TSA Changes Carry-On Screening Policy
The Transportation Security Administration has changed its x-ray screening policy for certain electronic items, and, if first reports are any indication, travelers trying to bring their electronics through airport security checkpoints could be in for a confusing time...
BTC Survey Finds Business Travelers Eager For RT
A Business Travel Coalition survey has found that 82 percent of survey participants want to see the airlines they do business with “embrace” the Registered Traveler program...
APEX Recommends Format for Meeting Contracts
Key findings from the APEX contracts report, released earlier this year by the Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange initiative, came to light at a recent webinar. The report recommends industry best practices for handling attrition and other contracting challenges, establishes guidelines on how to format a meetings contract, and creates standard definitions of meeting contract terminology and clauses...
E3 Show Scales Back, Changes Course
Some significant shifts have occurred in the event landscape of the electronic entertainment industry this year. ...
New David Riddell Memorial Scholarship
The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives and Marriott Individual Incentives have announced a new scholarship program in honor of David Riddell, Marriott International’s vice president of incentive and gift card marketing, who died last summer....
Confronted, JetBlue Backs Away from Convention Sponsorship
After public criticism from conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly about its sponsorship of a convention of left-wing bloggers, JetBlue Airways relented—sort of....
Maritz Launches New Solution to Quantify Meetings ROI
In a webcast July 25, Maritz announced the launch of its Meetings Effectiveness solution, a new approach to quantifying and improving the value of meetings and events...
Report From MPI-WEC, Montréal
Bruce MacMillan, CA, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, welcomed more than 3,700 attendees to MPI’s World Education Conference à la Montréal during Sunday’s opening general session....
Registered Traveler Expanding Quickly
Registered Traveler programs will be in place at 20 to 30 U.S. airports by the end of this year, and 50 airports by the end of 2008, predict executives from FLO Corp., one of five RT companies vying to capture their share of this burgeoning industry....
New alliance between VISA and Arcaneo
Today, strategic meeting management technologies have a low-tech side...
StarCite Launches Orbitz Alliance
By the first quarter of 2008, StarCite expects to have a new travel booking feature: a direct link to Orbitz for Business and Travelport for Business from its attendee-management application....
The Seller’s Market Strikes Again
Unless Osram Sylvania Inc. can get some quick relief from a Florida court, it’s going to have to find a different location for its national sales meeting, booked for October....
Cities Step Up to Become Accredited
Destination Marketing Association International (the former International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus) held its annual convention in Pittsburgh last week, where leadership announced several items of note for meeting planners....
New Accreditation Program for DMCs
The Association of Destination Management Executives, Dayton, Ohio, is rolling out a new accreditation program for destination management companies...
MPI Names 2007-2008 Board of Directors
Meeting Professionals International 2007-2008 leadership assumed their roles July 1, bringing in a board of directors led by Angie Pfeifer, CMM, assistant vice president, corporate meetings, travel and incentives, Investors Group Financial Services Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...
Getting the Royal Treatment
There are plenty of more modern activities for groups to enjoy in Scotland. ...
ASAE 2007 Preview: Meeting Education and More in the Windy City
High-profile speakers, including the inspiration for a major motion picture; educational sessions that help planners to become better leaders and managers; and a first look at one of the largest ballrooms in the world, are among the highlights of the American Society of Association Executives and Center for Association Leadership’s Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Chicago, August 11-15....
The Baltimore–Fort Worth Connection
The convention bureaus of Fort Worth, Texas, and Baltimore have formed an innovative partnership in which shared salespeople will sell both destinations, encouraging multiyear contracts using both cities. ...
SmithBucklin Debuts Innovation Center
SmithBucklin debuts the SmithBucklin Innovation Center to help associations increase revenue through new product and services development....
HCEA Creates Index of Top 100 Medical Meetings
Here is the list of organizations that have conferences, conventions, and trade shows included in the HCEA 100, the Healthcare Conventions and Exhibitors Association’s new index of the leading medical meetings. ...
Reno-Tahoe adds Airport Fast Lanes
Registered Traveler--a program designed to speed enrolled travelers through specially designated airport security lanes--is up and running at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada...
Growth Slows for Hotels But Rates Remain High
The U.S. hotel industry, which has functioned as a well-oiled machine for the past few years, now is in the midst of a relative slowdown expected to last at least until the end of 2008, according to a report by industry tracker Smith Travel Research. While hotels' financial fundamentals remain strong and rates high--and there is no reason to believe their profit parade will halt--the current dip is evident....
Raising Money for Homeland Security One Visitor at a Time
The Discover America Partnership is touting a new study that shows significant benefits to implementing a $10 visa waiver fee for visitors to the U.S. coming from England, France, Germany, and the 24 other “visa waiver countries.” ...
Another Passport Reprieve?
Following on the heels of a decision by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to temporarily suspend new passport requirements for U.S. citizens traveling by air within the Western Hemisphere, Congress is pushing to delay further passport requirements governing travel via sea and land....
MPI PEC-Europe: Passover Problem in 2008?
How far should meeting industry associations go toward accommodating their members’ religious and cultural practices and traditions when scheduling meetings and conferences? ...
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