing the trends and challenges in the meetings industry. ...
Airlines and the Economy: Hot Topics at PCMA
They may not be able to get you out of the dreaded middle seat, but the heads of two major airlines, speaking at the recent Professional Convention Management Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, told meeting planners that they want to help get their attendees to their next meeting. ...
Industry to Work Together to Prove Power of Meetings
Leaders from across the meetings industry gathered Monday in New Orleans to launch an advocacy and research initiative to determine the economic impact of the meetings industry. ...
New Online Application Required for Certain Overseas Visitors
As of yesterday, January 12, all nationals and citizens of Visa Waiver Program countries are required by law to obtain a travel authorization prior to traveling to the U.S., instead of filling out paper forms at the airport. ...
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