Team San Jose Names New CEO
Two months after longtime leader Daniel Fenton resigned, Team San Jose hired Bill Sherry as its new chief executive officer. ...
Meetings Industry Executives Form Alliance
The chief executives of five exhibition industry organizations have formed an alliance through which they will meet regularly to explore opportunities to cooperate on matters of mutual interest...
AMCs Saw More Demand for Outsourced Meeting Services, More Jobs, in 2010
Not many organizations were hiring in 2010 as unemployment rates hovered just below 10 percent, but association management companies were bucking that trend...
Commentary: A Peak-Oil Survival Kit for Meetings
There was a moment during the Green Meeting Industry Council’s 2011 Sustainable Meetings Conference when more than 300 meeting professionals glimpsed the end of the world as they’ve known it....
Roger Dow Honored With Spirit of Hospitality Award
The meetings, travel, and tourism community paid tribute to Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, bestowing him with the Spirit of Hospitality Award....
New Digital Events Strategist Certification to Launch
The Virtual Edge Institute will launch a program in June to train and certify event marketers, meeting professionals, trade show managers, and others in the fast-growing—and fast-changing—field of digital events. ...
Commentary: More Work Ahead on Economic Impact
With the release of the Convention Industry Council’s economic significance study, U.S. meeting professionals can confidently claim to be part of an industry that contributes more to the national economy than auto manufacturing. ...
Meetings Industry Measured at $263 Billion, Says Major New Report
The new Economic Significance of Meetings to the U.S. Economy study estimates that meetings generated $263 billion in direct spending, supported 1.7 million jobs, and contributed $106 billion to the gross domestic product. ...
AIME 2011 Sees 32 Percent Increase in Visitors
The Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo in Melbourne, Australia, drew more exhibitors, too....
All-Inclusive Packages for Meetings: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
What's in and what's out when you book an all-inclusive property for a meeting?...
10 TTAB Recommendations for a Better Visa Process
International visitors to the U.S. increased about 10 percent last year compared to 2009, but the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board says changes in U.S. visa policy and customer service are needed....
Commentary: EventCamp Must Keep Evolving
The EventCamp conferences have covered a lot of ground since the group’s first meeting in New York in February 2010. But great success breeds greater expectations. ...
Introduction to International Meeting Contracts
Two meeting industry biggies release helpful international contracts document....
VAT Reaches Peak in United Kingdom
If you work with a VAT Reclaim company, do increases in Value Added Tax matter?...
Bigger and Busier: CEIR Says Exhibitions Show Positive Growth
Signs of economic improvement in the meetings and conventions industry continue to emerge, with the latest being year-end data on the health of the exhibitions industry. ...
Lessons Learned From Going Hybrid: Three Case Studies
At the Virtual Edge Summit in January, three association executives spoke about their inaugural 2010 hybrid events and the lessons learned from their first efforts....
Commentary: A Slight Overshoot on Virtual Events
Virtual platform provider ON24 combined fact with fiction early this year when it critiqued the green performance of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show....
Labor Issues Cause Sociological Association to Pull Meeting from Chicago
The American Sociological Association chose to pull its 5,500-attendee annual meeting out of Chicago due to continuing hotel labor disputes...
Industry Designations: Which One Is For You?
The industry's array of certification programs offers association meeting professionals in-depth training as well as opportunities to benchmark their skills against others in the field...
Commentary: A "Shush" Heard Around the Room
It was a "shush" that resonated across a roomful of meeting and association professionals....
Your Chance to Be Fearless: Attend EventCamp February 11–13
Specifically designed for event professionals looking to integrate technology and new media into their meetings and special events, EventCamp is "a playground for creativity" and "an experiment in meeting planning."...
IMEX America Lands U.S. Travel as Promotion Partner
IMEX America, the new meeting and incentive industry exhibition launching in Las Vegas in October, has another high-profile partner, the U.S. Travel Association....
MPI Opens Web Content to Nonmember Planners
In an effort to bring more meeting planners into its online community, Meeting Professionals International announced today that it will offer free access to many of the services that, until now, were reserved for members only....
CIC Examines Costs of Event Spec Exchanges
Inefficient, inaccurate, and costly: That may be the best way to describe communications between meeting professionals and hotels, say leaders at the Convention Industry Council....
Sponsorship Dollars for Events Climb in 2010
For the many organizations that see sponsorships as a critical revenue stream, the news is good: Sponsor purse strings are loosening. ...
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